But As I Fell In At The Rear Of The Procession And Looked Back, The
Figure Of The Young Cuban,
Who was no longer a part of the world of
Santa Clara, was asleep in the wet grass, with his
Motionless arms
still tightly bound behind him, with the scapular twisted awry across
his face, and the blood from his breast sinking into the soil he had
tried to free.
THE GREEK-TURKISH WAR: THE BATTLE OF VELESTINOS {2}
The Turks had made three attacks on Velestinos on three different
days, and each time had been repulsed. A week later, on the 4th of
May, they came back again, to the number of ten thousand, and brought
four batteries with them, and the fighting continued for two more
days. This was called the second battle of Velestinos. In the
afternoon of the 5th the Crown Prince withdrew from Pharsala to take
up a stronger position at Domokos, and the Greeks under General
Smolenski, the military hero of the campaign, were forced to retreat,
and the Turks came in, and, according to their quaint custom, burned
the village and marched on to Volo. John Bass, the American
correspondent, and myself were keeping house in the village, in the
home of the mayor. He had fled from the town, as had nearly all the
villagers; and as we liked the appearance of his house, I gave Bass a
leg up over the wall around his garden, and Bass opened the gate, and
we climbed in through his front window.
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