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The sub-officer Klemt relates how, on the 24th of September, his
regiment having left Hannonville in the morning, accompanied by Austrian
batteries, suddenly came up against a double fire of infantry and
artillery. Their losses were terrible, and yet the enemy was still
invisible. Finally, says this officer, it was found that the bullets
came from above, from trees which the French soldiers had climbed.
From this point let me quote verbatim, (Fig. 16:)
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They're brought down from the trees like squirrels, to get a
hot reception with bayoneted stock; they'll need no more
doctors' care. We are not fighting loyal enemies, but
treacherous brigands. [Note--It is scarcely necessary to point
out that it is no more "treacherous," but quite as lawful, to
fire from the branches of a tree as from a window, or from a
trench, and that, on the contrary, it is rather more
venturesome and more courageous, as the sequel of this story
will show.] We crossed the clearing at a bound. The foe is
hidden here and there among the bushes, and now we are upon
them.
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