The guns had barely stopped moving before men seized their spokes to roll them back into battery. Others were clearing and thumbing the vents and bringing fresh charges and shot from the limbers. Lewis watched the 12pdr crews race each other through the motions of his modified, standardized drill. The Number Two men on the left dashed their sponges in water buckets before swabbing hot barrels, then handing their implements to the Number Five men, took the ammunition brought in a pouch and thrust it in the muzzle. The Number One men to the right of the guns had been waiting, rammer heads
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