there was no way to be certain of the full extent of their losses : hobbes killed before their eyes , and laurence had seen chenery 's midwingman hyatt dead ; chenery 's lieutenant libbley remembered the surgeon waley fallen also ; but another dozen at least had been heaved out after that first night , the rest of them too sick and dazed to recognize in dim lighting , and more had been left dead upon the field ; others still , they hoped , had slipped away in the general confusion , to leave at least some faint direction behind .