Belt and braces here from 1794

[Thursday] Nov.13

"This day a flag of truce was announced from Nimeguen, by a French trumpeter; on being answered from our piquet at the village of Lent, opposite that place, a French officer, attended by a trumpeter and servant, came in a small boat across the river...

During the time the French officer with the flag remained on our side of the Waal, both sides the river were covered with British and French soldiers, who during the truce could with propriety satisfy their curiousity in having a complete view of each other. The trumpeter and servant who came in the boat, landed on the beach but were not permitted to go into the village.....

A flag of truce going from our side a short time after, met with exactly the same reception from the French..."

A Journal Kept in the British Army from the Landing of the Troops under the Command of Earl Moira, at Ostend, in June 1794, to their Return to England the Following Year," London, 1796.