Page:Lesbia Newman - Dalton - 1889.djvu/8

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A desperate charge of the French cavalry cleared the ground, bearing down the tall flagstaff as an avalanche would a reed, and with a horrid smash sacrificing many horses, as well as the limbs of their riders, against the squat round lighthouse, Roche's Tower.—[Page 218.]