Identifier: riflerangersorad00reidrich (find matches)
Title: The rifle rangers : or adventures in South Mexico
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Reid, Mayne, 1818-1883
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Publisher: New York : Robert M. De Witt, Publisher
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ulting. It pealed along the wholeline, uttered from five thousand throats, and answered by twice that numberfrom the anchored ships. It echoed along the shores, and back from the dis-tant battlements. A color-sergeant, springing forward, rushed up the steep sides of a sand-hill, and planted his flag upon its snowy ridge. As the well-known banner swung out upon the breeze, another cheer, wildand thrilling, ran along the line; a hundred answering flags were hauled upthrough the fleet; the ships of war saluted with full broadsides, and the gunsof San Juan, now for the first time waking from their lethargic silence, pouredforth their loudest thunder ! The sun was just setting, as our column commenced its advance inward.After winding, for a short distance, through the defiles of the hills, we haltedfor the night—our left wing resting upon the beach. The soldiers bivouacked without tents—sleeping upon their a.rros, with th«Boft sand for their couch, and a cartridge-box for their pillow
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CHAPTER VIII. THE INVESTMENT OF VERA CKUZ. At break of day on the 10th, the army took up its line of march, throughhills of sand-drift Division lapped upon division, regiment upon regiment,extending the circle of investment by an irregular echellon. Foot-rifles andlight infontry drove the enemy from ridge to ridge, and through the darkmazes of the chapparal gorge. The column continued its tortuous track,vt-inding through deep defiles, and over hot white hills, like a bristling snake.It moved within range of the guns of the city, screened by intervesingheights. Now and then, the loud cannon of Santiago opened upon it. as someregiment displayed, crossing a defile, or pushing over the spur of a sand-hill.The constant rattling of rifles and musketry told that our skirmishers werebusy in the advance. The Arsenal was carried by a brilliant charge, and theAmerican flag waved over the ruins of the convent IMalibran. On the 11th,the Orizava road was crossed, and the light troops of the enemy w

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