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By 9.45, with the exception of a few guerrilla shots, the town was won, and the enemy driven out of the neighbourhood. The troops from the transports were landed before nightfall. July 26.
In the open they would, of course, have no chance with us but, as the fighting will be done in guerrilla fashion, from hills and precipices, our task will be no easy one. The guarding of the tremendous convoy we must take with us will, in itself, be extremely difficult." "Yes, I expect we shall get it hot.
These beautifully clean, trim, dignified people are always a pleasant feature in the varied picture. The Somalis are a clan by themselves. A few of them condescend to domestic service, but the most prefer the free life of traders, horse dealers, gunbearers, camel drivers, labour go-betweens, and similar guerrilla occupations.
The actions therefore resolve themselves into the encounters of small bodies and the snapping up of exposed patrols a game in which the Boer aptitude for guerrilla tactics gave them some advantage, though our own cavalry quickly adapted themselves to the new conditions.
On the bottom shelf, as Virgie had declared, were a few disconsolate tin pans; yet tacked to the door was a picture print of Mosby that dreaded guerrilla whose very name was a bugaboo in the Union lines. The littlest rebel flung back her head and laughed. "My, but you looked funny!" she cried to the somewhat disconcerted officer, pointing at him with her spoon.
Although Frank and his companions had heard the order, "No quarter to the Yankees!" the thought of taking vengeance upon those who, had they been the victors, would have shown no mercy, never once entered their heads they were more humane. With the surrender of the rebels the object of the expedition had been accomplished the guerrilla chief was their prisoner! Tom the Coxswain.
Other groups, bested, fled among the trees to carry on guerrilla warfare, emerging in sudden dashes to overwhelm isolated enemies. Half a dozen special policemen, hired by the Weasel Park management, received an impartial trouncing from both sides. "Nobody's the friend of a policeman," Bert chortled, dabbing his handkerchief to his injured ear, which still bled.
We did not stop till we got to the timber, but there was really no pursuit. The audacity of the thing had given the troops a taste of something new. They kept Hoy at Leavenworth for several months and then hanged him. This was the inevitable end of a “guerrilla” when taken prisoner. Among the Jackson county folks who insisted on their right to shelter their friends was an old man named Blythe.
A few days later this man was killed in a skirmish, and thus ended the life of a fiend whose name may be placed at the side of those of Boves and Morales, because of his delight in committing crimes. In the rest of the country the royalists were conducting guerrilla warfare, preventing the reunion of patriotic bodies and rendering the situation very critical for Bolivar.
Their surprise was complete, and abandoning their battery, they ran into the woods for protection. The Boxer rounded the point, all the while shelling the woods, and Frank, seeing the guns deserted, landed with his vessel and secured them. That guerrilla station was, for the present, broken up. So thought Frank, who ordered the pilot to proceed up the river until he found the Manhattan.
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