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No Surrender!

CHAPTER 6: The Assault Of Chemille
15/31

The stones were speedily removed from the shattered doors of the church, mass was celebrated, and the peasants returned thanks for their great victory.
The gains were, indeed, considerable.

Three thousand muskets had fallen into their hands.

They had recaptured the guns that they had lost, and taken twelve others.

Their own losses had been heavy--eighteen hundred men had been killed, and a great number wounded.

But of this, at the time, they thought but little; those who had died had died for their country and their God, as all of them were ready to do, and how could men do more?
On the Republican side, General Duhaus had been very dangerously wounded, and most of Berruyer's principal officers killed.
A council of war was held the next morning, at Chemille.


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