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"You take that money you and your gang of black-flaggers that has captured this town on the high seas and you rub it onto your carkisses where it will do the most good," snorted the Cap'n. "Light cigars with it feed it to your elephant send it up in a balloon I don't give a kihooted dam what you do with it. But don't you try to enlist me under the skull and cross-bones!"
Indeed, I question whether he could run up much higher than a cat. "We are to start this evening, and shall be there by midnight. The elephants have gone on ahead." At sunset the party started. It consisted of Ramajee Punt, one of his favourite officers, and a score of soldiers. An officer had already gone on, to enlist the services of the men of two or three villages as beaters.
It included many cavaliers of birth, and well-tried soldiers, besides a number who, having great interests at stake, as possessed of large estates in the country, had left them at the call of government, to enlist under its banners.13 His infantry, besides pikes, was indifferently well supplied with firearms; but he had nothing to show in the way of artillery except three or four ill- mounted falconets.
For such a friend, he could go through all dangers and win his way to victory. For him he would live, and for him he would die, if need be, to save his country. "Go, my son, your country calls you, and God will take care of you," said his mother in the morning, when he told her that he thought it his duty to enlist.
Brown, who visited Irving in that year, sought in vain to enlist the service of the latter, who, then a youth of nineteen, had a little reputation as the author of some humorous essays in the "Morning Chronicle" newspaper. Charles Brockden Brown died, the victim of a lingering consumption, in 1810, at the age of thirty-nine.
The surrender of Dover came to fill his cup of joy, for Richard and Amaury of Montfort had sailed with the Earl's treasure to enlist foreign mercenaries, and it was by this port that their force was destined to land. But a rising of the prisoners detained there compelled its surrender in October, and the success of the royalists seemed complete. In reality their difficulties were but beginning.
She had four children three sons and one daughter of whom one only, Mr. Charles Francis Adams, survived her. It is related, as evidence of her good sense, that on one occasion Mrs. Mason, of Analostan Island, called, accompanied by two or three other ladies belonging to the first families of Virginia, to enlist Mrs. Mrs.
"Our job is to save the country, and to do that we've got to win battles. But you can't win battles without armies, and if men won't enlist of their own will they've got to be compelled. What use is a second term to me if I have no country.... You're not weakening on the policy of the draft, Mr. Stanton?" The War Minister shrugged his shoulders. "No. In March it seemed inevitable.
Then slowly rising, and drawing on his gloves, he said, "Well, at least you so far reconcile my honour towards aiding your research, that you now inform me you mean no ill to the exile." "Ill! the restoration to fortune, honours, his native land!" "And you so far enlist my heart on your side, that you inspire me with the hope to contribute to the happiness of two friends whom I dearly love.
But, as it proved, these men vastly preferred to enlist in units which were not associated with the avowedly Unionist Division, all of whose battalions belonged to one or other of these three regiments; and the 49th Brigade was not nearly up to strength.
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