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Slight preparations only had been made for its defence, and but scarcely a minute had elapsed before he saw the red-coats, flanked by the blue-jackets, climbing up the embankment, and bounding like red and blue balls over the parapet. At first the pirates gave way, allowing the entrance of the whole force, and from the height he could clearly see all that was going forward in the inside.
For some time, the crowd being considerable and noisy, they walked in silence. At the time we write of, Portsmouth was ringing with martial music and preparations for war. At all times the red-coats and the blue-jackets are prominent in the streets of that seaport; for almost the whole of our army passes through it at one period or another, either in going to or returning from "foreign parts."
"O ay, I ken a' about it it was a Hieland loon gied the letter to that lang-tongued jaud the gudewife there; I'll be sworn my maister ken'd naething about it. But he's wilfu' to gang up the hills and speak wi' Rob; and oh, sir, it wad be a charity just to send a wheen o' your red-coats to see him safe back to Glasgow again whether he will or no And ye can keep Mr.
Both men were soon all red, but Dearsley Sahib was much more red than the other. Seeing this, and fearing for his life because we greatly loved him some fifty of us made shift to rush upon the red-coats.
"Nay, nay, Frank," said the peaceful Mrs Willders, "you must not say `better ends, because it is a great and glorious thing to defend one's native land." "A very just observation," said Miss Tippet, nodding approval. "Why, mother, who would have expected to hear you standing up for the red-coats in this fashion?" said Frank.
This flat, flourishing, easy country never could have looked more rich and prosperous than in that opening summer of 1815, when its green fields and quiet cities were enlivened by multiplied red-coats: when its wide chaussees swarmed with brilliant English equipages: when its great canal-boats, gliding by rich pastures and pleasant quaint old villages, by old chateaux lying amongst old trees, were all crowded with well-to-do English travellers: when the soldier who drank at the village inn, not only drank, but paid his score; and Donald, the Highlander, billeted in the Flemish farm-house, rocked the baby's cradle, while Jean and Jeannette were out getting in the hay.
The frontiersmen west of the Alleghanies fled east over the mountains to Carlisle, Lancaster, and numbers even continued their flight to Philadelphia. Pontiac was making good his threat that he would drive the pale-faces back to the sea. But Forts Niagara and Pitt were still in the possession of the "red-coats," as the British soldiers were often called by the forest "redskins."
"The red-coats had got back to Boston, but we cooped them up. Our company was in Colonel Knowlton's regiment. I carried the flag, which said, Qui transtulit sustinet. I don't know anything about Latin, but those who do say it means that God who hath transported us hither will sustain us; and that is true, Paul.
Again, a little nearer, were some of the persevering ones men who still hold on in the forlorn hopes of a check all dark-coated, and mostly trousered. Then came the last of the red-coats Tom Washball, Charley Joyce, and Sam Sloman, riding well in the first flight of second horsemen his lordship's pad-groom, Mr. Fossick's man in drab with a green collar, Mr.
The people growled at the sight of the red-coats; the armed men of the Committee stood undecided, not knowing what to do; and indeed this new influx so jammed the crowd together that, unorganised as they were, they had little chance of working through it. Then any of those who could see what was going on, knew at once that they were in a trap, and could only wonder what would be done with them.
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