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Updated: May 11, 2025
Amidst the temple of the Briton the Saxon had reared the shrine of his triumphant war-god. Across the peristyle, theowes and swineherds passed to and fro: in the atrium, men of a higher class, half-armed, were, some drinking, some at dice, some playing with huge hounds, or caressing the hawks that stood grave and solemn on their perches.
In vain did Gordon seek to keep communications open. All that he could do was to hold stoutly to that last bulwark of civilisation. There were still some grounds for hope. The Mahdi remained in Kordofan, want of food preventing his march northwards in force. Against his half-armed fanatics the city opposed a strong barrier.
The garrison, headed by the usurper himself, endeavored to stem their inrush; but, taken by surprise, half-armed, and ignorant of the numbers of their assailants, they could not long withstand the determined onslaught of Jethro's men.
Below he heard the clash of arms, and the terrible guttural cries with which the Welsh always rushed into battle, and which echoed through the halls of Carregcennen like the trump of doom. It was a terrible moment for the young Englishman, alone, half-armed, and at the mercy of a merciless foe. He looked wildly round for some means of escape. The tread of many feet was on the stairs.
"That may be true, Garcia; but you know that when we were here for I was with the British army that marched through Salamanca the Spanish authorities were no more willing to assist than were the Portuguese; and not a single soldier with the exception of two or three thousand half-armed men under Romana joined, from the day we crossed the frontier to that on which we embarked to Corunna."
On the highest of the two mounds that nearest the Pentlands, and on the left hand of the main body was the greater part of the cavalry, under Major Learmont; on the other Barscob and the Galloway gentlemen; and in the centre Colonel Wallace and the weak, half-armed infantry.
There would be a terrible, fruitless massacre of our half-armed, untrained people, there would be in short, I have urgent business to discuss with Moses, urgent and immediate, to avert the heaviest misfortune ere it is too late." "What you fear has not escaped our notice," replied Hur, "and it is in order to guard against this peril that Moses has set forth on a dangerous quest."
The contest was short and fierce; the complete armour of the horsemen protected them on either side from wounds, not so unscathed fared the half-armed foot-followers of the Orsini, as they pressed, each pushed on by the other, against the Colonna.
However, they fought not for the right, but for the spoil; and when Roderick O'Connor sent to declare war against them, and inform them of the true character of their ally, they returned a scornful answer; and, with their heavy armor and good discipline, made such progress against the half-armed Irish kernes, that Richard Strongbow saw the speculation was a good one, and was in haste for his share.
There would be a terrible, fruitless massacre of our half-armed, untrained people, there would be in short, I have urgent business to discuss with Moses, urgent and immediate, to avert the heaviest misfortune ere it is too late." "What you fear has not escaped our notice," replied Hur, "and it is in order to guard against this peril that Moses has set forth on a dangerous quest."
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