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Updated: May 9, 2025
Without maps, without knowledge, without instinct, he might almost as well have been blind. His careless, ignorant glance swept the eight or nine miles of shoreline of sandbar from above Island No. 10 clear down to the fresh sloughing above Hotchkiss's Landing, opposite the dry Winchester Chute in which deep-draft gun-barges had been moored fifty years or so before.
I am sorry our French friends do not come out, that you may teach them English. The Gazette will show you that our soldiers are getting into the habits of fighting. We heard of the miscreants' intentions on the islands; and I have sent over several gun-brigs, gun-barges, frigates, sloops, &c. and a few additional troops.
It was Paez who had led his Llanero cavalry so often to victory against the Spaniards, and who, as already related in these pages, had achieved the unique feat of capturing a flotilla of Spanish gunboats or, to be more accurate, gun-barges by means of this very cavalry.
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