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Excerpt from No Surrender In the world's history there is no more striking example of heroic bravery and firmness than that afforded by the people of the province of Poitou, and more especially of that portion of it known as La Vendee, in the defence of their religion and their rights as free men. At the commencement of the struggle they were almost unarmed, and the subsequent battles were fought by the aid of muskets and cannon wrested from the enemy. With the exception of its forests, La Vendee offered no natural advantages for defence. It had no mountains such as those which enabled the Swiss to maintain their independence, no rivers which would bar the advance of an enemy, and although the woods and thickets of the Bocage, as it was called, favoured the action of the irregular troops, these do not seem to have been utilized as they might have been, the principal engagements of the war being fought on open ground. For eighteen months the peasants of La Vendée, in spite of the fact that they had no idea of submitting either to drill or discipline, repulsed the efforts of forces commanded by the best generals France could furnish, and which grew after every defeat until at length armies numbering in all over two hundred thousand men were collected to crush La Vendee. The losses on both sides were enormous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Pełny tytuł: No Surrender (Classic Reprint)
• Autor: G. A. Henty
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 408
• EAN: 9781330735466
• ISBN: 9781330735466
• ID: 09684018
• Wydawca: Forgotten Books
• Waga: 544 g
• Wymiary: 229 × 152 × 21 mm
• Data wydania: 05. July 2015

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