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He is perplexed and hindered by the lack of soldiers, but is doing his best with his small forces.

All our people were well mounted, and armed with rifles, pistols, and bowie-knives.

To this, it is greatly to be feared, the fiery Southerns will not submit without an armed struggle.

Nearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.

He carried this war of extermination up to Ilocos, where, little by little, his forces deserted him.

General Monet operated in the north against the rebels with Spanish and native auxiliary forces.

For the first time in his experience the Corsican had to meet the forces of a nation and not of a government.

But the sheer quantity of the inflated currency and false money forces prices higher still.

The village was held by about 400 armed natives, who had killed one native and two European soldiers on the way.

Thus the whole State became one vast armed camp, nearly forty thousand men on a side, arrayed against each other.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985