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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Why did you not send for me, Joseph? Sir, whenever you have occasion to make a list of the friends who will stand by you, right or wrong h-write the name of Citizen Agricola Fusilier at the top! Write it large and repeat it at the bottom! You understand me, Joseph? and, mark me, right or wrong!"
Fusilier was twice captured, and on the first occasion was sent to Fortress Monroe, where he, with fifty other prisoners from my command, was embarked on the transport Maple Leaf for Fort Delaware.
In the present debate, he had just provoked a sneer that made his blood leap and his friends laugh, when Doctor Keene, suddenly rising and beckoning across the street, exclaimed: "Oh! Agricole! Agricole! venez ici; we want you." A murmur of vexed protest arose from two or three. "He's coming," said the whittler, who had also beckoned. "Good evening, Citizen Fusilier," said Doctor Keene.
On the face of it one finds it difficult to understand why so momentous a decision, upon which the whole operations depended, should have been left entirely to the judgment of one who in the morning had been a simple Lieutenant-Colonel. 'Where are the bosses? cried a Fusilier, and the historian can only repeat the question. General Warren was at the bottom of the hill.
He escaped behind the counter and gladly remained there. "Citizen Fusilier," asked one of the gossips, "what has the new government to do with the health of the Muses?" "It introduces the English tongue," said the old man, scowling. "Oh, well," replied the questioner, "the Creoles will soon learn the language." "English is not a language, sir; it is a jargon!
Meanwhile on the extreme right the mounted troops under Dundonald were to cover the flank and to attack Hlangwane Hill, a formidable position held strongly by the enemy upon the south bank of the Tugela. The remaining Fusilier brigade of infantry was to support this movement on the right.
The walls are placarded with advertisements of sheep smearing and dipping substances; the leading ingredients of which appear to be tar and butter. A recruiting sergeant of the Scots Fusilier Guards is standing by the Clachnacudden Stone, apparently in some dejection owing to the little business doing in his line. Men don't come to the "Character" Fair to 'list.
Immediately there followed a fine scene of reunion, in which Monty explained our delay at Mudros; Major Hardy told us that he had been appointed Brigade Major to our own brigade, his predecessor having been killed on Fusilier Bluff by the whizz-bang gun; and the M.L.O. shone over all like a benignant angel. "Ah! Another for the East Cheshires," said he. "Can I have your name, Major?"
It would open up to the old braggart a line of retreat, thought the planter of the Cannes Brulées. But the idea of retreat had left Citizen Fusilier. "She is already married," said he to M. Honoré Grandissime, f.m.c. "She is the lawful wife of Bras-Coupé; and what God has joined together let no man put asunder. You know it, sirrah. You did this for impudence, to make a show of your wealth.
Cingolo Ridge itself, however, was almost beyond their reach. Lyttelton's Division with Wynne's Fusilier Brigade was to stretch out to the eastward and, by a wide turning movement pivoting on the guns and Barton's Brigade, attack the Cingolo Ridge.
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