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the first discharge. The men in the barracks were to have charged to gate. In an instant twelve men in the guard house would have supported the sentinel whilst they reloaded the cannon. All the talking was through an officer through an interpreter. Pash was told the moment an Indian stepped over the gate-sill he would be fired on. Every man stood ready, for it was understood that if they forced the sentinel at the gate, it would be the signal to fire the cannon first, but in twenty
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