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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 404

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he dismounted dragoons thecrazy gate of the palisade went down with acrash, and with a mighty cheer the Americansswarmed into the inclosure. Back, on your lives! Ho. in the block-house there ! Fire on these rebels ! With his back firmly set against the block- house wall, his lifted sword flashing… … LOUIS grandpre rushed from the blockhouse—alone! besiegers rushed in—and that was all! Atthe door that shielded his craven garrison,—within the fort which, because he had no in-struction to surrender it, he deemed it his dutyto defend to the last,— Louis Grandpre fell. Long live King Ferdinand! he…

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