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This youth was required to write a letter to his father stating that collusion existed between parties within and without the fortress, and that the traitors had plotted to induce Hideyori to make a sortie, whereupon the castle would be given up and Hideyori would be delivered into the hands of his enemies.
Paris cannot hold out many weeks longer, and after the two failures I feel sure that there will be no more attempts at a sortie, especially as all hopes that an army may come to our relief are now at an end." She found it more difficult to tell Cuthbert, but it was not necessary for her to begin the subject, for he noticed at once that she had not the usual nursing-dress on.
At last Teligny made a sortie at the head of a considerable force. A warm action succeeded, at the conclusion of which, without a decided advantage on either side, the sluice-gate in the fortress was opened, and the torrent of the Scheldt, swollen by a high tide, was suddenly poured upon the Spaniards.
Commencement of the siege of Badajoz Sortie by the garrison repulsed Lawrence takes a prisoner, who proves difficult of persuasion Lawrence poses as champion of the regimental grog, and is indulged in return with an uncomfortable spell of sentry He eventually triumphs Move to, and capture of Olivencia Separates from a faithful friend Return towards Badajoz Battle of Albuera.
Without a word, Sir Hubert and two others of the knights present turned, and briefly ordering their men-at-arms to follow them, descended the staircase to the courtyard below. Their horses were brought out, the men fell into rank, and the gates of the castle were thrown open. "Stand to arms!" Sir Cuthbert shouted to the archers. "They are going to attempt a sortie."
"I fancy," he said, "the troops have an idea that there are masses of the Communists assembled near the gates in readiness for a sortie, and they are firing to prevent their coming out, until they have fortified the bridge and the other points they have occupied." The firing continued for some time.
Thinking that Convers had made a sortie, the Indians ran off, and the scouts joined the garrison without loss. Champigny here speaks of Nelson as the most audacious of the English, and the most determined on the destruction of the French. Nelson's letter to the authorities of Boston is printed in Hutchinson, I. 338.
Should this be the case, serjeant, our sortie may be made at an earlier hour than that mentioned. I never will submit to such an insult." Captain Willoughby was too much aroused to waste many words; and, seizing his hat, he proceeded forthwith to take a look for himself. The stage, or gallery on the roofs, offering the best view, in a minute he and his two companions were on it.
But the old man only puffed the more placidly at his pipe, making no move to head a sortie. "Fair and easy, Cap'n Dick; fair and easy. There ain't no manner o' hurry, ez I allow. Whenst I've got to tussle with a wheen o' full redskins, and me with my stummick growed fast to my backbone, I jest ez soon wait till them same redskins are asleep.
When at the distance of sixty yards, we poured upon them the contents of our two guns; they were heavily loaded with grape-shot, and produced a most terrible effect. The enemy did not retreat; raising their war-whoop, on they rushed with a determination truly heroical. The guns were again fired, and also the whole of our musketry, after which a party of forty of our men made a sortie.
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