_The Forlorn Hope._--The "Forlorn Hope" is the body of men who volunteer
first to enter a besieged town, after a breach has been made in the
fortifications. That I know: but it is evidently some quotation, and if
any of your readers should be able to give any information as to its
origin, and where it is to be found, I should, as I said before, be much
obliged.