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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

CHAPTER XLIII
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We are done with the nation; henceforth we deal only with the knights.

English knights can be killed, but they cannot be conquered.

We know what is before us.

While one of these men remains alive, our task is not finished, the war is not ended.

We will kill them all." [Loud and long continued applause.] I picketed the great embankments thrown up around our lines by the dynamite explosion--merely a lookout of a couple of boys to announce the enemy when he should appear again.
Next, I sent an engineer and forty men to a point just beyond our lines on the south, to turn a mountain brook that was there, and bring it within our lines and under our command, arranging it in such a way that I could make instant use of it in an emergency.
The forty men were divided into two shifts of twenty each, and were to relieve each other every two hours.


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