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Updated: May 26, 2025
We spent the better part of a day in two of the forts which were fondly presumed to guard Maubeuge toward the north Fort Des Sarts and Fort Boussois; but Fort Des Sarts was the one where the 42-centimeter gun gave the first exhibition of its powers upon French soil in this war, so we went there first.
I don't care to see anything like that again even if it is my enemies that suffer it." He told it so vividly, that standing alongside of him before the tunnel opening I could see the procession myself those two hundred men who had drained horror to its lees and were drunk on it. We went to Fort Boussois, some four miles away. It was another of the keys to the town.
With these in their possession it didn't take them very long to compel the surrender of Fort Boussois, especially as the defenders had already been terribly cut up by the artillery fire. The Austrians must have been first-rate marksmen.
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