debandes

Updated: May 19, 2025

We, the debandes, were dismissed without pension: the only reward for our warlike achievements being a piece of "land scrip," good for the number of acres upon the face of it to be selected from "government land," wherever the holder might choose to "locate." The scrip was for greater or less amount, according to the term of the receiver's service.

Mayne Reid - The Wild Huntress: Love in the Wilderness