Now there had been left in the fort less than twenty soldiers, while the greater number of our cannon were on board the fleet for the purpose of killing the Swedes, in case they refused to give up their forts to us.
The Duke, informed of this, suddenly appeared before the walls, and took by assault the two forts of Newman Bridge, and Risbank, which defended Calais from the sea and from the shore respectively.
The only successes on the English side were the surprise of Axel on July 17, the reduction of Doesburg, September 12, and the taking of some of the outlying forts of the town of Zutphen.
Escaped from danger, he was a long time without giving up Azof, or demolishing his forts on the Black Sea.
Abandon all the forts now garrisoned by black men, take two hundred thousand men from our side and put them in the battle-field or corn-field against us, and we would be compelled to abandon the war in three weeks.
The forts thus seized had been put in improved condition, new ones had been built, and armed forces had been organized, and were organizing, all avowedly with the same hostile purpose.
I scarcely need to say that I consider the military forts and property, situated within the States which claim to have seceded, as yet belonging to the Government of the United States, as much as they did before the supposed secession.
Just after the adjournment of the Chicago Convention Sherman's occupation of Atlanta and the capture of the forts in the harbor of Mobile, were announced, seeming to intimate that the war had not been, up to that time, wholly a failure.
The larger of these forces was to capture the forts on the way from Albany to Montreal.
He crossed the Mississippi, which the Jesuits had been the first to reach, and pushed on to the far south, constructing forts in the midst of the most savage districts, and taking possession of Louisiana in the name of King Louis XIV.
He at once determined to recover the forts which had been lost, and proceeded to raise a militia.
The erection of these forts was no small cause of the breaking out of fresh hostilities.
While the disputes about the forts were carried on between the cabinets of France and England, the French prosecuted their encroachments in America with great boldness, which doubtless hastened the rupture between the two countries.
Many who had been exiled to the presidios of Ternate, Zamboanga, and other forts in these islands, began to come back to their homes.
Today when this is written (the year 676), he is castellan of the presidio and forts of Cavente [sc.
There they made a halt for a few days, that the baggage and sick might overtake them, who, overcome by diseases, or the length of the way, had been left behind in all the forts of Thrace.
A general alarm, nevertheless, spread over the whole coast, and all the forts and villages, with the exiles whose homes were there, united in sending a common embassy to the Achaeans.
Flaccus, leaving Contrebia, led his legions through Celtiberia ravaging the country; he stormed many forts until at length the greatest part of the Celtiberians surrendered.
Encouraged by the surrender of this place, which was earlier than he hoped, and perceiving what terrors his march diffused, by taking advantage of the like fears, he reduced eleven other forts to submission.
The exiles especially kept that state in alarm: of whom great numbers resided in the maritime forts on the coast of Laconia, all which had been taken from the Lacedaemonians.
Let him not remove any arms out of those towns, lands, or forts which he may evacuate; if he hath removed any, let him honourably replace what he ought to make good, and in the place that he ought.
The Athamanians claimed a restoration of liberty, and the forts Athenaeus and Poetneus.
The fortswere well constructed, and provided against the chances of sudden and desperate assaults.
Several regiments of the rebel reserves constantly occupied the forts and trenches, and guarded closely every avenue.
These two forts effectually closed the rivers on which they were located, and were only twelve miles apart, so that they could cooperate with each other in cases of emergency.
Forts Jackson and St. Philip guarded its lower part, and covered New Orleans; though these were nullified by the daring of Farragut, and the city fell early in the war.
Farragut thundered into Mobile Bay with his squadron, and, having defeated or sunk the rebel fleet, captured all the forts which covered Mobile.
While the people rapturously shouted forth their joy at the signal success of our arms at Forts Henry and Donelson, they hardly comprehended the magnificent results of these victories.
Commodore Farragut, with perfect success and comparative ease, passed the forts below New Orleans, after the chief of the naval force had despaired of their reduction.
The entire Confederate line of defense in Kentucky and Tennessee having been lost with the surrender of Forts Henry and Donelson, its various posts became untenable.
Can it be successfully maintained that another in the place of Mr. Benjamin would have prevented the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson, of Roanoke Island, of Newbern, of Memphis, of Island No.
He urged a thorough exploration of the Western frontier, and important changes in the arrangement of defenses against the Indians, demonstrating the inefficiency of the system of small forts for the purposes of war with the savages.
Yet, when Major Anderson, in positive violation of this agreement, removed his forces from the weaker forts to Fort Sumter, Mr. Buchanan refused to order him back.
Moreover, in the present temper of the dominant party in the United States, a large majority of which favored coercion of the South back into the Union, Federal occupancy of these forts was a menace to the safety of the Confederacy.
The storming of one of its strongest forts (Teneria) on the 21st of September was a desperate and hard-fought fight.
While Marion was operating against Forts Watson and Motte, Sumter, with like success, had besieged the British posts at Orangeburg and Granby.
This post was the principal depot of the convoys from Charleston to Camden, and sometimes of those destined for Forts Granby and Ninety-Six.
The desire, several times already expressed, to hold possession of the forts in Charleston harbor now took the form of a demand.
In the same letter he also expressed the opinion that the people of South Carolina intended to seize all the forts in Charleston harbor by force of arms as soon as their ordinance of secession was published.
Their prudence told them that they ought to prepare for such an emergency by at once taking possession of all the arms and military forts within their borders.
He shall kill with the sword your daughters in the field; and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.
The strongest forts will yield at length, And so our virtues must.
Grant, General, capture ofForts Henry and Donelson by, i.
They dwell beyond the Tigris, possessing for the most part forts and garrisons, but also a few cities, among them Ctesiphon, in which there is a palace.
Pompey, when he had accomplished what has been related, went again to the Pontus and after taking charge of the forts returned to Asia and thence to Greece and Italy.
Colbert, then minister, expressed his surprise to Frontenac that the forts of Pentagoet and Gemisee had been taken and pillaged by a freebooter.
Some came trudging to the forts on foot, with large packs of peltries upon their backs.
The farmers and their families, abandoning everything, fled from all directions to the forts within their reach.
In the meantime the Dutch merchants erected and garrisoned two small forts to protect themselves from such piratic excursions as that of captain Argal.
Soon one or two small forts were erected and garrisoned on the river for the protection of the traders.
The land, already given to the Dutch as an indemnity, and now again conquered by the sword, the two forts belonging to the Indians included, became the property of the Christians.
He gave very particular Information concerning the two Forts of Talangame.
An Army was now forming of all these Sorts of People, by Order of the King, to attempt recovering the Forts of the Moluccos.
The Forts were not erected in either of them, because they should not be remote from the King's Court.
This Accident prov'd a very great Obstacle, because it diverted our Men from their double Design of pressing both Forts at the same Time, so that the very Commanders were forc'd to ingage.
Those in the Forts had not the Courage to fall in upon the Rear, tho' they pour'd a Volley upon the Forces of Tydore and Bachian, but with little Harm.
Degrees and a half Latitude, Sarmiento was of Opinion, Forts might be erected on the two Capes to secure the Passage.
On that day Vicksburg was given up to the Union forces, with all its forts and all its men.
But in the end such great forts were built at Vicksburg and Port Hudson and other points that the Confederate government held the river in a tight grasp.
But strong forts had been built along that river and armed boats were on its waters, and the Yankees of the North might find it as hard to get there as the British did.
Here there were forts to pass; and the ships were slowed up.
Porter was sent down to help blockade the Mississippi in the summer of 1861, and while there he found out all about the forts and the ships on the river.
That night they were to try to pass the fortsand fight their way to New Orleans.
All this time the forts had kept still, but now they blazed out with all their guns, and the air was full of the booming of cannon and the screeching of shells from forts and ships.
On this island were the forts which they had to pass.
As the men in the fortssprang up, the lightning flashed out on the clouds, and lit up "the gallant little ship floating past like a phantom.
But the forts and ships began to fire on it, and before it reached its goal a frightful disaster occurred.
The Confederates had taken possession of these forts and had big guns in them.
There were forts on shore, but they were poor affairs, with a few little cannon, and soldiers carrying spears.
These were to stop the fleet from going up the river, and to hold it fast while the forts could pour shot and shell into it.
The alarm was given and the Spaniards in the fortsroused up.
He had made himself master of Ingria and Livonia, but was ready, if necessary, to restore the latter province if he might be allowed to retain the Neva with its two forts of Schluesselburg and Slotburg.
I wonder what would have happened in Europe if there had been no forts between Germany and France," said Ethel Blue thoughtfully.
There have been times when it would have been a sore temptation to make use of the forts if they had existed.
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