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Both orders were executed with spirit and vigor. Charge of the Dragoons. It would have been difficult to find more unfavorable ground for cavalry; nevertheless the dragoons rode against their foes at a gallop, with broad-swords swinging, the horses dodging in and out among the trees and jumping the fallen logs.
Wull, here was all these here men awaitin', zum wi' harses, zum wi'out; the common volk wi' long girt guns, and tha quarlity wi' girt broad-swords. Who wor there? Whay latt me zee.
The officers' quarters were all below decks; and, although it was then the middle of winter, Frank found it rather uncomfortable in his bunk. During the two weeks that elapsed before the ship was ready to sail, the time was employed in getting every thing in order in drilling at the great guns, and with muskets and broad-swords.
This I was very glad of, you may be sure; and about the latter end of December, which was our second harvest of the year, I reaped my corn. I was sadly put to it for a scythe or a sickle to cut it down, and all I could do was to make one as well as I could out of one of the broad-swords, or cutlasses, which I saved among the arms out of the ship.
While the right pressed on with their bayonets, brigadier Murray briskly advanced with the troops under his command, and soon broke the centre of the enemy: then the High landers, drawing their broad-swords, fell in among them, with irresistible impetuosity, and drove them with great slaughter into the town, and the works they had raised at the bridge of the river St. Charles.
At the upper end of the room, were a couple of boys, one of them very tall and the other very short, both dressed as sailors or at least as theatrical sailors, with belts, buckles, pigtails, and pistols complete fighting what is called in play-bills a terrific combat, with two of those short broad-swords with basket hilts which are commonly used at our minor theatres.
Bang! went the guns; whack! went the broad-swords; thump went the cudgels; crash! went the musket-stocks; blows, kicks, cuffs; scratches, black eyes and bloody noses swelling the horrors of the scene! Thick thwack, cut and hack, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, head-over-heels, rough-and-tumble! Dunder and blixum! swore the Dutchmen; splitter and splutter! cried the Swedes.
Tickels received a blow on the head that brought him to the ground, and a voice cried out "Broad-swords and bomb-shells! I am just in time!" While the libertine lay sprawling upon the carpet, Fanny turned to thank her deliverer; and what was her astonishment and joy when she beheld the wrinkled, care-worn face, and odd, shabby garments of Corporal Grimsby. The Rescue.
It is warm, too, and brilliantly sunny. On gazing at these tall grey rocks, with the bright green patches here and there, and an occasional red-tiled hut, one almost expects to see a fleet of daring rovers dash out of a sequestered bay, with their long yellow hair, and big blue eyes, and broad shoulders not to mention broad-swords and ring-mail and battle-axes.
There the mounted riflemen and the dragoons smote with their "long knives," or broad-swords for the gates of the fort were not opened, and the walls proved only a death-trap. The Battle of Fallen Timbers was over in about an hour. The Americans lost thirty-eight killed, one hundred and one wounded. The loss of the Miamis and their allies numbered several hundred.
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