quatre-cents

Updated: August 5, 2026

I ran forward, pushing home the top cartridge on my clip, but I was too late. "A quatre-cents metres," L , the French commander, called, and then a volley was loosed off down that long dusty street our first volley of the siege. Our barricades were full of men here, and it was no use trying to push in.

- Indiscreet Letters From Peking : Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation