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navigateur et du mitrailleur par des plaques de blindage et, en l'air, nous ne pouvions rien les uns pour les autres. Et, au moment même où Arnaud m'annonçait sa blessure aux yeux, je recevais un violent coup de fouet au ventre. En une seconde, le sang colla mon pantalon et emplit mes mains. Fort heureusement, on venait de nous distribuer des casqu

The bloodiest combat unfolded at Chatterton’s Hill. In the first wave of attacks, Captain Alexander Hamilton, positioned with two fieldpieces on a rocky ledge, sprayed the invading forces with deadly fire, driving them back. After regrouping, the British grenadiers and Hessian soldiers forded the Bronx River and bravely clambered up the wooded slop

“All the real soldiers are dead,” she said. It was true. So it goes.

Now they have beaten me, he thought. I am too old to club sharks to death. But I will try it as long as I have the oars and the short club and the tiller.

It was dangerous, deadly, they said, for any man to go there.

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The people came out of their houses and smelled the hot stinging air and covered their noses from it. And the children came out of the houses, but they did not run or shout as they would have done after a rain. Men stood by their fences and looked at the ruined corn, drying fast now, only a little green showing through the film of dust. The men wer

Three years had taught the sergeant that war was more apt to bring out men’s worst qualities than their finest, but it did occasionally strike little sparks of decency from unlikely flints. Lieutenant Ramos was doing his best.