American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 290
ll an easy prey, from theweakness of the garrison. Madame La Tour, though left with only a handful of men, wasresolved to defend the place to the last extremity. A determination, says Haliburton inhis history of Nova Scotia, which she maintained with so much spirit during the threefirst days of the… … MADAME LA TOUR A PRISONER AT PENOBSCOT. DRAWN BY W. L. SHEPPARD. AMERICAN ART 749 Charnise, who supposed from their vigorous defence, that the number of soldiers must havebeen greater than he had been led to believe, dreaded the idea of being twice repulsed bya woman, and proposed a capitulation,…
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