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Updated: June 19, 2025
A single gun, the 4.7 howitzer upon Surprise Hill, was the objective. Again there was the stealthy advance through the darkness, again the support was left at the bottom of the hill, again the two companies carefully ascended, again there was the challenge, the rush, the flight, and the gun was in the hands of the stormers. Here and only here the story varies.
But, by shutting himself up in the fortress, he transgressed one of the first rules of national war that the monarch should never be compelled to stand a siege. Tippoo, in the field, might have escaped, to wait a change of fortune; but within walls he must conquer, or be undone. On the 4th of May, at one in the afternoon, the stormers, commanded by Baird, advanced.
Two columns of attack will be formed by the senior sophisters of the Old Guard, and a forlorn hope of the "cautioned" men at the last four examinations will form, under the orders of Timothy O'Rourke, beneath the shadow of the dining-hall. At the signal of the dean's bell the stormers will move forward. A cheer from the united corps will then announce the moment of attack.
The most worthy high priest was in a golden robe, and wore the cap of Amenhotep with its regal serpent. Herhor looked at the enormous masses of people who surrounded the temple, and bending toward the band of stormers, he said to them, "Whoever ye are, right believers or unbelievers, leave this temple in peace, in the name of the gods I summon you."
In turn the bravest and the boldest would leap into the whizzing flame, and the taunting cheers of the enemy triumphed in derision at the effort. "Stormers to the front!
All the guests were streaming out from dinner, and he became entangled with a group of 'English Grundys' discussing a climbing accident which had occurred in Switzerland. He listened, feeling suddenly quite sick. One of them, the short grey-bearded Grundy with the rather whispering voice, said to him: "All alone again to-night? The Stormers not back?"
The contingent which the city sends to the wars bears itself as well as those of any of the barons." "See!" the boy interrupted, "they are going to charge again. Their leader has himself seized the flag and has swung his shield behind him, just as a knight might do if leading the stormers against a place of strength. Let us stop till we see the end of it." With a shout of "Aldgate!
On the twenty-third, Montmartre's bloody shambles show how merciless are the stormers. Dombrowski lies dead beside his useless guns. All hope is lost. Murder and pillage reign in Paris. Behind their doors, barricaded with the heavier furniture, the family of Aristide Dauvray invoke the mercy of God. They are led by Pere Francois, who thinks the awful Day of Judgment may be near.
"The night before the assault the 24th of July, if my memory serves me right the sappers were pushing forward the mines with all despatch. Three immense globes were in readiness beneath the walls, and some minor details were only necessary to complete the preparations. The stormers consisted of four British and three German regiments, my own, the Welsh Fusiliers, being one of the former.
"I have been employed as acting aide-de-camp to General Crawfurd," said I, hesitatingly. "Is that your staff uniform?" said he, as with compressed brow and stern look he fixed his eyes upon my coat. Before I had time to reply, or, indeed, before I well knew how to do so, a gruff voice from behind called out, "Damn me! if that ain't the fellow that led the stormers through a broken embrasure!
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