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This fire exhausted the powder of the Americans, and when the British troops were brought up for the third attack, the Americans fell back, fighting desperately with gunstocks and stones. The results of this battle were two fold. It proved to the Americans that the British regulars were not invincible, and it proved to the British that the American militia would fight.
The girl drew back, then charged like a little fury on the gunstocks and bosoms of the troopers, pounding them with her fists. Unable to move this granite-like wall, she dashed back to the balcony eyrie, imploring Louise with both hands. "Arrest her!" said de Linieres to the soldiers. Brawny troopers pulled her back as she would have jumped out of the window to the flagging below and her Louise.
The expenses were prepaid for their carriage to Ujiji, but the goods had been purposely detained at this place by Sayd bin Salim since 1867 that he might satisfy his appetite for liquor, and probably fall heir to two valuable guns that were known to be with them. The white ants had not only eaten up bodily the box in which the guns were packed, but they had also eaten the gunstocks.
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