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Page 66
... wounded . All was then over , and cans repulsed this final charge , and Baum himself the British forces surrendered . icans , attacked had taken thirty hours to march some twenty - four It was only just in time , for Breymann , who down ...
... wounded . All was then over , and cans repulsed this final charge , and Baum himself the British forces surrendered . icans , attacked had taken thirty hours to march some twenty - four It was only just in time , for Breymann , who down ...
Page 87
... wounded , but as the columns came up both burst through the down timber and swarmed pushed silently bayonet . up long , sloping embankments of the fort . The Brit- ish fought well , cheering loudly as their volleys rang , but the ...
... wounded , but as the columns came up both burst through the down timber and swarmed pushed silently bayonet . up long , sloping embankments of the fort . The Brit- ish fought well , cheering loudly as their volleys rang , but the ...
Page 88
... wounded . sla and very many A curious coincidence wounded , every one of the was that the number of the dead or disabled having suffered from the bayonet . dead happened to be exactly equal to the number attack by the English icing ...
... wounded . sla and very many A curious coincidence wounded , every one of the was that the number of the dead or disabled having suffered from the bayonet . dead happened to be exactly equal to the number attack by the English icing ...
Page 105
... wounded . Sterrett , having no orders to make captures , threw all the guns and ammu- nition of the Tripoli overboard , cut away remaining masts , and left her with only one spar single sail to drift back to Tripoli , as a hint fourteen ...
... wounded . Sterrett , having no orders to make captures , threw all the guns and ammu- nition of the Tripoli overboard , cut away remaining masts , and left her with only one spar single sail to drift back to Tripoli , as a hint fourteen ...
Page 121
... wounded , and realizing that he was doomed to defeat unless by some desperate effort he could avert it , he the signal to board . At the call the board- ers gathered , naked to the waist , black with pow- der and spattered with blood ...
... wounded , and realizing that he was doomed to defeat unless by some desperate effort he could avert it , he the signal to board . At the call the board- ers gathered , naked to the waist , black with pow- der and spattered with blood ...
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