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Updated: May 31, 2025
"The Indians are preparing to show a white flag," shouted an artillery-man from his station in one of the embrasures below. The governor and his officers received this intelligence without surprise: the former took the glass from Captain Erskine, and coolly raised it to his eye.
The fighting of Petit was contrary to all rule; but I think that he was a splendid artillery-man.
Almost immediately on passing the gate, we found an old artillery-man, who undertook to show us round the castle. Only a small portion of it seems to be of great antiquity. The principal edifice within the castle wall is a palace, that was either built or renewed by James VI.; and it is ornamented with strange old statues, one of which is his own. The old Scottish Parliament House is also here.
The crowd collected there, and who watch even my tears, hoot me. Yesterday, to breathe the air, I showed myself at a window that looks at the court; an artillery-man on guard addressed the most revolting language to me.
A shell, in falling, buries itself in the earth, and, when it explodes, a large pit is made by the earth being blown about in all directions, large enough, sometimes, to hold three or four cart-loads of earth. The holes are circular. A French artillery-man being buried in his military cloak on the ramparts, a shell exploded, and unburied him.
If he experienced curiosity, the names of the two men which Stuart gave him afforded no clue as to the reason for their selection; one was a gun-smith, an armorer of uncommon skill, and Stuart knew that he was capable of dismounting and removing the cannon, without injury, through the tangled wilderness to Fort Prince George, should coercion overcome his resistance to the demands of the savages; the other, an artillery-man of long experience and much intelligence, himself adequately fitted to take command of the guns of the expedition, with a good chance of a successful issue.
By that method only can you boast of having conquered, and compel me to regard you as an honest reasoner, and a good artillery-man."
"The Indians are preparing to show a white flag," shouted an artillery-man from his station in one of the embrasures below. The governor and his officers received this intelligence without surprise: the former took the glass from Captain Erskine, and coolly raised it to his eye.
Just as an artillery-man spikes his gun, the Germans on their retreat to the Aisne River left in their wake no horse that might assist in their pursuit. As they withdrew they searched each stable yard and killed the horses.
They all knew him, and he loved them all, though naturally he had his favourites among them. There was Udo, a light-brown gelding, who could kneel down. And Zulu, almost black, would shake his head when asked if he were French, but nodded when one said, "A German artillery-man, aren't you?"
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