Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 251, Issue 1517William Blackwood, 1942 |
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Page 165
... attacks were made on the larger and less mobile troopers . At times ships seemed to disappear from sight in the fountains sent up by falling bombs . There was one attack in which two sticks of bombs exactly straddled us . Three on one ...
... attacks were made on the larger and less mobile troopers . At times ships seemed to disappear from sight in the fountains sent up by falling bombs . There was one attack in which two sticks of bombs exactly straddled us . Three on one ...
Page 203
... attack at dawn . They were divided into three contingents of about equal numbers . Kawiti advanced along the track from the south , Heke took the north , his object being to cut down the flagstaff yet again ; while the third party came ...
... attack at dawn . They were divided into three contingents of about equal numbers . Kawiti advanced along the track from the south , Heke took the north , his object being to cut down the flagstaff yet again ; while the third party came ...
Page 204
... attack anyone their chief ordered them to attack , no matter whether there was any just cause or not ; that they would fight furiously until the last man was killed , and that nothing could make them run away . Fear came like a cold fog ...
... attack anyone their chief ordered them to attack , no matter whether there was any just cause or not ; that they would fight furiously until the last man was killed , and that nothing could make them run away . Fear came like a cold fog ...
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