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John Sandes. The Call of the Southern Cross
The Call of the Southern Cross
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I.—TOM BRISBANE MAKES USEFUL FRIEND
CHAPTER II.—THE CHILD OF THE BATTLEFIELD
CHAPTER III.—THE CAMPAIGNING OF BIDDY FLYNN
CHAPTER IV.—OFF TO AUSTRALIA
CHAPTER V.—PIONEERS OF THE WEST
CHAPTER VI.—HOW LITTLE SYD. WAS LOST AND FOUND
CHAPTER VII.—ENTER MOIRA BLAKE
CHAPTER VIII.—THE POISONED DAMPER
CHAPTER IX.—THE ATTACK ON PRETTY PLAINS
CHAPTER X.—"BAKKOOI NAN-NOMBA NINDA."
CHAPTER XI.—THE BECKONING OF THE STARS
CHAPTER XII.—GOLD-FEVER BREAKS OUT
CHAPTER XIII.—DIGGERS IN MELBOURNE
CHAPTER XIV.—OFF TO BALLARAT
CHAPTER XV.—THE MURDER AT THE EUREKA HOTEL
CHAPTER XVI.—MUTTERINGS OF THE STORM
CHAPTER XVII.—AT THE EUREKA STOCKADE
CHAPTER XVIII.—IN THE CAMP HOSPITAL
THE END
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John Sandes
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The French King saved his skin, but he lost everything else, for, though his army escaped with a loss of 6,000 men on the field of battle, he had to throw away all his artillery, transport and stores, and even the priceless pictures and art treasures that he was carrying away with him from the Royal Palace at Madrid.
Late in the evening, when the troops were still cheering in the exaltation of the great victory, Henry Verner made his way back slowly over the eight miles of country that he had traversed in the fury of the fight. Here and there—especially on the crests of the hills, where there had been hand-to-hand fighting—the dead men, both French and English, lay thickly, and Verner could see the ghouls of the battlefield, Portuguese muleteers and camp followers, flitting hither and thither, as they bent over the corpses robbing them.
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