. Ninety-three . Avere like enormous black s2)onges, whence, luider the pressure ofthe gigantic foot of Eevolution, civil war spurted out. Invisible battalions lay there in wait. These untrackable armieswound along beneath the Eepublican troops ; bmst suddenly forth fromthe earth and sank into it again, sprang up in numberless force andvanished at will, gifted with a strange ul>iquity and power of disap-l^earance ; an avalanche at one instant, gone like a cloud of dust at thenext ; colossal, yet able to become pigmies at will ; giants in battle,dwiirls iu attility to conceal themselves—jagu
. Ninety-three . Avere like enormous black s2)onges, whence, luider the pressure ofthe gigantic foot of Eevolution, civil war spurted out. Invisible battalions lay there in wait. These untrackable armieswound along beneath the Eepublican troops ; bmst suddenly forth fromthe earth and sank into it again, sprang up in numberless force andvanished at will, gifted with a strange ul>iquity and power of disap-l^earance ; an avalanche at one instant, gone like a cloud of dust at thenext ; colossal, yet able to become pigmies at will ; giants in battle,dwiirls iu attility to conceal themselves—jaguars with the habits ofmoles. Thert> wei-e not only the forests, there were the woods. Just aslielow cities there are villages, below these forests there were woods andunderwoods. The forests were luiited by the laliyiinths (everywhere scattered) of 340 NINETY-THREE. 241 the woods. The aueient castles, wliiola were fortresses, the hamlets,which were camps, the farms, wliicli were inclosures for amlmslies aud. suares, traversed by ditches aud palisaded by trees, were the meshes ofthe net in which the Republican armies were caught. 24:2 .VIXE T Y-TH RËE. This whole formed what is called th(^ Bocatie. There was the wood of Misdon, which hu<l a pond m its centre, andwhich was held by Jean Chonau ; there was the vrood of Gennes, whichbelonged to Tuillefer ; there was the wood of Huisserie, which lielongedto Gronge-le-Bruant ; the wood of Charnie, where lurked Couilillé-le-Batard, called Haint-Panl, chief of the camp of the Yache î^ioire; thewood of Burgault, whicli was held liy that euigTuatical MonsieurJacques, reserved for a mysterious end in the vault of Juvardeil ; therewas the wood of Charreau, wliere Pimousse and Petit-Prince, whenattacked by the garrison of (Jhâteauneuf, rushed forward and seized thegrenadiers iu the Republican ranks about the waist and carried themback })risoners ; the wood of La Heureuserie, the witness of the rout ofthe military post of Longue-F
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