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Won by the Sword: A Story of the Thirty Year's War

Won by the Sword: A Story of the Thirty Year's War

G. a. Henty

Paperback

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1523341408
ISBN13: 9781523341405
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 13 2016
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
A mounted officer, followed by two orderlies, was proceeding at a brisk trot from Paris to St. Denis, in October, 1639, when he came upon a large party of boys, who, armed with sticks, were advancing in something like military order against a wall on the top of a low hill. What are you doing? he asked the lad who appeared to be the leader. We are playing at war, sir. We are advancing against the fortress of La Motte. This is the regiment of Turenne. And who are you at other times? the officer asked with a smile. My name is Hector Campbell, sir. Then you are not French? No, sir; my father was an officer in the Scotch regiment. He was killed at the siege of La Rochelle. And who is taking care of you? I live with Angus MacIntosh. He was a sergeant in my father's company. He was badly wounded at La Rochelle, and not being fit for further service, he took a cabaret near the barracks. The officers are very kind. They allow him a sum for taking care of me. Of course I am often in barracks, and have learned the drill, and I have heard and read about battles and sieges, so I am chosen to command. And so you know something of the battles in which Turenne was engaged? I think I know about them all, sir, both in Holland and on the Rhine, and have seen plans of the battles. Of course this is not at all like La Motte, which was on the top of a high rock, so that when Turenne was ordered to attack with his regiment after the general's son had failed, he had to pass not only through a heavy fire, but through the huge stones that the enemy hurled down. It was grand; and he did well at all the other sieges. Then, again, there was Saverne. See how he fought there, and stormed the place when even the Swedes, who are good soldiers, had failed. I think he is going to be the greatest of our captains.

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