Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 401
garrison — well,even there he was uncertain. Most of themwere old and invalided soldiers who had longbeen strangers to a battle, and very many ofthem were little better than cripples — sorry-looking fellows all when it came to standingbefore a cavalry charge or facing riflemensfire. But upon them… … ??%;± < HE BADE HIS MEN STAND FAST FOR THE KING. or resistance than was his threatened post ofBaton Rouge. All about him, crowding into the very small-est show of authority and space the contractedlimits of the province he was set to guard,stretched the lands that the Americans hadbought from…
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