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"I have got them away from the enemy for this year," said Alexander; "and this I hold to be one of the best services that has been rendered for many a long day to your Majesty." During the period which intervened between the action at Warnsfeld and the death of Sidney, the siege-operations before Zutphen had been continued.
Steadily southward; and from Liegnitz, and the upland Countries, there will be news of Schwerin and it before long. Rain ending, there ensued a ringing frost; not favorable for Siege-operations on Glogau: and Silesia became all of flinty glass, with white peaks to the Southwest, whither Schwerin is gone. Shall we besiege Glogau, then? We have no siege-cannon here.
"I have got them away from the enemy for this year," said Alexander; "and this I hold to be one of the best services that has been rendered for many a long day to your Majesty." During the period which intervened between the action at Warnsfeld and the death of Sidney, the siege-operations before Zutphen had been continued.
I can imagine how Fatia Negra will laugh when he hears that the soldiers of six counties are hunting for him in the depths of the forests and tapping every rotten tree-stump in search of him while he is sitting comfortably in some large theatre and eyeing the ballet-dancers through his opera glass; but he will be very much surprised when, one fine day, without any preliminary siege-operations we shall tap at his own door and enquire: 'Is Fatia Negra at home?"
Thereafter, the story of the siege followed stereotyped lines except that the colossal nature of the fortifications entailed unprecedented sacrifice of life on the besiegers' part. The crucial point of the siege-operations was the capture of a position called 203-Metre Hill.
"I have got them away from the enemy for this year," said Alexander; "and this I hold to be one of the best services that has been rendered for many a long day to your Majesty." During the period which intervened between the action at Warnsfeld and the death of Sidney, the siege-operations before Zutphen had been continued.
Sergeant Wilkes, that amateur in siege-operations, had rightly prophesied from the first that the waste of life at the breaches would be wicked and useless until the hornwork had been silenced and some lodgment made there.
"I have got them away from the enemy for this year," said Alexander; "and this I hold to be one of the best services that has been rendered for many a long day to your Majesty." During the period which intervened between the action at Warnsfeld and the death of Sidney, the siege-operations before Zutphen had been continued.
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