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Three Years’ War

CHAPTER II
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As to the losses of the English, I myself counted two hundred and three dead and wounded, and there may have been many whom I did not see.

In regard to our prisoners, as they marched past me four deep I counted eight hundred and seventeen.
In addition to the prisoners we also captured two Maxim and two mountain guns.

They, however, were out of order, and had not been used by the English.

The prisoners told us that parts of their big guns had been lost in the night, owing to a stampede of the mules which carried them, and consequently that the guns were incomplete when they reached the mountain.

Shortly afterwards we found the mules with the missing parts of the guns.
It was very lucky for us that the English were deprived of the use of their guns, for it placed them on the same footing as ourselves, as it compelled them to rely entirely on their rifles.


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