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If not this, then the military council, holden at Boston by the Earl of Loudon and other captains and governors, might be taken, his lordship in the great chair, an old-fashioned, military figure, with a star on his breast. Some of Louis XV.'s commanders will give the costume.
Fouquet, long since, rooted himself rather firmly into that important post; has a beautiful ring of fortified Hills around Landshut; battery crossing battery, girdling it with sure destruction, under an expert Fouquet, but would require 30,000 men to keep it, instead of 13,000, which is Fouquet's allotment. Upon whom Loudon is fully intending a stroke this Year.
The march was far swifter now than the rate that the settlers had maintained before the Indians had joined the party, and the little girl was added to the burden of one of the packhorses, but Odalie, light, active, with her native energy tense in every nerve, and with every pulse fired by the thought that each moment carried her nearer to the cannon of Fort Loudon and safety, kept step valiantly with the pedestrians.
On the 22d of January orders were issued assigning the Fourth Corps to quarters extending from Kingston to Loudon along the river and railroad. The Ninth Corps took post between Campbell's Station and Knoxville. A few small outposts further up the valley were maintained for observation. A brilliant cavalry combat near Sevierville on the 27th ended the active work under General Foster's command.
The "Great Warrior" declared that Willinawaugh's deeds spoke for themselves not in French, not in English, but in the Cherokee tongue in flame and in blood, in courage and in victory. The prisoner's scalp was no great matter in the face of the fact of Fort Loudon.
"It won't do, Loudon; it's nonsense, on the face of it! I don't say but what you and Nares did your best; I'm sure, of course, you did; but I do say, you got fooled. I say the stuff is in that ship to-day, and I say I mean to get it." "There is nothing in the ship, I tell you, but old wood and iron!" said I. "You'll see," said Jim. "Next time I go myself.
"That's the worst of all," said Jim, like a man in a dream, "I can't see how to tell him!" "What do you mean?" I cried, a small pang of terror at my heart. "I'm afraid I sacrificed you, Loudon," he said, looking at me pitifully. "Sacrificed me?" I repeated. "How? What do you mean by sacrifice?" "I know it'll shock your delicate self-respect," he said; "but what was I to do? Things looked so bad.
"Who knows?" said Soltikow; "the king of Prussia is accustomed to sell his defeats dearly. The entrance of an officer interrupted him. The officer announced General von Loudon. Soltikow arose, and advanced to the door to welcome the Austrian general.
A regiment was at work upon the bridge at Loudon. To diminish the number of mouths to be fed, Foster gave the "veteran furlough" at this time to several more of the regiments which had re-enlisted. Trustworthy evidence showed that Longstreet was quite as badly off as we were, and that he was not likely to move unless, like us, he was forced to do so to find forage.
I am not well acquainted with the armament of Fort Prince George," he declared, "but it may well chance that the cannon, captured by the Cherokees at so great a cost, may be disabled under a heavy fire and lost to Fort Loudon, which would then become mere intrenchments, to be leveled by a single brisk cannonade."
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