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Pioneers of the Old South

CHAPTER XIII
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But the Governor turned the tables on them.

He made himself captor, instead of being made captive.

Bland and his lieutenants were taken, whereupon their following surrendered into Berkeley's hands.
Bland's second in command was hanged; Bland himself was held in irons.
Now Berkeley's star was climbing.

In Accomac he gathered so many that, with those who had fled with him and later recruits who crossed the Bay, he had perhaps a thousand men.

He stowed these upon the ship of the ill-fated Bland and upon a number of sloops.


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