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    How The Redoubt Was Taken 1896
    How The Redoubt Was Taken 1896
    How The Redoubt Was Taken 1896
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    How The Redoubt Was Taken 1896

    By Prosper Mérimée

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      How The Redoubt Was Taken 1896 - Prosper Mérimée

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      Title: How The Redoubt Was Taken

             1896

      Author: Prosper Mérimée

      Release Date: October 17, 2007 [EBook #23057]

      Last Updated: January 26, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW THE REDOUBT WAS TAKEN ***

      Produced by David Widger

      HOW THE REDOUBT WAS TAKEN

      By Prosper Mérimée

      Copyright, 1896, by The Current Literature Publishing Company

      A friend of mine, a soldier, who died in Greece of fever some years since, described to me one day his first engagement. His story so impressed me that I wrote it down from memory. It was as follows:

      I joined my regiment on September 4th. It was evening. I found the colonel in the camp. He received me rather bruskly, but having read the general's introductory letter he changed his manner and addressed me courteously.

      By him I was presented to my captain, who had just come in from reconnoitring. This captain, whose acquaintance I had scarcely time to make, was a tall, dark man, of harsh, repelling aspect. He had been a private soldier, and had won his cross and

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