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Through Three Campaigns

CHAPTER 7: Tales Of War
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Issuing on the other side, we came upon a plain about a thousand yards across.

Beyond this was a bridge, on fire.

The enemy were strongly posted in trenches and behind hedges.
"Grant decided to attack, and to try and save the bridge.

He advanced across the plain with two sections of ten men each, supported by another section of the same strength.

The rest of his force, consisting of forty men, he kept in reserve.
"I own that it seemed to me a desperately risky thing; for, from what we could see, we judged that the enemy were about a thousand strong.


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