It was a desperate fight.

A fierce fight followed, in which Jack's ardent partisans made painful havoc with the limbs of the enemyAtterbury, their leader, being carted from the campus, under the horrified eyes of the faculty, dying, as it was thought.

"Actual fighting is to me a relief, a forgetfulness, an excitement, and is so with many of my comrades.

; so let us e'en go and settle this brave fight we have in hand.

When he arrived there, less than half a mile off, he found that desperate street fighting had been going on for over an hour.

These are mining villages we are passing through, and on the horizon are some of those pyramidal slag-heapsthe Fosseswhich have seen some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

And in his dreams all night was the rushing thunder of many fierce feet and the roaring din of bitter fight and conflict.

Nor were the mere numbers the most telling point about it; for the worse half escapedLivingston's Montreal 'patriots,' many of whom had done very little fighting, Montgomery's time-expired New Yorkers, most of whom wanted to go home, and Jerry Duggan's miscellaneous rabble, all of whom wanted a maximum of plunder with a minimum of war.

And when winter fell And o'er Strathpeffer laid its barren spell When days were bleak with storm, and nights were drear And dark and lonesome, well they loved to hear The songs of Ossian, peerless and sublime Their blind, grey bard, grown old before his time, Lamenting for his sonthe young, the brave Oscar, who fell beside the western wave In Gavra's bloody and unequal fight.

In severe hand-to-hand fighting at Flesquieres near Cambrai, on the 21st, British troops, preceded by tanks, stormed the town.

The event was not so serious as I then feared, for, after a gallant fight for life, he won the battle, recovered of his wound, and lived to do service in another war.

Upon this reception Captain Thomas gave the order to fire, and the intrenchments were carried with a rush after about ten minutes of sharp fighting.

They came again and again, and their attacks were always met and broken with the bayonet by yeomen who were becoming fatigued by continuous fighting, and advancing and retiring in this terrible country.

In the moonlight there was a sharp quick fight, a snarling and scratching, a cat-like yowl of pain, and the fisher forgot his hunger in flight.

Arrival of the Fifth Cavalry at Fort HaysOut on a ScoutA little Skirmish with IndiansA Buffalo HuntA False Alarm in campA Scout on the BeaverThe Supply Camp is SurprisedArrival of General CarrThe new Lieutenant and his ReceptionAnother Indian HuntAn EngagementA Crack ShotI have a little Indian fight of my ownReturn to Fort WallaceWhile hunting Buffaloes with a small Party, we are Attacked by Fifty Indians.

Thus terminated the war of Granada, after ten years of incessant fighting; equalling the far-famed siege of Troy in duration, and ending, like that, in the capture of the city.

They had won a very stubborn fight, but winning had cost them much, and Lister felt their triumph was strangely flat.

Here some of the bloodiest Infantry fighting of the whole war took place in May 1917.

Tom Moody rode up presently, and he and his pack drew off into a sheltered corner of the lawn, where the dogs rolled on the grass, and played or growled angrily at one another, ever and anon breaking out into furious fights, speedily to be quelled by Tom's voice, unmatched at rating, or the snaky thongs of the whips.

The Yeomanry Mounted Division had made a grand fight against a vastly superior force of the enemy in a country absolutely unfavourable to the movement of mounted troops.

What an unequal fight!

For after advancing into Oude Havelock found that constant fighting, cholera, sunstroke and illness had so reduced his numbers that to go on would risk the extermination of his force.

The magnificent fight the 53rd Division put up at Khuweilfeh against vastly superior forces and in the face of heavy casualties played a very important part in the overwhelming defeat of the Turks.

The 231st Infantry Brigade with one battalion in the front line took over from the 8th Mounted Brigade from Beit Dukku to Jufna, and while the reliefs were in progress there was continual fighting in the Et Tireh-Foka area.

The furious foes in deadly fight His scanty followers put to flight, In panic-stricken fear they fly, And leave him unavenged to die.