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Chapter V
"Pacified Matanzas"
^^4M:^'MM:
BY two in the morning of April 5th, Lacret's
column was on the road and daybreak found
it winding from the valley of Guamacaro by
a wide circuit into the hills, and back again
toward Pavo Real. An advance guard of fifty armados rode a quarter of a mile ahead, then came
Lacret with his towering hat, surrounded by his
staff and followed by his escolta, some sixty big,
black cane-cutters, naked as Andarje's infantry.
After the escolta, an impedimenta of one hundred ragamuffins, white, black, and yellow, bob-tailed
along with a tinkling of pots and pans ; it included
the officers' orderlies and outlawed peasants, who
had begged to follow the force for safety.1 It was
1 Peasants were flocking daily to be incorporated in the force; but there were no
rifles, and the impedimenta was already crowded. Those in immediate danger were
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| Title | Marching with Gomez |
| Creator | Flint, Grover |
| Publisher | Lamson, Wolffe and company |
| Place of Publication | Boston, New York [etc.] |
| Date | 1898 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000078 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | Chapter V "Pacified Matanzas" ^^4M:^'MM: BY two in the morning of April 5th, Lacret's column was on the road and daybreak found it winding from the valley of Guamacaro by a wide circuit into the hills, and back again toward Pavo Real. An advance guard of fifty armados rode a quarter of a mile ahead, then came Lacret with his towering hat, surrounded by his staff and followed by his escolta, some sixty big, black cane-cutters, naked as Andarje's infantry. After the escolta, an impedimenta of one hundred ragamuffins, white, black, and yellow, bob-tailed along with a tinkling of pots and pans ; it included the officers' orderlies and outlawed peasants, who had begged to follow the force for safety.1 It was 1 Peasants were flocking daily to be incorporated in the force; but there were no rifles, and the impedimenta was already crowded. Those in immediate danger were 43 |
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