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- Joan set to work at once, and concerted a plan with Guillaume de Flavy, captain of the city--a plan for a sortie toward evening against the enemy, who was posted in three bodies on the other side of the Oise, in the level plain. [5]
- So the fleet of boats came up and went away loaded with provisions and cattle, and conveyed that welcome succor to the hungry city, managing the matter successfully under protection of a sortie from the walls against the bastille of St. Loup. [5]
- A dozen prisoners had been captured in a sortie from the Isle of Orleans to the mouth of the St. Charles River. [11]
- Before night we camped before its gates and made rough work with a sortie which marched out against us. [5]
- The thing happened at a little sortie from the Nile. [11]
- That was why, although he was no longer in the army, when Fielding and Dicky mounted for the sortie he said to Fielding: "Oh, brother of Joshua and all the fighters of Israel, I have a bobtailed Arab. [11]
- Six months later, a letter came to Dicky from an Egyptian officer, saying that Heatherby of the Buffs had died gallantly fighting in a sortie sent by Gordon into the desert. [11]
- Next year, in a Huguenot sortie from Anvers, he was slain. [11]
- Joan sent forward a heavy force which hurled itself against the outworks in handsome style, and gained a footing and fought hard to keep it; but it presently began to fall back before a sortie from the city. [5]
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