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Updated: June 13, 2025
There was almost a rebellion in school over the imprisonment of the successful general who had so bravely fought the battles of the snow-fort. Napoleon passed a day in the lock-up; then he was again summoned before the teacher who had thus punished him. "You are an incorrigible, young Bonaparte," said the teacher. "Imprisonment can never cure you.
Assaults, sorties, repulses, ambuscades were also of daily occurrence, and often with very sanguinary results; but it would be almost as idle now to give the details of every encounter that occurred, as to describe the besieging of a snow-fort by schoolboys.
"Learn to obey! Drag him to the rear, Lauriston." The fort was carried. But "General Thaw" was too strong for the young soldiers; and that night, a rain setting in, finished the destruction of the now historic snow-fort of Brienne School. Bouquet, smarting under what he considered the disgrace that had been put upon him before his playmates, accosted Napoleon that night in the hall.
Assaults, sorties, repulses, ambuscades were also of daily occurrence, and often with very sanguinary results; but it would be almost as idle now to give the details of every encounter that occurred, as to describe the besieging of a snow-fort by schoolboys.
Between these he built an arched passage, so that the two were thus connected, and the small hut formed a sort of inner chamber to the larger. "Now, dem done," said Maximus, surveying his work with a satisfied smile. "And very well done they are," said Frank. "See here, Eda, our snow-fort is finished.
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