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Fernando's riflemen had been waiting for this, and, with wild yells, they leaped the redoubts, deployed along the stone fences and houses and picked off the redcoats so rapidly, that they fled pell mell to their own works, glad to escape the bullets of those unerring riflemen. The cannonade kept up until long after midnight.
Hamilton got by me, and I saw him set a foot on the shoulder of a man, and jump on to the top of the redoubt. Why more or all were not killed seems to me a wonder. I think if the enemy had been cooler we had been easily disposed of. I saw the girl-boy leap down among the bayonets, and we were at once in a hurly-burly of redcoats, our men with and after us.
As for stout George Dale, and sturdy Baxmore, and facetious Joe Corney, with his comrades Moxey, Williams, and Mason, and Sam Forest, those heroes continued to go on the even tenor of their way, fighting more battles with the flames in six months than were fought with our human enemies by all our redcoats and blue-jackets in as many years, and without making any fuss about it, too, although danger was the element in which they lived, and wounds or death might have met them any day of the year.
On the distant heights across the valley he could see the redcoats. No doubt Montcalm had often pondered this possibility and had decided in such a case to attack at once before the enemy could entrench and bring up cannon. A rapid decision was now followed by rapid action. He had a moment's conversation with Vaudreuil.
Gilbert Stair has the right of it when he says there will be nothing to stop the redcoats now." I called to mind the resolute little handful under Captain Abram Forney, one of many such, he had told me, and would not yield the point. "There will be plenty of fighting yet, and we must go to bear a hand where it is needed most," said I. "Where will that be, think you? At Charlotte?"
Fernando, now that the nervous strain was over, sank back in the boat, almost completely exhausted. "Fernando, ye did it illegintly," said the young Irishman. "Will he die?" "Not unless the doctors kill him trying to dig it out." "I hope they won't." "What the divil's the difference? Before this toime next year, we'll be shootin' redcoats for sport."
This would never do, if they were to be successful; and so, on October 2, it was decided to give the supreme command to Colonel Cleveland. Before the army set out on the following day, the colonels told their men what was expected of them. "Now, my brave fellows," said Colonel Cleveland, "the redcoats are at hand. We must up and at them. When the pinch comes, I shall be with you."
He heard sounds, but only such as are usually to be heard in the woods at night-the chirping of crickets, the buzzing of the wings of insects, and the call of nightbirds. He heard nothing that would indicate the presence of human beings. "I guess there are no redcoats in these woods," he murmured after listening a while. "The British haven't advanced this far yet, likely.
The boy lived in these traditions quite as much as in those of the Revolutionary War into which they invariably glided in his perspective of history, the redskins and the redcoats being both enemies of his ancestors.
It was possible for us to tell by the shouts and yells that on a certain night Thayendanega's cowards had assembled in the British camp for a powwow, although they had taken good care not to let us see them going there, and Sergeant Corney said to me, as if he had a written programme of the entire proceedings: "To-morrow we will have redcoats in plenty at which to shoot." "Why do you say that?"
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