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On 16th March, when only irregular levies and detached bodies of tribesmen were in the vicinity of Khartoum, he sent out a force of nearly 1000 men, chiefly Bashi-Bazouks, but also some regulars, with a fieldpiece and supported by two steamers.
His hopes of a crown faded rapidly, and when the army reached Lisbon it had dwindled to not much more than four thousand effective men the rest being dead of dysentery, or on the sick-list from imprudence in eating and drinking while they found that they had made an unfortunate omission in their machinery for assailing the capital, having not a single fieldpiece in the whole army.
Bart made out a long fuse trailing three feet or more over the side of the old fieldpiece. He blew the punk to a bright glow. "Ready!" he called back merrily over his shoulder. The hillside vibrated with the flutter of expectant juvenile humanity and a vast babel of half-suppressed excited voices.
His hopes of a crown faded rapidly, and when the army reached Lisbon it had dwindled to not much more than four thousand effective men the rest being dead of dysentery, or on the sick-list from imprudence in eating and drinking while they found that they had made an unfortunate omission in their machinery for assailing the capital, having not a single fieldpiece in the whole army.
"Yes, and another beyond farther down amongst that ice-pack! Do you see?" "Where?" Mick Kennedy trained his one eye like a fieldpiece upon the locality suggested. "Where? Yes! I see them now both of them. Blair's own horse, if he had one, is probably in there too, somewhere." Meanwhile Stetson had been scrutinizing the spot on the river's face from which had come the puff of smoke.
His hopes of a crown faded rapidly, and when the army reached Lisbon it had dwindled to not much more than four thousand effective men the rest being dead of dysentery, or on the sick-list from imprudence in eating and drinking while they found that they had made an unfortunate omission in their machinery for assailing the capital, having not a single fieldpiece in the whole army.
It was at this moment of confusion and terror that Waverley remarked an English officer, apparently of high rank, standing, alone and unsupported, by a fieldpiece, which, after the flight of the men by whom it was wrought, he had himself levelled and discharged against the clan of Mac-Ivor, the nearest group of Highlanders within his aim.
The charge of powder was so great that it went off like a young fieldpiece, and the elephant fell upon his knees; but, again recovering himself, he turned and went off at such a pace that he left the herd behind, and in a few minutes I was within twenty yards of them; I would not fire, as I was determined to bag my wounded bird before I fired a single shot at another.
Perhaps it was the reputation for wiliness Forrest had earned which put the Yankee commander on his guard. There was no headlong chase down the ambush valley as they had hoped and planned to intercept. Instead, dismounted men came at a careful, suspicious pace, cored around a single fieldpiece, a small answer to their trap.
A Mexican fieldpiece, covered by a breastwork, raked the causeway from end to end, while from the heights of Chapultepec cannon of large calibre poured down a destructive fire. The infantry suffered terribly. It was impossible to advance along the narrow track; and when the guns were ordered up the situation was in no way bettered. Nearly every horse was killed or wounded.
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