Excerpt from An Iron-Bound City, Vol. 2 of 2: Or, Five Months of Peril and Privation

Was deafening, and almost continuous. While it was at its height the troops were stealthily moved to a position on the edge of the Marne behind the islet of Fanac. The scene was picturesque in the extreme - such a scene as Rembrandt or Salvator would have loved to paint. There were in it effects.

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