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Updated: May 11, 2025
A boy not more than fourteen years of age, screaming like a little demon and discharging his arrows at full speed with wicked dexterity, rode at the head of this savage hourra of the Cossacks of the American desert. As the fierce child came on, Coronado saw him and recognized him with a mixture of wonder, dread, and hate.
Drums were beating somewhere in the distant forest shrill, treble drums and from every hill-side the hollow, harsh Prussian trumpets spoke. Then came a sound, deep, menacing a far cry: "Hourra! Preussen!" "Why don't you cheer?" faltered Lorraine, mounting the terrace. The artillerymen looked at her in surprise. Jack caught her arm; she shook him off impatiently. "Cheer!" she cried again.
There was a very thick fog, and suddenly shouts of "Hourra! Hourra!" were heard.
Loud and thundering sounds, such as the ringing of heavy bells, beating of drums, and firing of cannon, and the gothic hourra are requisite to move the phlegm that surrounds the tough heart of old John Bull. When the Algerines captured some of our vessels, and made slaves of the crew, a very high degree of sensibility was excited.
"Hourra! hourra!" rang over the desert, and once more the savage horsemen came down like eagles swooping upon their prey.
"'Hourra! cry the Russians, and there is all Russia assembled, a lot of brutes of Cossacks, that you never can come up with! It was country against country, a general stramash; we had to look out for ourselves. 'It was all Asia against Europe, as the Red Man had said to Napoleon. 'All right, Napoleon had answered, 'I shall be ready for them.
But though they all realized that it was necessary to get away, there still remained a feeling of shame at admitting that they must flee. An external shock was needed to overcome that shame, and this shock came in due time. It was what the French called "le hourra de l'Empereur." Some Cossacks on the prowl for booty fell in with the Emperor and very nearly captured him.
Very few men have sufficient force of mind not to succumb to this preliminary comedy, which is always cleverly played, and resembles the hourra raised by the Cossacks, as they advance to battle. Many husbands become irritated and fall into irreparable mistakes. Others abandon their wives.
As we passed some windmills, and came swinging down towards the western coast, soon after midnight, he gave a cheerful "Hourra!" and in reply to my stare, cried, "The wind, man! It's as dead as St. Magloire. Monsieur Torode will never get round La Hague like this." "It will come again with the sun, maybe," I said. "Then the quicker we get home the better," and we hurried on.
Hourra!" which so frightened men whose morale had been broken, that many of them fled abandoning their possessions and food. The false Cossacks, after stealing all they could would return to the camp before daylight and become once more Poles, ready to become Cossacks again on the next night. When this form of brigandage was disclosed, several generals and colonels decided to put a stop to it.
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