ouette

Updated: June 25, 2025

Danican had taken command only on the previous day, and the soldiers, believing that this order was but an act of arbitrary authority on his part, refused to move; and the bridge over the river Ouette, in front of Vihiers, remained unguarded save by a squadron of cavalry.

G. A. (George Alfred) Henty - No Surrender!: A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee