tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70413774808027195912024-03-05T02:30:52.702-06:00Campaigns of General William Augustus PettygreeGalliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-40856013106305084672023-12-17T13:32:00.006-06:002023-12-17T13:43:59.860-06:00Merry Christmas 2023 and Always<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJAzfOqtvcPd3RaMwliGb2hSSOF77iFDbBld5S2i8bRxB_rdiZw1OTB9hGaBzro_SMG0e0Qq3bP-DBoStRClfS0oqAdV3bJz_10WsvHyuyt4IUxlnsrCMsrjMHMmVcpymTWmCkEgBdJ1ha4P6759Nufqx9KjkKb2V3f-aIdyof4P5_migEcVJlBiSKjSGZ/s3888/img_5075c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="2589" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJAzfOqtvcPd3RaMwliGb2hSSOF77iFDbBld5S2i8bRxB_rdiZw1OTB9hGaBzro_SMG0e0Qq3bP-DBoStRClfS0oqAdV3bJz_10WsvHyuyt4IUxlnsrCMsrjMHMmVcpymTWmCkEgBdJ1ha4P6759Nufqx9KjkKb2V3f-aIdyof4P5_migEcVJlBiSKjSGZ/w266-h400/img_5075c.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">This painting arrived as a Christmas card a few days ago. It is the most beautiful depiction of love and adoration of Jesus by heavenly angels and his Mother Mary I've seen. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Linger here for a few minutes this season in contemplation please. What is important? What are your thoughts and feelings about it including your relationship and engagement now and in the future with Jesus?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">You are invited to post your thoughts in Comments.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Merry Christmas Everyone!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Bill</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">---------- ---------- ----------</span></p>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-10316988492846704742023-03-30T23:07:00.000-05:002023-03-30T23:07:22.384-05:00BOMBARDMENTS TODAY!<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhcB2An_y1YlpLKmjyIDR_0xU3-NzfBmWyOI72Q9zuufVr76r_gebhF3jT1oBzfnMlryWDIYdNaScjD9M-7ZuNMLo1mp7cUkQFv827ipkw4HEy5YAzGxEDUazjOQhUl06CuzCC2h0gSDP590TAI9NHEkcTnvXWbbLH9wY7HE2Do3xVaI1Cui28tukHsg/s3888/img_4730.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhcB2An_y1YlpLKmjyIDR_0xU3-NzfBmWyOI72Q9zuufVr76r_gebhF3jT1oBzfnMlryWDIYdNaScjD9M-7ZuNMLo1mp7cUkQFv827ipkw4HEy5YAzGxEDUazjOQhUl06CuzCC2h0gSDP590TAI9NHEkcTnvXWbbLH9wY7HE2Do3xVaI1Cui28tukHsg/w400-h400/img_4730.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Readers are most likely familiar with prodigious WWII naval bombardments and the destruction intended ashore. Numerous Pacific Theatre battles may come to mind as the Allies recovered lost islands and territories into August 1945.</div></span><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXzl6nmQIqifbZtlKfMmqji_yusRmQVam5_hOzxo21FRdwT8XmA7wmvfPgTKlyCPh_LmToLixtipu6AcHPR5Aa_LaWmkuqNkAfaXtmi-dCCRhknOhZBRcMBa8QY2wY3fTdB4W08O5r8yWvbhqQLAqUIh3uHakz1KWkbp_ol81Ir8co4ERwxBr70LoSkg/s3888/img_4732.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXzl6nmQIqifbZtlKfMmqji_yusRmQVam5_hOzxo21FRdwT8XmA7wmvfPgTKlyCPh_LmToLixtipu6AcHPR5Aa_LaWmkuqNkAfaXtmi-dCCRhknOhZBRcMBa8QY2wY3fTdB4W08O5r8yWvbhqQLAqUIh3uHakz1KWkbp_ol81Ir8co4ERwxBr70LoSkg/w400-h400/img_4732.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">However, D-Day's thunderous salvoes sent into Normandy on June 6, 1944 may come more easily to mind. I recently watched The Longest Day again thinking about terrible destruction, death, shock and deafness intended for coastal defenders. It consumed every fiber of their being. How could it not?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi74sFCXS4q6WaMgynqDEK91qw28K4T4dovD3_CaKGg_4mhMYnSZ-8JgBYBHkSFq3wYQcOb7UU9GE_LJ2zk1g7LzWUwJetOwWqDzwur7dQG16nnK96HmwVGmv9aFgSKRV9N8Zjpq6QdMmnk964CznQKCvsFdrFvbIim5m6Xqmb5qCcPbJ713VOgWBLIcQ/s3888/img_4733b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi74sFCXS4q6WaMgynqDEK91qw28K4T4dovD3_CaKGg_4mhMYnSZ-8JgBYBHkSFq3wYQcOb7UU9GE_LJ2zk1g7LzWUwJetOwWqDzwur7dQG16nnK96HmwVGmv9aFgSKRV9N8Zjpq6QdMmnk964CznQKCvsFdrFvbIim5m6Xqmb5qCcPbJ713VOgWBLIcQ/w400-h266/img_4733b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>It got me to thinking about the minute by minute bombardment consuming us daily. What is it doing to us? Why do we allow it --- such as?</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>Overdoing</u></b> texting, emailing, social media, screen time at and off of work, video games, addictions, pursuit of experiences, television, workaholic and/or newsaholic behaviors, too busy for interaction with family and friends, the disappearance of quiet time and more. How about allowing cell phones to disturb family chow time, sleep or precious unrecoverable time with our children/grandchildren? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My Marketing Director, Michael, tells a story about an ice skating practice. He sat in the stands watching his child skate. His cell phone was intentionally someplace else so he could be in the moment with his offspring. However, a nearby mom was immersed constantly on a cell phone. Her daughter then had an issue with a skate. The mom did not hear multiple pleas for mom's help because screen time was more important. Michael soon got the mom's attention.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">One more thing as Easter nears. The most important negative dynamic is....</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAtE0E5RiZU5EbVult6sRg7gsknU0aQY1Icd4VPIi_eVii89N4-SVrRrOMAdxmUQGKOHPGZhc6dy6TGk1phHmcI0IQtfhGqgQPlLInIBU2QrYFUpxqMJyXVzX_Sr1SlC3RN2n_2Jcmh1Lj3eLtb_hMJl8a6CJ0ERqj1eSmrt5BLNGulivbQz789IZNIQ/s3888/img_4734b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAtE0E5RiZU5EbVult6sRg7gsknU0aQY1Icd4VPIi_eVii89N4-SVrRrOMAdxmUQGKOHPGZhc6dy6TGk1phHmcI0IQtfhGqgQPlLInIBU2QrYFUpxqMJyXVzX_Sr1SlC3RN2n_2Jcmh1Lj3eLtb_hMJl8a6CJ0ERqj1eSmrt5BLNGulivbQz789IZNIQ/w400-h266/img_4734b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">There is insufficient silence for us to hear the voice of Jesus in many different ways. </div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijH_FN6cZwCMSxugNv3typSgMtjgS4zepYfKDIFHOwuGxcFkAk0kH1MnSiSkSFbZOCcElbhHeN21HpJ61ULGCq4YLDDoYvfqI2yA-Xd1YklvX-y-K51WZBncBZWnZnHIsZbiHcWDFu_G1Rw9nDcn9QK9f9_WS6XIHpBsOj8Y2XoWq1XMW1EqV4q_Zg1A/s3888/img_4736.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijH_FN6cZwCMSxugNv3typSgMtjgS4zepYfKDIFHOwuGxcFkAk0kH1MnSiSkSFbZOCcElbhHeN21HpJ61ULGCq4YLDDoYvfqI2yA-Xd1YklvX-y-K51WZBncBZWnZnHIsZbiHcWDFu_G1Rw9nDcn9QK9f9_WS6XIHpBsOj8Y2XoWq1XMW1EqV4q_Zg1A/w400-h400/img_4736.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"And get to know me."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMvSxKY0CheusnmsWprHKj0iQjQpdDkf0u1R4-okrxZjxtD83MztsyPORDCwUeEKgYGNxoJvezjTS4hhAZr1UWZAq8inI6dC1_bm76CUQSDoinOGPajL62aaR5NFexF62QEcp3CbQ-wG-bAnGlGX1EGny9aQT4lgUKayAO5IIasXmuU3jQ-iQZUggJlg/s3888/img_3046b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMvSxKY0CheusnmsWprHKj0iQjQpdDkf0u1R4-okrxZjxtD83MztsyPORDCwUeEKgYGNxoJvezjTS4hhAZr1UWZAq8inI6dC1_bm76CUQSDoinOGPajL62aaR5NFexF62QEcp3CbQ-wG-bAnGlGX1EGny9aQT4lgUKayAO5IIasXmuU3jQ-iQZUggJlg/w400-h266/img_3046b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Come and follow me."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It's Time To Go Home.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Every Blessing and Happy Easter Everyone!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------- ---------- ----------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red;">CLOSING REMARKS WHICH MAY APPLY FOR YOU</span></b></div><div><b><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></u></b></div><div><b><u>It’s Time To Come Home Whether You</u></b></div><div><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 3.0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Retired from the Catholic or your Faith tradition (Understandable)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 3.0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Have remained home since Covid (You aren’t alone)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 3.0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Want to learn about Catholicism (Founded 2,000 years ago in the year 33)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 3.0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Hear an almost silent voice inviting you (Saying come)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 3.0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Aren’t sure, distrustful, hurt, don't believe or too busy (Come anyway)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 3.0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Think Catholicism is unbiblical (It <b><u>is</u></b> scripturally biblical)<o:p></o:p></p><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Don’t think you are welcome (You <u>Are</u> Welcome!)</b> </div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;">---------- ---------- ----------</span></div></span></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-12930773525678044412023-01-02T22:25:00.005-06:002023-04-14T18:07:59.981-05:00EMPIRE OF WRATH CHAPTER 6: PROCESSION<p> <span style="text-align: center;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-size: large;">A GENERAL PETTYGREE BATTLE STORY</span></b></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;">EMPIRE OF WRATH</span></b></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Chapter 6</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><b>PROCESSION</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ragnar Khan's Horde is assembled for review and imminent march to engage the Imperials.</b></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRpqSlDDij_KIYIkvmoka0gnLG4IXLFW-ZJZ2XPPDaqu5iLUEC8yf3KEsWmp5iyuQlKH3jIymwsspKwQa18cmpAnJpG0ixSTUSq6PDcF5R3QdKUnUlgtEFa_jIVgB-psFDynG0-jxICxjm2v8N6jT0y8xpimG2FgB0Z1pTzROxt3tWZ9l-HOS_qDQR/s3841/img_1701b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2558" data-original-width="3841" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRpqSlDDij_KIYIkvmoka0gnLG4IXLFW-ZJZ2XPPDaqu5iLUEC8yf3KEsWmp5iyuQlKH3jIymwsspKwQa18cmpAnJpG0ixSTUSq6PDcF5R3QdKUnUlgtEFa_jIVgB-psFDynG0-jxICxjm2v8N6jT0y8xpimG2FgB0Z1pTzROxt3tWZ9l-HOS_qDQR/w400-h266/img_1701b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Red Sash Horsemen fanatically salute him with flourishing swords and rejoicing.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw-mI_1dexl7uYZXuzsiiimkP7ZP6pMPp9hdVz1-8S-0cTFTDcNZcUmWkEbC9RYhFVieF8l7IirC3aRwckbj6ZHJb7h6kDleuzgHNIIX21bNlg7xC9V9qGpmzHn5s-1guoOpvHVGRhC1fkFkCKsbR1BeYuJx7JyUNqerT98GAg1u5I6gOWnM84aZfD/s3847/img_1702b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2571" data-original-width="3847" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw-mI_1dexl7uYZXuzsiiimkP7ZP6pMPp9hdVz1-8S-0cTFTDcNZcUmWkEbC9RYhFVieF8l7IirC3aRwckbj6ZHJb7h6kDleuzgHNIIX21bNlg7xC9V9qGpmzHn5s-1guoOpvHVGRhC1fkFkCKsbR1BeYuJx7JyUNqerT98GAg1u5I6gOWnM84aZfD/w400-h268/img_1702b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Count Colonel Villainovich's contingent remained respectful.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRIMKRrBCh8IOl27JWusA5U5If6b4hJlK0OV-0YbLUea7-mks89Us-ELKjhW7mwI7aW8oEyfzYUmBdBXXYmQWhCpbpOV5waGvEdo_Cl6dLSes9DViFokajR8NML-DjlujiYffYduHR4Lb9KoQkcoxNCe8_oiV-kANBxoWiOW6q5IZT800YyJBvLBzo/s3886/img_1706b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3886" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRIMKRrBCh8IOl27JWusA5U5If6b4hJlK0OV-0YbLUea7-mks89Us-ELKjhW7mwI7aW8oEyfzYUmBdBXXYmQWhCpbpOV5waGvEdo_Cl6dLSes9DViFokajR8NML-DjlujiYffYduHR4Lb9KoQkcoxNCe8_oiV-kANBxoWiOW6q5IZT800YyJBvLBzo/w400-h266/img_1706b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Each band cheered approval as Khan processed. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAYwvmWj9lH8xwLx12Tyne6pnueUDQSKM0QZDPSEo3kPcKaSolbhvnoXNKzQhqhcNZptJo6nPu7zLSl9WnThKeDM3P-ztofkAp03YhOgwL1avxgFelPTWrLOpx2NYFhlTtzVlrW40JRrIc9JY6hHTWX-brYsz6L6IwPLFwTMiPLxLFvY3F7G84Brap/s3888/img_1705b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAYwvmWj9lH8xwLx12Tyne6pnueUDQSKM0QZDPSEo3kPcKaSolbhvnoXNKzQhqhcNZptJo6nPu7zLSl9WnThKeDM3P-ztofkAp03YhOgwL1avxgFelPTWrLOpx2NYFhlTtzVlrW40JRrIc9JY6hHTWX-brYsz6L6IwPLFwTMiPLxLFvY3F7G84Brap/w400-h266/img_1705b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Suddenly his Great Guns added explosive praise as well.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5-kLMaTENbuzrRSPkYa0kL5ui1a1zKOJ1vL3kIdpcX7qem0zjCIwPvAbJYIyR9ZwWB_-DmY5nWIwNoR-ptkPNHobBNLRm3Epzftd_l48DUBE901bwtmTbTp_5Ven0OPWeVkt5YHcknXkF36iYqgIgOLefSuTbO3TrwdPUh3KivjOOjWYexMkXWmJ8/s3888/img_1708b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5-kLMaTENbuzrRSPkYa0kL5ui1a1zKOJ1vL3kIdpcX7qem0zjCIwPvAbJYIyR9ZwWB_-DmY5nWIwNoR-ptkPNHobBNLRm3Epzftd_l48DUBE901bwtmTbTp_5Ven0OPWeVkt5YHcknXkF36iYqgIgOLefSuTbO3TrwdPUh3KivjOOjWYexMkXWmJ8/w400-h266/img_1708b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"See Khan The Magnificent within his elite Household Horse, Jezzail and Swords men!," shouted the Red Sash Commander to his men.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMP_IWrIt9eJwKtobPM8ACir3ZZ_3utbVWDKTZHWqKrcGaZ3ahZj0V-q7rN3G75F-7kO3jNtLJ5_oNSblfigLu-VjesGv_ibbpgUvcvh4MlrzRCgCcnezCu-z4STBBu8PXS5gEuBtZ7-34vLDhUag61lBJXoOjrnPCPfRujukmz_ese7kTkQFxZ2k2/s3868/img_1709b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2578" data-original-width="3868" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMP_IWrIt9eJwKtobPM8ACir3ZZ_3utbVWDKTZHWqKrcGaZ3ahZj0V-q7rN3G75F-7kO3jNtLJ5_oNSblfigLu-VjesGv_ibbpgUvcvh4MlrzRCgCcnezCu-z4STBBu8PXS5gEuBtZ7-34vLDhUag61lBJXoOjrnPCPfRujukmz_ese7kTkQFxZ2k2/w400-h266/img_1709b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Yes, it is I. Are your Red Sashes ready to do my will?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"We are ready my Khan!" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBDmmUWQqsweplQ6FX4fIO3KLJUmmd-epeQPeBWV_pizujoVxkwvGUYu7pVFYaAmfu4CjjFKYY_oZxR7et8W9WTaREmLy3nZ1iCVWxr9WG8mgxN5mwYg9vH5tLtdfxKgDOKBQxMIZT1kPOIycLJAD0r-yxH1uk2Ljme1sSUbjGTQOOx8ORiDkHEhmR/s3888/img_1712.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBDmmUWQqsweplQ6FX4fIO3KLJUmmd-epeQPeBWV_pizujoVxkwvGUYu7pVFYaAmfu4CjjFKYY_oZxR7et8W9WTaREmLy3nZ1iCVWxr9WG8mgxN5mwYg9vH5tLtdfxKgDOKBQxMIZT1kPOIycLJAD0r-yxH1uk2Ljme1sSUbjGTQOOx8ORiDkHEhmR/w400-h400/img_1712.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Soon the Green, Orange and Grey Sashes would cast their eyes in turn on their leader showering him with obedient cheers, praise and jezzail fire. Then all marched ....</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">INTO THE PASS</b></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj60hPXO9cU1KyROVfrHZWmI0a2JIi3F9hjaPqRiwVXk-svSTaIvo6a5epM0pJUSZ0f0Qr46sdc-xkIjpQ-C-FRjAmpVOg5smgVtQx9QnVuFCjQwbhzwbO29dpUtdiZoXQDb4awAsg20RF8C_Nf8j5BchvKmy8NAmfruQqQgV6vSgqOs1pAS5dY1DZx/s3888/img_4539.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj60hPXO9cU1KyROVfrHZWmI0a2JIi3F9hjaPqRiwVXk-svSTaIvo6a5epM0pJUSZ0f0Qr46sdc-xkIjpQ-C-FRjAmpVOg5smgVtQx9QnVuFCjQwbhzwbO29dpUtdiZoXQDb4awAsg20RF8C_Nf8j5BchvKmy8NAmfruQqQgV6vSgqOs1pAS5dY1DZx/w400-h400/img_4539.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For a fortnight.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_gatfoZc4yZMxokiAiaVlH5x7xoWg-x9fOuz_6NNckxBoy2QhZrOBjTdl7iyXOrplDZ8Y-mCWbOWGx23V1tYpXhJ9I-HpLrfie0hqw_aNgeXwuAj0iLIF3ETJoLflqSyNMnAh4gHIBVVACaWArx97GQh53jJxtayUz9tWqvgW99AzHnRlJEDWCyj9/s3888/img_4536.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_gatfoZc4yZMxokiAiaVlH5x7xoWg-x9fOuz_6NNckxBoy2QhZrOBjTdl7iyXOrplDZ8Y-mCWbOWGx23V1tYpXhJ9I-HpLrfie0hqw_aNgeXwuAj0iLIF3ETJoLflqSyNMnAh4gHIBVVACaWArx97GQh53jJxtayUz9tWqvgW99AzHnRlJEDWCyj9/w400-h400/img_4536.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">"Your Excellency. Omens portend success!"</div></span><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj19g1QN_nqBFUwmQFn-ku-VSeJech9ANHfkIjAFAC7NR2E0Kq5lL5oU9Xq0z6V7Dgy96xE_CaaRiA67sfFaF3_hqTQzY6zKPrcnUyKkHamFFORTBqQebZC-vPc8DROzK6PR2bmp2YUjEnpOSYHLzFrYk-BBVhxZ9KL2V0YEoqLT_JKLWVWwnemMAiQ/s3326/img_4110c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2215" data-original-width="3326" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj19g1QN_nqBFUwmQFn-ku-VSeJech9ANHfkIjAFAC7NR2E0Kq5lL5oU9Xq0z6V7Dgy96xE_CaaRiA67sfFaF3_hqTQzY6zKPrcnUyKkHamFFORTBqQebZC-vPc8DROzK6PR2bmp2YUjEnpOSYHLzFrYk-BBVhxZ9KL2V0YEoqLT_JKLWVWwnemMAiQ/w400-h266/img_4110c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">"As witnessed by the Blood Red Moon sign at midnight."</div></span><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZMKMDQ576p8oyM3DcJrQuTrnUHEjc5Q6oOj7o3Y_gpTlDO48KyPRGRxaGIOK35L1u83jjQpZawxZBPDRrldeAwqg2Nzw02ie3UHNl7iXUqCWgs5b6c0HVObtnS4uOHJocNZSKf-AXONOtx4izzhgAYO6m1FVmFJy8HTBgOeP-p96HbiQWi8yUN5Tk/s3888/img_4535.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZMKMDQ576p8oyM3DcJrQuTrnUHEjc5Q6oOj7o3Y_gpTlDO48KyPRGRxaGIOK35L1u83jjQpZawxZBPDRrldeAwqg2Nzw02ie3UHNl7iXUqCWgs5b6c0HVObtnS4uOHJocNZSKf-AXONOtx4izzhgAYO6m1FVmFJy8HTBgOeP-p96HbiQWi8yUN5Tk/w400-h400/img_4535.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"I knew of its coming and so I'm counting on you Utman of Khel to speedily deliver the foe into my hands...."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn8C--kYamJpS4apTmbgIJWvRpTn6A4pqP3d4WRTDJv0Dl0y_ZvUC0AgZoj7i4e6ZsroDtgmS6dMjCgfaLq9RdfQEqSw-lCI4wMEhnMCgcoawp-bP4DHdMiw7kxWDFbN5hWI4HcytSfOVI629lBxk115bPVN3B2PP_7JnqaisNeU1NnBpNF1oFsZi_/s3888/img_4543.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn8C--kYamJpS4apTmbgIJWvRpTn6A4pqP3d4WRTDJv0Dl0y_ZvUC0AgZoj7i4e6ZsroDtgmS6dMjCgfaLq9RdfQEqSw-lCI4wMEhnMCgcoawp-bP4DHdMiw7kxWDFbN5hWI4HcytSfOVI629lBxk115bPVN3B2PP_7JnqaisNeU1NnBpNF1oFsZi_/w400-h400/img_4543.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"In an explosion of violence." </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbzJakwMQjWgioxRWAadvbf-9zXmEuQiNtohMEsxAIfckVu2-vfTZEAzbmXGagCzC2n12F1VWqZ_jokN9WPNvjKVq82qsJ5oiDLzQbVpOPUIHuT_e1HJ3XB23dWaHULO3NYkqKaRq6jr2mA1c6tvrea-FMPkDVZ29-OtKXh8E2JszJtBV40_iKvJ5Z/s3888/img_4544.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbzJakwMQjWgioxRWAadvbf-9zXmEuQiNtohMEsxAIfckVu2-vfTZEAzbmXGagCzC2n12F1VWqZ_jokN9WPNvjKVq82qsJ5oiDLzQbVpOPUIHuT_e1HJ3XB23dWaHULO3NYkqKaRq6jr2mA1c6tvrea-FMPkDVZ29-OtKXh8E2JszJtBV40_iKvJ5Z/w400-h400/img_4544.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">"Behold. I can and will. We will deliver them unto you."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Good. --- Very gooood."</div></span><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">DAYS LATER</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">AT FORT ALBERT'S PICQUET LINE</b></div></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH970Z3xI35Rd3w5A9oFuSHG2GRbY_X3Mm_VhQQp7XbsLWAbJhw_bPNlFqw9ZvQckcC9UY6I58nmg66TraTH5W28LdcMVdV25XJTeRSAdQRlNXEi0URx3US66lhwHetckSMa8NToj-YkKY9MIKzI1_Wn0qxYyyXM6fNTuBIOd0r4lS_2EhZRoYNbUR/s3888/img_4491.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH970Z3xI35Rd3w5A9oFuSHG2GRbY_X3Mm_VhQQp7XbsLWAbJhw_bPNlFqw9ZvQckcC9UY6I58nmg66TraTH5W28LdcMVdV25XJTeRSAdQRlNXEi0URx3US66lhwHetckSMa8NToj-YkKY9MIKzI1_Wn0qxYyyXM6fNTuBIOd0r4lS_2EhZRoYNbUR/w400-h400/img_4491.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Another day wait'n for the indolent Ragnar Khan, eh Sgt. Davies?"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Corey, was you in the Zulu War back in 79?"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"No Sergeant."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Well, had you been there, you'd know motivated tribesmen can be...."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTTdQ6qXUR_L2bY_Kudz7upW7YMz2KyyTSflHcs-dlShoLdqMhkuIoMItVhYupiowF7w9SMtPQqr2Kc-j7jfHsj3Tr5lV8n-UxIVsUYjDsZsRmue007SG8L1cv7sP6T3vLjn-fqNQ28m_JAN7FviUANoCdjq3cEz4AshcJCoivTFSDt8nbHkO1AHvP/s3888/img_4492.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTTdQ6qXUR_L2bY_Kudz7upW7YMz2KyyTSflHcs-dlShoLdqMhkuIoMItVhYupiowF7w9SMtPQqr2Kc-j7jfHsj3Tr5lV8n-UxIVsUYjDsZsRmue007SG8L1cv7sP6T3vLjn-fqNQ28m_JAN7FviUANoCdjq3cEz4AshcJCoivTFSDt8nbHkO1AHvP/w400-h400/img_4492.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Look Sergeant Sab! Gupta see the enemy!"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Aye. Here they come and straight at us!, said Ham."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB8qHNOsjNLtWOmM2sQrY1CLWlW6NQMcFsp74v-jKISyjm1HPE3CJCpzpxMD1vCh4Fev11QQ1vEyjQg8YuTKvJJJXdYJMcQlslfb-VdTRtrVg2YlIQxpRPs-G9FfNbkvLduc_AQCcYB4dql-ZKWeroP-29DlUm_N0cPs2dZXL03n0riHbsF4dTRaM9/s3888/img_4493.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB8qHNOsjNLtWOmM2sQrY1CLWlW6NQMcFsp74v-jKISyjm1HPE3CJCpzpxMD1vCh4Fev11QQ1vEyjQg8YuTKvJJJXdYJMcQlslfb-VdTRtrVg2YlIQxpRPs-G9FfNbkvLduc_AQCcYB4dql-ZKWeroP-29DlUm_N0cPs2dZXL03n0riHbsF4dTRaM9/w400-h400/img_4493.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Those are Khan's Green Sashes," said the Sergeant.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOExwUC9ah2LLIXDZnQ9LsF4wWjFzddSCYxafdciHjvSIc7DSUYISfj2fiUQrJDhXiMpqftj4FEeq7O0RMGsjRjEMVIN2kFVQ5r1ggEvldLYItZrATuRQeUfNsNlRzL5wfe_OYVwAtGT_HvXdPK5moz8irDxsXaa1Hp8ewpqVhDYF9TJ_4oHHbTPBv/s3888/img_4497B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOExwUC9ah2LLIXDZnQ9LsF4wWjFzddSCYxafdciHjvSIc7DSUYISfj2fiUQrJDhXiMpqftj4FEeq7O0RMGsjRjEMVIN2kFVQ5r1ggEvldLYItZrATuRQeUfNsNlRzL5wfe_OYVwAtGT_HvXdPK5moz8irDxsXaa1Hp8ewpqVhDYF9TJ_4oHHbTPBv/w400-h266/img_4497B.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"With 'is Orange Sash blokes behind 'em," continued Davies.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Swords and jezzails but no horsemen so far," said Ham.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Is that Ragnar Khan leading the foe?," asked Corey.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"I dunno, said Davies. "I've never seen him though I hear he rides a jumbo mostly."</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIjdmKBsHF_ZyczHNv7juafjcp-nH8Cr7i6r-TMm-H8339bJMsoRAIELVzg-o1ydGdnKbsSzxdYewJ6Enp-42D7jFN4Wrgc2g8Lw8fAJnUu_RM43IA1aKl6txAg0coHbOIfG9FWUopM3xxMsyce3cFKUpjcf74PYoK-8rRhbRbnSyydO45paMm6iUt/s3602/img_4501b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2406" data-original-width="3602" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIjdmKBsHF_ZyczHNv7juafjcp-nH8Cr7i6r-TMm-H8339bJMsoRAIELVzg-o1ydGdnKbsSzxdYewJ6Enp-42D7jFN4Wrgc2g8Lw8fAJnUu_RM43IA1aKl6txAg0coHbOIfG9FWUopM3xxMsyce3cFKUpjcf74PYoK-8rRhbRbnSyydO45paMm6iUt/w400-h268/img_4501b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Oh that tears it. They've seen us," shouted Corey.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitHzV-5dxU6_K9LP3YrTyzk5o_oQrp1PSoKy2m7TqrLPi7dvf4xlcYZBKN4cqignxU-ora_msemZul96fnKdU3m8DfK30k_OYgZpygWhr_RpJtWWvNlqElH6IIiiTY_DRix8llUUNtG1pC1PAcb-K4cyRmkVy41Ktn9EWtUlclzzp2-bh7Q8_2Uvfe/s3602/img_4502_00b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2406" data-original-width="3602" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitHzV-5dxU6_K9LP3YrTyzk5o_oQrp1PSoKy2m7TqrLPi7dvf4xlcYZBKN4cqignxU-ora_msemZul96fnKdU3m8DfK30k_OYgZpygWhr_RpJtWWvNlqElH6IIiiTY_DRix8llUUNtG1pC1PAcb-K4cyRmkVy41Ktn9EWtUlclzzp2-bh7Q8_2Uvfe/w400-h268/img_4502_00b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Time to go troopers. C'mon Gupta. Hurry, no dawdling now," shouted Sergeant Davies.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Coming Sab," said Gupta.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbDIxVGAHYXvhK6f5KNZ2Edb1qkqWN18CsQue-uHcJbBcTPnGc_LuzzhDCzceQGKkyB2XK5WkA7takdxOEuWKd0N85Qt30XRYW3KlAM1jftw7coD2jB3DYU0YNAvXYauhRpk72nCfrDcYKfL3XChXE9dkwcq7W9TJdLA0Oj4eLc3BHvVaBRv_Q3YVK/s3173/img_4505b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2120" data-original-width="3173" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbDIxVGAHYXvhK6f5KNZ2Edb1qkqWN18CsQue-uHcJbBcTPnGc_LuzzhDCzceQGKkyB2XK5WkA7takdxOEuWKd0N85Qt30XRYW3KlAM1jftw7coD2jB3DYU0YNAvXYauhRpk72nCfrDcYKfL3XChXE9dkwcq7W9TJdLA0Oj4eLc3BHvVaBRv_Q3YVK/w400-h268/img_4505b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"We've got to warn the Colonel!," bellowed Davies.</span><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">CLOSING REMARKS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">1. Previous chapters in sequence:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Chapter 1: At The Gallop</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-1.html">https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-1.html</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Chapter 2: Half A League to the Fort</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-2.html">https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-2.html</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Chapter 3: Fort Albert</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/10/empire-of-wrath-chapter-3.html">https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/10/empire-of-wrath-chapter-3.html</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Chapter 4: Ragnar Khan </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/11/empire-of-wrath-chapter-4.html">https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/11/empire-of-wrath-chapter-4.html</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Chapter 5: General Pettygree</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/12/empire-of-wrath-chapter-5-pettygree.html">https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/12/empire-of-wrath-chapter-5-pettygree.html</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">2. The General's next chapter is planned for late April 2023. What will be the fate of Fort Albert? Come back and see.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">3. Meanwhile he welcomes your remarks and sentiments at Comments below.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">---------- ---------- ----------</span></div></div></div></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-75401112941194091632022-12-23T04:45:00.000-06:002022-12-23T04:45:47.222-06:00MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL<p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #d9ead3;">MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoebrKSbUCviRSweB3zRfosm-dLRpAXvUS1qla6vmvplU8cLABRIVx72YUF-PZcQ6V_UoGSpzizml2meLV_uzZ2RWOeF5i3BZuo-_9dBNwjsqudywjr8jkCbf0hgcHmQfqbpap8qc6hc81CtwNCa1qvqWArRUzu1o1VLCB6WT9J87l5wb0LMclUjsM/s3888/img_3755b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoebrKSbUCviRSweB3zRfosm-dLRpAXvUS1qla6vmvplU8cLABRIVx72YUF-PZcQ6V_UoGSpzizml2meLV_uzZ2RWOeF5i3BZuo-_9dBNwjsqudywjr8jkCbf0hgcHmQfqbpap8qc6hc81CtwNCa1qvqWArRUzu1o1VLCB6WT9J87l5wb0LMclUjsM/w400-h400/img_3755b.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joseph and Mary Welcome Jesus Into Our World</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">He is the reason for Christmas</span></div><p></p>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-43814497289550116472022-12-04T19:18:00.007-06:002022-12-04T21:57:49.418-06:00EMPIRE OF WRATH CHAPTER 5: PETTYGREE<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">A GENERAL PETTYGREE BATTLE STORY</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;">EMPIRE OF WRATH</span></b></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Chapter 5</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><b>GENERAL PETTYGREE</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggfYI8-ypGiWnHSmiK9Exw2Egewnvo1V5aE-FtPpp6QG_F4IduYePhlpBXKC_MQVEPEwFmI5yfMjPIn6eSm8Aw7byM2GGh1_IgPy3qYkDSxKsAb3CF_hR8a1pKsMO1396B3LppYmQ6Fj5ac7tPAyvIQC4fYk3o1z2gQ6Xkv_a4qlRRnc18QGowW8Qj"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggfYI8-ypGiWnHSmiK9Exw2Egewnvo1V5aE-FtPpp6QG_F4IduYePhlpBXKC_MQVEPEwFmI5yfMjPIn6eSm8Aw7byM2GGh1_IgPy3qYkDSxKsAb3CF_hR8a1pKsMO1396B3LppYmQ6Fj5ac7tPAyvIQC4fYk3o1z2gQ6Xkv_a4qlRRnc18QGowW8Qj=w400-h266" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“There they go Davey."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Aye Mate, the 66th Foot, on their next campaign.”</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="432" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz2nv3gZ0AqGSbdaUxqAnpYXdn7N1sw-cr9PUnDseidpQBZSVYbluMNRyfATEir7BIqcaSljx8TOLU3w3H4hF7TzI3Ktd29LeSEYFWeb71uz2k2ScObd7-7tm5SI3KAc2B-nIh4D7pobvOQjSKKR-gw2lNcIBvolUzERuSSTMEJtP7Sk5qcyOR27nV=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Colonel Blackeny, Sir! Welcome to Bombay.”</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Much obliged Governor Catherwood. Delighted to be here.”</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUhDkaviEQmeM0G-Hh834291IHjn0CrvxFYUTWYlaADIWyd7b5_fUIzg1ABPffJ3pCH-zZlJs46x97qMz7OHnGvvOkR4-UUGpI8EipG6cDMLZhUVb0cb8AvWQKCb-5Dn3OmeKS5IFfmJkjiBvU4Fb4il8dJ_lr6ALg93fo4RCj4Cem7znoF9Nv09Qt" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="432" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUhDkaviEQmeM0G-Hh834291IHjn0CrvxFYUTWYlaADIWyd7b5_fUIzg1ABPffJ3pCH-zZlJs46x97qMz7OHnGvvOkR4-UUGpI8EipG6cDMLZhUVb0cb8AvWQKCb-5Dn3OmeKS5IFfmJkjiBvU4Fb4il8dJ_lr6ALg93fo4RCj4Cem7znoF9Nv09Qt=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Good luck to you and confusion to that madman up the Khyber. We are counting on you and General Pettygree to safeguard my new posting in Delhi.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“That we plan to do Governor."</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmlsZGkkjDhh5YdkWeszuxfxZtu116wnkFt7ZMAeK4t8bhfLP4SS0Sw4AKKbf745FkLbQ8W3CkT2y2UPnGrL8CxQknFVkpvgsKWozUupgIMKn6Ir1OQfWEiHWYLPbQgD3k1enNa87nsI1EXkcCg4JZyEtY_64GdPYJtym4cS2PJqVR17y-InNhvnRN" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="432" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmlsZGkkjDhh5YdkWeszuxfxZtu116wnkFt7ZMAeK4t8bhfLP4SS0Sw4AKKbf745FkLbQ8W3CkT2y2UPnGrL8CxQknFVkpvgsKWozUupgIMKn6Ir1OQfWEiHWYLPbQgD3k1enNa87nsI1EXkcCg4JZyEtY_64GdPYJtym4cS2PJqVR17y-InNhvnRN=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Your old friends, General Pettygree, the Berkshires.”</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2pbbiKGkhGpVJMbWFWKXXDKr_vjFJLSxObE9HLooBcp0P5KgUyDxbcVHUWuYzGGyg7yVHb_KVUh7gZch9usdnQHSyNhH4O09GyE9LwjxQx_OF03xKQ1pJuP9S-61AZ6cgGQrLAXfcN8f2j27BTycMyOYd60BO-Rma7tibgJStagmC3yvQWww5d5o7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="432" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2pbbiKGkhGpVJMbWFWKXXDKr_vjFJLSxObE9HLooBcp0P5KgUyDxbcVHUWuYzGGyg7yVHb_KVUh7gZch9usdnQHSyNhH4O09GyE9LwjxQx_OF03xKQ1pJuP9S-61AZ6cgGQrLAXfcN8f2j27BTycMyOYd60BO-Rma7tibgJStagmC3yvQWww5d5o7=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"You have the right of it Lieutenant Grandmaison. They represent our final and vital reinforcement for the campaign ahead of us in The Punjab, Fort Albert and The Pass.”</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">TWO MONTHS LATER --- DELHI, PUNJAB</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvqIBUY6Hwaadbs13Y9E3JjYvY_rNIBvgxcx9xwqDF8ffstTj-SF3GjJVLaMx9bYTsMYQQdlwHS9kKKKEgPTUILK0vrpumvY9U5nwSMaMANm9q7K-WWGo_zmthuxXAm9-Aw-jDO7HrkMEyOIIdIONF5tvFM9YjC9_lT5uXxN9NAb1g61bKc87ChBFx" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="432" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvqIBUY6Hwaadbs13Y9E3JjYvY_rNIBvgxcx9xwqDF8ffstTj-SF3GjJVLaMx9bYTsMYQQdlwHS9kKKKEgPTUILK0vrpumvY9U5nwSMaMANm9q7K-WWGo_zmthuxXAm9-Aw-jDO7HrkMEyOIIdIONF5tvFM9YjC9_lT5uXxN9NAb1g61bKc87ChBFx=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Idleness, indolence and infernal waiting is our fate. At least we have this unfinished Officer’s Mess Hall for relief.”</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnEmLyytHpb4JvM6hnEc8QJ46EV1lSQxB6FxAPT9jwAPx_8VR8pBBgcRIaf9IeApyHz3VOciO-VtSMoKcP15JN3tXLf47z7dl7CTfnMA0lL9DOSIXVbaYRBGxd1t7867paF-PSCGROegzcpn93ZNrCNlBJZMxqx_lsADiroFwMLUGDhAg6UNym-hiB" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="432" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnEmLyytHpb4JvM6hnEc8QJ46EV1lSQxB6FxAPT9jwAPx_8VR8pBBgcRIaf9IeApyHz3VOciO-VtSMoKcP15JN3tXLf47z7dl7CTfnMA0lL9DOSIXVbaYRBGxd1t7867paF-PSCGROegzcpn93ZNrCNlBJZMxqx_lsADiroFwMLUGDhAg6UNym-hiB=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Findlay is vexed by
inaction, as we all are, General Pettygree.” </div></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“That’s what I like to hear from my cavalry officers, Major Hart. Keep’s them sharp and eager for the time to ride. I admit to being a bit disappointed the enemy has remained ensconced in his mountains to the northwest this long. Finishing the job once and for all to remove our nemesis is paramount. However, it requires patience and cunning if our plan of campaign is to succeed.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“General, Captain Pritchard just walked in. By his dusty appearance he looks to have ridden in from the piquet line. Possibly he brings the news we all desire,” said Hart hopefully.</div></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgA2chlGl_ymjTRkv9e4vA6Ufy9bqD26k84xa3Z7XrMuVN-CdmbET1Y_mBVM-umVS62Ng3druaCOiNyQNHZOkAOKWqjFNNgAKy6d-W_MwfRQvFbZI3Ps2B3v4oEEAYrykO2rxBxsiCI290ZP_SZIFegWfZQopFiWnswOE810T3GzRV-qU-Ex2eHpt8i" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="432" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgA2chlGl_ymjTRkv9e4vA6Ufy9bqD26k84xa3Z7XrMuVN-CdmbET1Y_mBVM-umVS62Ng3druaCOiNyQNHZOkAOKWqjFNNgAKy6d-W_MwfRQvFbZI3Ps2B3v4oEEAYrykO2rxBxsiCI290ZP_SZIFegWfZQopFiWnswOE810T3GzRV-qU-Ex2eHpt8i=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Captain Pritchard. What news do you have? Report.”</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The best General. Ragnar Khan is approaching The Pass in force. Our piquets and spies estimate his horde at 25,000 to 30,000 warriors. The baggage train of camels, carts, donkeys and handlers is considerable as well.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“25,000 or so you say? That is prodigious for a mountain Khan. He must have secured an alliance of disparate tribes for two hundred miles in all directions. Anything else, Captain?”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Two things. The first is, the piquet line and garrisons are falling back providing the intentional spectacle of disorder and haste into Fort Albert as you ordered.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The second?” inquired Pettygree.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“One of our observers caught sight of a curious force clad in white.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Surely that is Ragnar Khan’s malevolent Household Guard consisting of infantry, horsemen and ancient artillery,” said the General.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Aye General, that's what we believe."</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicQBlg8bfogOQl_XUjM455pcEjA9n3lUScx_xvA7uU-Lb7sk4CoYnd8jLW3IC44awaAWo9d8BXnsH87g4-K0nlmxzQH-UIwJa9AX1KON4j8qJB4j5Yei0Bu8-HKuokSwUP9xfQLmNGzNHp4jiWtNxT0S0J4vNSVuGch-h6vJqujlkaxusjaxrKlTVQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="461" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicQBlg8bfogOQl_XUjM455pcEjA9n3lUScx_xvA7uU-Lb7sk4CoYnd8jLW3IC44awaAWo9d8BXnsH87g4-K0nlmxzQH-UIwJa9AX1KON4j8qJB4j5Yei0Bu8-HKuokSwUP9xfQLmNGzNHp4jiWtNxT0S0J4vNSVuGch-h6vJqujlkaxusjaxrKlTVQ=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Up to 30,000 fiery warriors,” remarked Governor Catherwood.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Yes that's what Pritchard said. Our plan to hold the Frontier weakly falling back when pressed has enticed Ragnar Khan out of his lair and protective mountains. Let’s gather around and talk,” ordered Pettygree.</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkxdrAp4_-Vx0EriMdBj_mSIRnxnrUG9_RoeZzl0CgPuV5sSJl8tcvQCFbDwdREs4GU8mGQsttX7_Y4ZtUhIVG6DbQSCCl3G5bEsk2W_VSKeWxZY7MgZWjsU-xWhddhpuUJ6BxQXq6j_2qSVLKyy7eoQIFt8bx_1XBCJeHmsZLe7Bd3l3NcKK_4SIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="432" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkxdrAp4_-Vx0EriMdBj_mSIRnxnrUG9_RoeZzl0CgPuV5sSJl8tcvQCFbDwdREs4GU8mGQsttX7_Y4ZtUhIVG6DbQSCCl3G5bEsk2W_VSKeWxZY7MgZWjsU-xWhddhpuUJ6BxQXq6j_2qSVLKyy7eoQIFt8bx_1XBCJeHmsZLe7Bd3l3NcKK_4SIC=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Our leger de main appears to be working. Ragnar Khan is on the march. He will soon be in open country where he can not use the mountains for devilish hit and run tactics and secretive cover. Fort Albert blocks his march and must be attacked first before he moves farther south. Your orders are unchanged for the time being,” said Pettygree.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmtcov_h5qZ-ugxXe5mWjqgPzcsJsHhBg7yKbG-Uvhf8ec1lZ6IpfLQmYVQRHzo1CaUYUCMBif5sU_oZVJrtUW0HcHfE2sBM_DmHtXI_JHpauBb0s_K4SNnQwfGZsROIr1LxbPyY0C5GjowJ_pVlISvkBTZDajnoa4CI-Lm5dOSHN79IgtB-ZmKJXd" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="432" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmtcov_h5qZ-ugxXe5mWjqgPzcsJsHhBg7yKbG-Uvhf8ec1lZ6IpfLQmYVQRHzo1CaUYUCMBif5sU_oZVJrtUW0HcHfE2sBM_DmHtXI_JHpauBb0s_K4SNnQwfGZsROIr1LxbPyY0C5GjowJ_pVlISvkBTZDajnoa4CI-Lm5dOSHN79IgtB-ZmKJXd=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Colonel Sinclair, are the Seaforths ready to entrain for Rawalpindi?"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Aye General, my laddies have been ready awaiting your orders. May I respectfully say they have been cross and intemperate being the last to leave Delhi for The Frontier. They did nah like it much when Blakeney's 66th Foot headed north before 'em." </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"The same may be said about the half of the 10th Hussars still on station here," remarked Major Hart.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Gentlemen as you knew, we had to give an impression of weakness and dithering before dealing the knock-out punch. It is vital to remember what is at stake. I believe you wish to say what that is, Governor Catherwood.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Our sources say Ragnar Khan means to exterminate us and afterwards subjugate the entire Indian sub-continent and beyond. He may also have nefarious powerful allies we have yet to identify,” warned Catherwood."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"</span><span>Gentlemen. God's speed and confusion to the enemy!"</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">CLOSING REMARKS</b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">1. Previous chapters in sequence:</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Chapter 1: At The Gallop</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-1.html">https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-1.html</a></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Chapter 2: Half A League to the Fort</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-2.html">https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-2.html</a></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Chapter 3: Fort Albert</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/10/empire-of-wrath-chapter-3.html">https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/10/empire-of-wrath-chapter-3.html</a></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Chapter 4: Ragnar Khan </span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/11/empire-of-wrath-chapter-4.html">https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/11/empire-of-wrath-chapter-4.html</a><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">3. The General's next chapter is planned for early January 2023. Meanwhile he welcomes your remarks and sentiments at Comments below.</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">---------- ---------- ----------</span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-2020352945910920012022-11-01T19:53:00.011-05:002022-11-01T20:39:42.493-05:00EMPIRE OF WRATH Chapter 4<p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">A GENERAL PETTYGREE BATTLE STORY</b></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;">EMPIRE OF WRATH</span></b></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Chapter 4</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Ragnar Khan</span></b></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiETALKlyzRktgbm9TlsR6ycY_lC1sszlc9blKftxyRbGeZWMeR5CtAoL_g8JlsY44m66Wmciq32J0TYgO5C_GNmu1ER-bfcrRCvazBvXZ0tF4z65XfjJBUTgMSzT3y7wQpyoAT6BEvvKwziROU5WSCJZFgCgC1bfDBaiCDdJxze5EahO--OOKIJVhJ/s4145/img_0704b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2763" data-original-width="4145" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiETALKlyzRktgbm9TlsR6ycY_lC1sszlc9blKftxyRbGeZWMeR5CtAoL_g8JlsY44m66Wmciq32J0TYgO5C_GNmu1ER-bfcrRCvazBvXZ0tF4z65XfjJBUTgMSzT3y7wQpyoAT6BEvvKwziROU5WSCJZFgCgC1bfDBaiCDdJxze5EahO--OOKIJVhJ/w400-h266/img_0704b.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Ragnar Khan</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbKbvYRCNyFHHDtK6SBvCU0MR2kRg7Qby105PUR5eZMHMHJiiyni9yC0fxZxqNe5omskfx2fAlVbRz7lR3mO8WBqIqttQPYEhnY3-8frKm6gZoJyeseRKRt12IRimI6Obth-xbN2Udb9JT9ICMQ9mgZmoK-tNfAtxW8yrurBiPO3nR_ReJTtNaOTFw/s3692/img_0707b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2456" data-original-width="3692" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbKbvYRCNyFHHDtK6SBvCU0MR2kRg7Qby105PUR5eZMHMHJiiyni9yC0fxZxqNe5omskfx2fAlVbRz7lR3mO8WBqIqttQPYEhnY3-8frKm6gZoJyeseRKRt12IRimI6Obth-xbN2Udb9JT9ICMQ9mgZmoK-tNfAtxW8yrurBiPO3nR_ReJTtNaOTFw/w400-h266/img_0707b.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"Silence! --- SILENCE!," </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">demanded The Guru. "</span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">His Supreme Excellency, The Ragnar Khan will speak wisdom to you."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXQkzb4Wc9dJ1G7ill3Ur7W4Ixs2c2e9_iqarUXbRibdfnFWox8v5q2qGMQ4HZBxGfnuZzdMS67oDiMiiNdL_pG6FxVewLyTr-xvfPlUERJbY4wYWviOMjkQL2g3aBRrqqMgyfRnN9sh_bERiQM16zvfkxLxhrs7NvQ3J44j5DXdxVo-_4VEAJntfX" style="font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="432" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXQkzb4Wc9dJ1G7ill3Ur7W4Ixs2c2e9_iqarUXbRibdfnFWox8v5q2qGMQ4HZBxGfnuZzdMS67oDiMiiNdL_pG6FxVewLyTr-xvfPlUERJbY4wYWviOMjkQL2g3aBRrqqMgyfRnN9sh_bERiQM16zvfkxLxhrs7NvQ3J44j5DXdxVo-_4VEAJntfX=w400-h266" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"Household Guardsmen! The time we have waited for is imminent. General Pettygree’s Imperialist Army plans to visit us. His advance units are even now at Fort Albert while more regiments have disembarked in Bombay Harbour. However, we will not wait for them here in our mountain stronghold. Instead, we will move south through the Pass vanishing within the ancient Secret Cavern exiting onto the plain below to destroy them all forever." </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A tumultuous roar of approbation arose.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"Our Army is assembling as I speak. Indeed, an ally approaches whom I must now greet. So for a brief time I must leave you. Meanwhile, you my Guards, must prepare spiritually, physically and materially to repel the vile trespassers. Be my extreme example of bravery and skill. Our cause is righteous. When I call upon you to crush them, be ready!”</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Loud affirmations, praise, oaths and bloodthirsty epithets arose from the multitude.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Later</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiu0yST0_cF8_WcDu1NWOph_Qp7PSI9Z6bFVnRN_3nUANZ3kZq4zn0PWiS0RqdcD0J51IsR5yP-vNjefeewmcCANGdTusbnAJqzj1YuFeLFFeJOnankZqf7LUv3xJTdxp_-6-LaqvzEbRq18-VrdcLEot8QDbyssa-aLA81znwpPsCFpuBOk1YZ9Zj" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="432" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiu0yST0_cF8_WcDu1NWOph_Qp7PSI9Z6bFVnRN_3nUANZ3kZq4zn0PWiS0RqdcD0J51IsR5yP-vNjefeewmcCANGdTusbnAJqzj1YuFeLFFeJOnankZqf7LUv3xJTdxp_-6-LaqvzEbRq18-VrdcLEot8QDbyssa-aLA81znwpPsCFpuBOk1YZ9Zj=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Take me to my Fortress Tower."</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvn4wDatvR3ERqUF27V-NnddaF6hK9bwuFkJheq7R4XsFN0UQSoF_MXXM0q1V_XsR06sBt0GNErfFgxQwGUTTm9DQPRI0RRM9FiXaNgdUnW4czCNuZR9PYNHK3xqhGPNN7pVKTHe8ofOJiY808K_ZfXmi9KgmD92dVjFdjV6HDhMxg0HwYj6XNauAf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="432" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvn4wDatvR3ERqUF27V-NnddaF6hK9bwuFkJheq7R4XsFN0UQSoF_MXXM0q1V_XsR06sBt0GNErfFgxQwGUTTm9DQPRI0RRM9FiXaNgdUnW4czCNuZR9PYNHK3xqhGPNN7pVKTHe8ofOJiY808K_ZfXmi9KgmD92dVjFdjV6HDhMxg0HwYj6XNauAf=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Silently to himself Ragnar Khan said, "My allies approach."</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNXvvLZZJw0KI_fKcoj4NyUamBfyM_TMFpneFNCcVNwFSQkCstlgxJ2NYmM3Am9tDJ0uc82-IuA406pbEQ-EEfqtZWngE5E3AP8qkm0g0z7d2gCp-jb-Pn_sPDzhfaAFGiXXOjyk42v6hYMKQ_ijqVuTIVSm6-AboMg1wehn-2FcJb7Vn2chnDH3VD" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="432" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNXvvLZZJw0KI_fKcoj4NyUamBfyM_TMFpneFNCcVNwFSQkCstlgxJ2NYmM3Am9tDJ0uc82-IuA406pbEQ-EEfqtZWngE5E3AP8qkm0g0z7d2gCp-jb-Pn_sPDzhfaAFGiXXOjyk42v6hYMKQ_ijqVuTIVSm6-AboMg1wehn-2FcJb7Vn2chnDH3VD=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><span>Continuing interiorly, "Now the third player, </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Villainovich, arrives for The Great
Game between Pettygree and I. His contingent is smaller than agreed upon though. Is
this minimalism or duplicity? Disappointment ignites within my heart. However, we shall see.”</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0zmU2CdOIJ2noK6r8RAwGwnQ8ML8Yv0fNS1oRL1xFqhPntxuvWNOmNdo4_hB4KKcDMdSsy94--0X7nu1917zqjl4PsLjtGsqLsH0No4fR0nzsuKGgWm4xMsxnZsYqF8suTEQMi53j61QRQWHpBcS6Wrd6AJ3McGoiJfB8LBHL7BR6wR3fv84Xn6C0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="432" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0zmU2CdOIJ2noK6r8RAwGwnQ8ML8Yv0fNS1oRL1xFqhPntxuvWNOmNdo4_hB4KKcDMdSsy94--0X7nu1917zqjl4PsLjtGsqLsH0No4fR0nzsuKGgWm4xMsxnZsYqF8suTEQMi53j61QRQWHpBcS6Wrd6AJ3McGoiJfB8LBHL7BR6wR3fv84Xn6C0=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">"Husband, I sense malevolence."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">“Steady my dear. For the moment we are all cherished friends.”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">“Da, Antonovich but he exudes a….”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOpHRh4yEivZESLyc5wtfDZ12ezc_U3EIbXbBZVHepkzrsEN7szxwsSPVqzrXFDY2Jutl6YZgaz6cq7A0v5uD-p_eXZGzImYJQBZ7LPgX8U3sebc7lRjgsidqRBZuEvH8aUkTYfItOU_a3BjTUFaHEoHlqMn2BESgKcsho53tfj_uaPNmIYArstG91" style="font-family: times; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="432" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOpHRh4yEivZESLyc5wtfDZ12ezc_U3EIbXbBZVHepkzrsEN7szxwsSPVqzrXFDY2Jutl6YZgaz6cq7A0v5uD-p_eXZGzImYJQBZ7LPgX8U3sebc7lRjgsidqRBZuEvH8aUkTYfItOU_a3BjTUFaHEoHlqMn2BESgKcsho53tfj_uaPNmIYArstG91=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“Distinguished yet frightful bearing," whispered the Countess.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Not now dear one. Not now.”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSbrIpah2rmUU1OB5fVwEicOc6DMUPZSo2zuaFintJwvWu3MUx3LNIsYcnlNJtP8Pfg4RP1oxeN-BwJXIn9YCyfbl_cSzetDpT5rpbcqPHx7XDiKS6kieJUmqRjFcUGq_WAXmcvQS8zYQSAZ3xC3K8K5LqucexNMnlJpK5Z4quhV-n7oD-YaNeBdBh" style="font-family: times; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="432" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSbrIpah2rmUU1OB5fVwEicOc6DMUPZSo2zuaFintJwvWu3MUx3LNIsYcnlNJtP8Pfg4RP1oxeN-BwJXIn9YCyfbl_cSzetDpT5rpbcqPHx7XDiKS6kieJUmqRjFcUGq_WAXmcvQS8zYQSAZ3xC3K8K5LqucexNMnlJpK5Z4quhV-n7oD-YaNeBdBh=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Count Colonel Villainovich and Countess Vanya Elizaveta! Welcome to Vandahar Palace. I beg you to accept my humble hospitality. Please enter for a poor if hopefully tolerable refreshment and rest. Tomorrow evening a banquet with entertainments will be held in your honour.” <br /><br /> “We are grateful for your infinite kindness Ragnar Khan,” said Count Villainovich.</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Ragnar Khan's Entertainment The Next Day</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmk2Rk0sU1gtrkITNtr9vrlpjr9VZgNVJp8GdMgA1kdbwAYwGw4oCJhQjngP46S9im9lEzv38kTULxfvpv4_hOZV0GfLK-NLUjWobuMnfTc0qXPiVoojHd2-xUJs2UjrEooGhgLqF4KxpJwL_b6kCVdRyg3JcUWGPp6HKHAk9yYDKNKHzY__C-a3yp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="432" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmk2Rk0sU1gtrkITNtr9vrlpjr9VZgNVJp8GdMgA1kdbwAYwGw4oCJhQjngP46S9im9lEzv38kTULxfvpv4_hOZV0GfLK-NLUjWobuMnfTc0qXPiVoojHd2-xUJs2UjrEooGhgLqF4KxpJwL_b6kCVdRyg3JcUWGPp6HKHAk9yYDKNKHzY__C-a3yp=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Ragnar Khan, we gratefully thank you for that prodigious feast,” said the Count.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"You honoured me indeed. I am unable to offer more than simple fare in these mountains. Yet the mature buzzard eggs and goat's eyes are unique delicacies we proudly offer on special occasions such as this one."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"The vodka accompaniment made them ed...., ah, especially tasteful."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Thank you. Next, would you please accompany me to the promised entertainment?”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxomn6bvj4eLTJc_FiNPOVoOAONWvsCuO0wvSDEuGabmmYJCxk_QemSPdTB_yksRT2s1J3cvUORuCG_Sx9niHUWhCBCx7f_XVNX3U_7eYd_1n-9LVsAVWCW5ykuPkJE2EqI8lZfGKvxDP8sc_eQMu-nm5iaT94Wp2CMILFGYByL7FX9LXVVSKOiIc_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="432" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxomn6bvj4eLTJc_FiNPOVoOAONWvsCuO0wvSDEuGabmmYJCxk_QemSPdTB_yksRT2s1J3cvUORuCG_Sx9niHUWhCBCx7f_XVNX3U_7eYd_1n-9LVsAVWCW5ykuPkJE2EqI8lZfGKvxDP8sc_eQMu-nm5iaT94Wp2CMILFGYByL7FX9LXVVSKOiIc_=w400-h266" width="400" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxomn6bvj4eLTJc_FiNPOVoOAONWvsCuO0wvSDEuGabmmYJCxk_QemSPdTB_yksRT2s1J3cvUORuCG_Sx9niHUWhCBCx7f_XVNX3U_7eYd_1n-9LVsAVWCW5ykuPkJE2EqI8lZfGKvxDP8sc_eQMu-nm5iaT94Wp2CMILFGYByL7FX9LXVVSKOiIc_"></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Welcome to my arena." </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipHewMdyiQiZLF5ZEFk8_pGu3dwedXWqRSwq9oAR7YRwtDA8uyFphel0Gt_nkpcUJBFWgkL28Iy1CMxME5bgAs_Cm0m7gpOsDIgU6t75Wy6frSFwzhHAvY8MvBLWgvkcFPMkcfTcuuIqo6Hi1kS2QepTX2urnKpUiBXHJbhfd0b1uyFR-4NAXvYSqe=w400-h266" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"It's poor resemblance to those of ancient Rome is pitiable, but they did not have Valsun.”</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Valsun, your Excellency?,” asked Countess Vanya Elizaveta.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Yes, a very rare creature acquired from the Chinese Emperor. You will see her in a few minutes. An amazing acquisition, I assure you. We call her Val.”</div></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgY0d33e1SZi8L4Ux2zxwH7z7WIXcnT1z3IJi8XwJxenupkMU4cEpvtsI_CpwoRipk0p-1JqK1U4gWU-_IGkvsThvprcvRFZERwR_AbjUd3XdJ5xpeTeZ4I10N4DKcHr6gIvTLC1yYtwGTImhG82gu79-dKWJ49YBNWOzHAl4j59YjMmnSljbQsBQK-" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="432" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgY0d33e1SZi8L4Ux2zxwH7z7WIXcnT1z3IJi8XwJxenupkMU4cEpvtsI_CpwoRipk0p-1JqK1U4gWU-_IGkvsThvprcvRFZERwR_AbjUd3XdJ5xpeTeZ4I10N4DKcHr6gIvTLC1yYtwGTImhG82gu79-dKWJ49YBNWOzHAl4j59YjMmnSljbQsBQK-=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">“Husband look.”</span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhW1ioUNics30ui0WeA6yV5qNcpc8_jQ-1ze5oFfQ0JE6CUeR-RPNti3cpE9OzimrtHBrx2IB4TNPVnHdeEbM0KPQeSUczg4Ql6mwl3--I1p5kAC9YimJQnpn-F-6jWWmPPh1rMAo1GIZuijCXwC-5BPyTrGFwbV_AVV2GySo1BcFUWjLNDeTwzpBI_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="432" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhW1ioUNics30ui0WeA6yV5qNcpc8_jQ-1ze5oFfQ0JE6CUeR-RPNti3cpE9OzimrtHBrx2IB4TNPVnHdeEbM0KPQeSUczg4Ql6mwl3--I1p5kAC9YimJQnpn-F-6jWWmPPh1rMAo1GIZuijCXwC-5BPyTrGFwbV_AVV2GySo1BcFUWjLNDeTwzpBI_=w400-h266" width="400" /><br /></a></div><a href="#"></a></span><span style="font-size: medium;">“What is the meaning of this? Is that woman Val?”</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">“Not at all Countess. She is a criminal found guilty of the high crime of betrayal; treason, if you will. She is therefore an unpardonable unbeliever in my just and holy cause.”</div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"What is her crime, if I may inquire?"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Nonconformity of thought leading to forbidden speech opposing our beliefs. Our code of laws demand that intolerant speech traitors be executed by being torn asunder. Unity of thought, belief and behavior is our strength. Conformity is essential."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixVZvyBjYLCMufGYVN1TAAJYHBMlq7Mrk-WkRqjhJkH8EsaKph3HgI7LUvGeILRRZmP1aDDypnmYa-XyUOW7PdQ24z6zEYsUB6emp-MC5lYAbzyy2SuXduDzUcUKgBdG-XhuLsa7zjIqgy1BgoNV0ZW4qlFYpUsFdnl5L2ICLyCX7IwUHx4u3G03P8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="432" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixVZvyBjYLCMufGYVN1TAAJYHBMlq7Mrk-WkRqjhJkH8EsaKph3HgI7LUvGeILRRZmP1aDDypnmYa-XyUOW7PdQ24z6zEYsUB6emp-MC5lYAbzyy2SuXduDzUcUKgBdG-XhuLsa7zjIqgy1BgoNV0ZW4qlFYpUsFdnl5L2ICLyCX7IwUHx4u3G03P8=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"May I present, the Chinese dragon, Valsun? Lovely and remarkable isn’t she?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Countess?"</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirv2y0EdtVaRpuC4-Oiukhb_7mSSueXcsgjCAKLNWfBbVGITGrwkPhEVBABExNFTjhTVgz_noZTLZ4DIIEM3t-pmkuq_Z0nmxFUX1Bczl_2zxiHLaUTHO-Ij4DvZj4Ljoa7OT7CaUKtnSXP8SjyY3ls6XBoMXCWG6NZZKW74AvkQJ9c1eSIaSeteOC" style="font-family: times; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="432" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirv2y0EdtVaRpuC4-Oiukhb_7mSSueXcsgjCAKLNWfBbVGITGrwkPhEVBABExNFTjhTVgz_noZTLZ4DIIEM3t-pmkuq_Z0nmxFUX1Bczl_2zxiHLaUTHO-Ij4DvZj4Ljoa7OT7CaUKtnSXP8SjyY3ls6XBoMXCWG6NZZKW74AvkQJ9c1eSIaSeteOC=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">“Your Excellency. Would you be so kind as to excuse me from this sport? The high mountain air is suppressing my breath. The only remedy is to take to my bed. Please accept my sincere and distressed apology.”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> “Yes of course Countess. I am to blame for not suggesting more rest to acclimate you to our thin high mountain air. By all means retire. Tomorrow will surely see you restored."</span><br /><br /></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQu1YnXRIDap9y3OTr1tRymOF4hLlleAgHab7CEj06vB29EqzmDn65LI6JHWiQx8-srFcgyjKZbs0weEsebTKTpUwMLq_tX1ezzfcWqSSIIcG9__bY2k7gBgUOAE1CVgiOcLMWgzb7UarX_JbxG_IhDjW3WHRRrzZfwz2_cwh89V4zQbI7nFuOsILB" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="432" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQu1YnXRIDap9y3OTr1tRymOF4hLlleAgHab7CEj06vB29EqzmDn65LI6JHWiQx8-srFcgyjKZbs0weEsebTKTpUwMLq_tX1ezzfcWqSSIIcG9__bY2k7gBgUOAE1CVgiOcLMWgzb7UarX_JbxG_IhDjW3WHRRrzZfwz2_cwh89V4zQbI7nFuOsILB=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Piteous screams and shrieks soon came from the arena as the dragon approached, tore the prisoner apart and then ate the red-haired young woman piece by piece. Finally only the spectator's barbaric tumultuous roaring, laughter and cheering were heard as the woman's intolerable thoughts were forever silenced.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">CLOSING REMARKS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">1. Previous chapters in sequence:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Chapter 1: At The Gallop</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-1.html">https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-1.html</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Chapter 2: Half A League to the Fort</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-2.html">https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-2.html</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Chapter 3: Fort Albert</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/10/empire-of-wrath-chapter-3.html">https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/10/empire-of-wrath-chapter-3.html</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">2. Chapter 5: The Blood Moon is in production. The anticipated release date is early December 2022. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">3. Meanwhile the General welcomes your remarks and sentiments at Comments below.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">---------- ---------- ----------</span></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-37458323550496801522022-10-15T08:08:00.003-05:002022-10-16T18:46:22.898-05:00EMPIRE OF WRATH Chapter 3<p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-size: medium;">A GENERAL PETTYGREE BATTLE STORY</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-size: large;">EMPIRE OF WRATH</span></b></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-size: large;">Chapter 3</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Fort Albert</span></b></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Previously 1/10 Hussars en-route to Fort Albert were shockingly pursued at the gallop by Ragnar Khan's horsemen. Only the unexpected intervention of Imperial forces very recently arrived at the abandoned base turned the foe away. All is well.</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgywvUbeiIKOHMZ61VObz9RhHgmFLjkHMH11YQfDr315aZyrIz70CWjddmNcnezQWrtQPL9Ipj6AyBfxnt6GNtFIj9GRTB8iY9rdp1Ntv-gY3rrI70uljk6Myt8S8s-0r_rsCaHQw0_ntbvlIrPGmQuStcsumWhTNF190CGrbPvVlO-yINAaDmW12jR/w400-h267/img_4454b.jpg" width="400" /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Here we observe a rearguard section of the 27th Bombay Miners and Sappers screening the just arrived Hussars from the chase by Ragnar Khan's cavalry.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUTu5m-LYVnNkiyhpkHkd_pzrPMm1yVxujYE82VQOc3EXTHvmp7NyhuQ1CY-yacpTeFTiVqLp_7x8Ut3CIH0vp_PAzhJfvpdylHCJ8I0_Ad0yrq8Qo4Iv9H0l7BD6w3rE4B2Wj6UwMo_jCTBmvqCnbKzRz3kZvlRYRIlN4kXDBkuzibx0MmgYFT6zP/s3888/img_4445.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUTu5m-LYVnNkiyhpkHkd_pzrPMm1yVxujYE82VQOc3EXTHvmp7NyhuQ1CY-yacpTeFTiVqLp_7x8Ut3CIH0vp_PAzhJfvpdylHCJ8I0_Ad0yrq8Qo4Iv9H0l7BD6w3rE4B2Wj6UwMo_jCTBmvqCnbKzRz3kZvlRYRIlN4kXDBkuzibx0MmgYFT6zP/w400-h400/img_4445.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Whenever you're ready Captain Bartlett, we can process into Fort Albert."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjja48G0iebCvGIU99ejy5bmyY23TjRdyiiFzkGkGtSKY0sDwes7CUp3sAfZXxdPE1omHWfhXqk2AJaPA_aCbMbKAbu3XuSJC6hdPXYuM6fuham4SuarAGZbVH-uFKEM1av3g09boOSE7c3Y8K-lryv7O7UmIzY87BhXJKADquXGKe371E4-qrs1int/w400-h400/img_4446.jpg" /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"We're formed and ready Captain Caddy."</div></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"1st Troop --- Attention! --- Column of twos, by the right wheel --- Bugler Land --- Play Gary Owen! --- March!"</div></span><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHJ2cVWOkBCptWJaaaf-EkLRmQzhkNF7Z7FWjjV8O9WNk36i8DrtpPbjbjsJlDhFZCd_bNA5uVx-zRQqruPckBQe_crFG8J1GPaAMDlvhsHYlIS2x9obboZ9-ZhMzmTi4uCgFpZOqIINbUu5rg8r9qo7AtgoIspSX9c0fxLgqxfHu1eCCeBWxu7Lif/s3888/img_4452b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHJ2cVWOkBCptWJaaaf-EkLRmQzhkNF7Z7FWjjV8O9WNk36i8DrtpPbjbjsJlDhFZCd_bNA5uVx-zRQqruPckBQe_crFG8J1GPaAMDlvhsHYlIS2x9obboZ9-ZhMzmTi4uCgFpZOqIINbUu5rg8r9qo7AtgoIspSX9c0fxLgqxfHu1eCCeBWxu7Lif/w400-h266/img_4452b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqbDmRtbi-XLdvNAgqQIH-qXCuG9eH-XK0lm_tFZnZMmcSJamfR8H8ji-pEZhtjCiW2Z3hrqcrNion6W-Y1dnOsVqJaSDe1I-JE4gbVwNTkoNCFqxLi5s-a0Upw5b--9VpkUxEn05PjBu8LdxZyiiYVc93HvJqxFvzvWv7MOGA1g_ds7DJzrxBsOJI/s3888/img_4451.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqbDmRtbi-XLdvNAgqQIH-qXCuG9eH-XK0lm_tFZnZMmcSJamfR8H8ji-pEZhtjCiW2Z3hrqcrNion6W-Y1dnOsVqJaSDe1I-JE4gbVwNTkoNCFqxLi5s-a0Upw5b--9VpkUxEn05PjBu8LdxZyiiYVc93HvJqxFvzvWv7MOGA1g_ds7DJzrxBsOJI/w400-h400/img_4451.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Quite proper we should lead the troop in Trooper Corey."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Naturally, Trooper Ham."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Gupta too, Sahibs!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Bark, bark, bark," excitedly sounded Jack.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFSHlj6U7yAFBEKkT3bWBnk8d2vnflAPSRBAafD7n5tghr5seF3HeSv98FoDK4fiszldTMZTIGTXphQvHc-azZhGXLZgy_hHXo8tb1HIGLH4d7Zo5vcUN3TUomhgCm9IupDpng7PbwvDZBdXmHo1fEuYFTBN0eTTGIZ3zlvs_38xdcr6mOU3dSq6ia/s3888/img_4450.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFSHlj6U7yAFBEKkT3bWBnk8d2vnflAPSRBAafD7n5tghr5seF3HeSv98FoDK4fiszldTMZTIGTXphQvHc-azZhGXLZgy_hHXo8tb1HIGLH4d7Zo5vcUN3TUomhgCm9IupDpng7PbwvDZBdXmHo1fEuYFTBN0eTTGIZ3zlvs_38xdcr6mOU3dSq6ia/w400-h400/img_4450.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>"Look smart you Miners and Sappers or I'll know why," ordered Lt. Edson.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Four Days Later</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnFvC0vkReq3unQAUy_iUxxEXSz1T2BOWHW3fBG-jOmEl7sxBSMZFjByLr4qoK3BqRlEfRLu_ISO2DBz5JIpqMXKoL9gA2KTeclL3nA3oMYF2pyzLmg7KYrz-Klyc9tD44FPXWjyYUu3EzNy0wbqSch560QRWW4LoTKyNh-oo9AghvSdaGg-lZGV5/s3888/img_4455.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnFvC0vkReq3unQAUy_iUxxEXSz1T2BOWHW3fBG-jOmEl7sxBSMZFjByLr4qoK3BqRlEfRLu_ISO2DBz5JIpqMXKoL9gA2KTeclL3nA3oMYF2pyzLmg7KYrz-Klyc9tD44FPXWjyYUu3EzNy0wbqSch560QRWW4LoTKyNh-oo9AghvSdaGg-lZGV5/w400-h400/img_4455.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">"This way Sabs'. Gupta will show what needs repair.</div></span><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibpFu3lXkGFbF5M2k_o3dQe8AFbHdWmQZMKlEhZO0ae7GVBJzMj0g030_9uZbGzp2DugPFj8d-julBDVaPktBxxgydTt4W37d8v23SzqqqKTiEOMVdoxvpH17UQGftESoMBn5fEj8rwbT4YpvtI9y_wZ4Q8NvkEy7TO9iHSG3r0embPS5Nga3MFwtF/s3888/img_4461.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibpFu3lXkGFbF5M2k_o3dQe8AFbHdWmQZMKlEhZO0ae7GVBJzMj0g030_9uZbGzp2DugPFj8d-julBDVaPktBxxgydTt4W37d8v23SzqqqKTiEOMVdoxvpH17UQGftESoMBn5fEj8rwbT4YpvtI9y_wZ4Q8NvkEy7TO9iHSG3r0embPS5Nga3MFwtF/w400-h400/img_4461.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Trooper Ham. Remember the prodigious blast from the tower when we arrived?"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"I do indeed, Trooper Corey. Did the Lion Cannon cause this Gupta?"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"No Sabs'. It was like this before."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"I'll bet a month's pay Ragner Khan did this months ago," commented Ham. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpv9B6SSSpZ8-6wsImydCsV7jBtqPwtjtl27-7smwMyQ5sffVZ9sSXN8C4ee4qC7CpKq55O9XjNjwN_l-psCoJdS_zShdPUki0-lJetRgVgpcje7RCUJJCyhSoEs9MV2Oe6b5zzWIO593P7_Y8JLCeaF6rt9rb5XFGamgzF1Qk-JZyH5__0CXsr_AS/s3888/img_4456.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpv9B6SSSpZ8-6wsImydCsV7jBtqPwtjtl27-7smwMyQ5sffVZ9sSXN8C4ee4qC7CpKq55O9XjNjwN_l-psCoJdS_zShdPUki0-lJetRgVgpcje7RCUJJCyhSoEs9MV2Oe6b5zzWIO593P7_Y8JLCeaF6rt9rb5XFGamgzF1Qk-JZyH5__0CXsr_AS/w400-h400/img_4456.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">"Look what else he did," said Gupta.</div></span><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkfmnfjgTmwK0tlIomNee1DtBlYX4QZVPRoSMfa-pCU2dpyDK5_GtVxsqLaQQdOG_JJlcVwJxz-UuknieTgoDM9nc0Kr-rjyljpic-vEoZucpPccBCMNnCwi18FT2uujOIR-dXu5vdD4Y9I82r8zDNCacSw5p8zeETQHFtWoiMBIuwG-UTdugBgl1j/s3616/img_4457b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2416" data-original-width="3616" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkfmnfjgTmwK0tlIomNee1DtBlYX4QZVPRoSMfa-pCU2dpyDK5_GtVxsqLaQQdOG_JJlcVwJxz-UuknieTgoDM9nc0Kr-rjyljpic-vEoZucpPccBCMNnCwi18FT2uujOIR-dXu5vdD4Y9I82r8zDNCacSw5p8zeETQHFtWoiMBIuwG-UTdugBgl1j/w400-h268/img_4457b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"My, my," said Corey.</span><br /><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Half of the north wall has been razed," observed Ham.</span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"What's Sergeant Wilcoxin saying?," inquired Corey.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCFRTS9q_6cqlhXYNM3kSJh0UOdQdYdRhv33juewWbmyvqIfV5i6gjgSMKXLMevYwEowxfVi_sIj4x89lQE2r7EsXDFEH_q6YB-QKkD4sADvl4k1utAD4HTY0NTXSWYI3iV_BkJC1S2NoWvCQpO0R4kcMDw9ROZukmVBLUoJ_adKB9uNdpih_LQBVQ/s3888/img_4459.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCFRTS9q_6cqlhXYNM3kSJh0UOdQdYdRhv33juewWbmyvqIfV5i6gjgSMKXLMevYwEowxfVi_sIj4x89lQE2r7EsXDFEH_q6YB-QKkD4sADvl4k1utAD4HTY0NTXSWYI3iV_BkJC1S2NoWvCQpO0R4kcMDw9ROZukmVBLUoJ_adKB9uNdpih_LQBVQ/w400-h400/img_4459.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Captain Caddy, Sir, this raffle needs some dyneemight to clear away the area before we can effect repair of the wall. Pickaxes and shovels just can't do the job fast enough with Ragnar Khan expected. Plus, as you see, Sir, the work party is indolent. Explosions will cheer the men immensely."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu1BNeUxqjl--QGOpJETs7QK9BCCtYACyDLwyG2CuLiQFj22V0htcyXVcJ8vY42U73xnbnmO7rzxEWYZp76ch63A6eMcShLfAarqXvNfMznSyLks-dgpHczLIuX_b5O72OQlNFsHw3RsCfqpZJGfcTUr8jJThWuYjH8OgOoIDwC4iEBpxXT_lqc8wM/s3888/img_4460.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu1BNeUxqjl--QGOpJETs7QK9BCCtYACyDLwyG2CuLiQFj22V0htcyXVcJ8vY42U73xnbnmO7rzxEWYZp76ch63A6eMcShLfAarqXvNfMznSyLks-dgpHczLIuX_b5O72OQlNFsHw3RsCfqpZJGfcTUr8jJThWuYjH8OgOoIDwC4iEBpxXT_lqc8wM/w400-h400/img_4460.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Clearing his throat, "Hmm. A full or half stick then, Sergeant?"</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeherBxaDpcjUE_q1SCspFg6j0owZasz89LuHwZcljDpi6IozvTrZpEKHRB2YRCss2WhfuKa1gYg_weuQNwLEQDL7UXngOFKHomVv95xVJSe2FquHizrUCDn-Gi0Su8HY-zDZsEP9VnzD_NzCD6ag2TRI3PYg9bpYl8MU_S2hw0nvSrY-2R5w3qp3A/s3888/img_4464.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeherBxaDpcjUE_q1SCspFg6j0owZasz89LuHwZcljDpi6IozvTrZpEKHRB2YRCss2WhfuKa1gYg_weuQNwLEQDL7UXngOFKHomVv95xVJSe2FquHizrUCDn-Gi0Su8HY-zDZsEP9VnzD_NzCD6ag2TRI3PYg9bpYl8MU_S2hw0nvSrY-2R5w3qp3A/w400-h400/img_4464.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Well Sir, a might less I'm think'n. Spread out. Otherwise we might bring down the whole north face."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC7PZ9CwpADnAzDF45MNgVBJA0CgOs01qPJ78MZrepvoNxkHfkjIdAq4yk67he1jTGVXXsdk-1IoIxaOtRzrI_PWPtUSMS1fR9KrXKjWLyKpa1gIqADwhlmCOJ-8d-p61RDue1GzYM2XxoRhcK2USZArg6czUzKO0VImLB3Y3YyBbxy-xejVfcPrqq/s3107/img_4460b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2073" data-original-width="3107" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC7PZ9CwpADnAzDF45MNgVBJA0CgOs01qPJ78MZrepvoNxkHfkjIdAq4yk67he1jTGVXXsdk-1IoIxaOtRzrI_PWPtUSMS1fR9KrXKjWLyKpa1gIqADwhlmCOJ-8d-p61RDue1GzYM2XxoRhcK2USZArg6czUzKO0VImLB3Y3YyBbxy-xejVfcPrqq/w400-h268/img_4460b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Caddy, I don't like Wilcoxin's plan. You're the engineer though. What will it be?"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Aye Captain Bartlett. Alright Sergeant. A three quarter stick broken in parts spread out in the rubble. When can you be ready to light the fuses?"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"In one hour, Sah! Maybe less."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Carry on Sergeant. The garrison will evacuate to the west of the tower just in case. Lookouts! Anything in sight?" </div></span><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp7hwvt4jZpWkm7we6hddDJ4uckptzV0CE_PH3H2kwFnlNAKwl8rOWd8j3HqxseP4bPDrZ58pB1meA7nJ8Cj8vzdQR_zMX6z89mfZBBbS1yFHM2BrDgLEKnsAjKI37vE3LvdYkKVYoTMkkx_VYspwue7y2CP12DuQsyYK3RFduSSMv8m1J7muF2Slr/s2911/img_4460c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2911" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp7hwvt4jZpWkm7we6hddDJ4uckptzV0CE_PH3H2kwFnlNAKwl8rOWd8j3HqxseP4bPDrZ58pB1meA7nJ8Cj8vzdQR_zMX6z89mfZBBbS1yFHM2BrDgLEKnsAjKI37vE3LvdYkKVYoTMkkx_VYspwue7y2CP12DuQsyYK3RFduSSMv8m1J7muF2Slr/w400-h268/img_4460c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Nothing Sir to the north. No enemy in sight."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ0fCSJa8iB7h7eoChKO9n_Op7pksXA-X56GEw08bajHqsu4glEkeA2ldY8bzP62fyVmCrel44P30wNxJ1-tW_qwoglNiH1HWZLf_B9feZ6okoR6GoeNEWS3U1eNeXHhGSf4ZR7sH6yT7eOngdFW9Un96oQrLv0zA-vM0jl5q265fp6h3AXvuqi8dy/s3888/img_4462.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ0fCSJa8iB7h7eoChKO9n_Op7pksXA-X56GEw08bajHqsu4glEkeA2ldY8bzP62fyVmCrel44P30wNxJ1-tW_qwoglNiH1HWZLf_B9feZ6okoR6GoeNEWS3U1eNeXHhGSf4ZR7sH6yT7eOngdFW9Un96oQrLv0zA-vM0jl5q265fp6h3AXvuqi8dy/w400-h400/img_4462.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Tower reporting Sir. Nothing in sight from the south. However, a heliograph report from the west says the 1st Sikh Regiment will arrive in one day."</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKYtNjQRFgxqNefAjWPlTd5oWXAf8tc8GLlIljirLsXYMTElOverVHgPJO4NCLZ8vje1YTRxGPYCjdPn-qWoz5_CzutWmm2XPqN8ijyMLaU9TA6GhqIjXoRi72BzLxbT2UBP0xXDDvm2WJM9sVM3utBGgp3dIitsyqJqpcQ6idcr7IUYrjgQgceU2/s3888/img_4463.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKYtNjQRFgxqNefAjWPlTd5oWXAf8tc8GLlIljirLsXYMTElOverVHgPJO4NCLZ8vje1YTRxGPYCjdPn-qWoz5_CzutWmm2XPqN8ijyMLaU9TA6GhqIjXoRi72BzLxbT2UBP0xXDDvm2WJM9sVM3utBGgp3dIitsyqJqpcQ6idcr7IUYrjgQgceU2/w400-h400/img_4463.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"You heard that Officer of Engineers, said Corey.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Yes. Let's go down an' stroll to the west outside the fort to watch the show," said Ham.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Gupta, too!"</span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-size: large;"><b>One Hour Later</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiPSugPcjKY5tqcn_-Ape-8xuMttCuBc4G9Rpz6I-1UB3xPYq5xClsKiCNSv0ePKhwEkyb33slkG5C2Sy9-Gg_VqKfi_n9N0WYLPt3JQyorScyF91_5cKo5XkaM_1e9Z6t40qAOBnXZU0X3jeBmVNYO-xGBUdTQl70VS_u6e7NhFKk-jVtZbGFL2R-/s3745/img_4475b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2502" data-original-width="3745" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiPSugPcjKY5tqcn_-Ape-8xuMttCuBc4G9Rpz6I-1UB3xPYq5xClsKiCNSv0ePKhwEkyb33slkG5C2Sy9-Gg_VqKfi_n9N0WYLPt3JQyorScyF91_5cKo5XkaM_1e9Z6t40qAOBnXZU0X3jeBmVNYO-xGBUdTQl70VS_u6e7NhFKk-jVtZbGFL2R-/w400-h268/img_4475b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Any time now, remarked Captain Caddy RE."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbCn42j02GSYTKmpV-3KEot7fTonYBsbdaFv5aa-AwnGSTD0oHjWl6aSTTcjosLMoXxeTxkB_yAl8_XMhUHQas7-9S64WoeX34vowuuWk3uXKEY6Q2js3JAisa499FOw7qSj6mnV6PJx8vfruc4m93Ndo66AMfYCTsE1wdiXrrXiN32VPudwatBAeC/s3455/img_4474b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2306" data-original-width="3455" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbCn42j02GSYTKmpV-3KEot7fTonYBsbdaFv5aa-AwnGSTD0oHjWl6aSTTcjosLMoXxeTxkB_yAl8_XMhUHQas7-9S64WoeX34vowuuWk3uXKEY6Q2js3JAisa499FOw7qSj6mnV6PJx8vfruc4m93Ndo66AMfYCTsE1wdiXrrXiN32VPudwatBAeC/w400-h268/img_4474b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0ynqI4qKHrLqs6GuJQfstMog-qV2jmCuaBSNAHz7RP-Vl2ts0L4qH4A36rn3ozMlW1E73P6rfcx0U39AfuakOljpbIi5FQHG_Pf_znzjOJTl1N8JVm5dY2GTPL6W3exDVGNEt7CyhvB2iZ832Wclgsy6DU63VHcC77pzmMmliHvbo40DLn4CP5XK/s3888/img_4476b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0ynqI4qKHrLqs6GuJQfstMog-qV2jmCuaBSNAHz7RP-Vl2ts0L4qH4A36rn3ozMlW1E73P6rfcx0U39AfuakOljpbIi5FQHG_Pf_znzjOJTl1N8JVm5dY2GTPL6W3exDVGNEt7CyhvB2iZ832Wclgsy6DU63VHcC77pzmMmliHvbo40DLn4CP5XK/w400-h266/img_4476b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivyC_29pC2MZQPj3Kg5yVVHoiIvz7DJY0H2Y_bF1WQuPtL5mvHq2CaymKzCwCYNB0dNG06CTccJyuq8XyJt6iSHW8-mCzplEb_68jCe99UnhMNlolehwh86UfdDZidQvFQ0nGFiBwiVpUyhFuYa22dOJrL-YvlaJ98ZSL7SKkCAxvvLUHAGygsA3x_/s3888/img_4477.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivyC_29pC2MZQPj3Kg5yVVHoiIvz7DJY0H2Y_bF1WQuPtL5mvHq2CaymKzCwCYNB0dNG06CTccJyuq8XyJt6iSHW8-mCzplEb_68jCe99UnhMNlolehwh86UfdDZidQvFQ0nGFiBwiVpUyhFuYa22dOJrL-YvlaJ98ZSL7SKkCAxvvLUHAGygsA3x_/w400-h400/img_4477.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Elsewhere Hidden By Cover</b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"The wretched Imperials are finishing our work at the north wall."</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"We must immediately report this gift to Ragnar Khan!"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"By the pathway through the secret cavern. Let's ride!"<br /></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">CLOSING REMARKS</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Also see: </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Chapter 1, At The Gallop</span></div><div><a href="https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-1.html">https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-1.html</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Chapter 2, Half A League To The Fort</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-2.html">https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-2.html</a><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>2. Chapter 4, Ragnar Khan will be posted near October 29, 2022. </span>We look forward to seeing you return for this next exciting installment of Empire of Wrath.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Thank you for your interest and approbation. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>4. Meanwhile, your comments are welcome below --- at Post a Comment.</span></span></div></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-33276562560720938992022-09-30T22:21:00.003-05:002022-10-01T20:25:16.237-05:00EMPIRE OF WRATH Chapter 2<p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-size: medium;">A GENERAL PETTYGREE BATTLE STORY</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-size: large;">EMPIRE OF WRATH</span></b></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-size: large;">Chapter 2</span></b></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Half a League To The Fort</b></div></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLjO2Aj8HIBDOeEdzt1fM9vyrp0AuIjCVIaVcWy5p-XrMIf0UclCLlX0eRAa7T84l3ch_9Uk9TYM-ZqCuQ1ClySfisxwRL1Az4Nvlqa9YVGgwtBDhsn83iJi4HR0ivmD_NiBVS1vMu6JAZE-oe442hQpFbznfIdLN8-_BhQN3LqGs1r_Gj5qIjkYcu/s3888/img_4388.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLjO2Aj8HIBDOeEdzt1fM9vyrp0AuIjCVIaVcWy5p-XrMIf0UclCLlX0eRAa7T84l3ch_9Uk9TYM-ZqCuQ1ClySfisxwRL1Az4Nvlqa9YVGgwtBDhsn83iJi4HR0ivmD_NiBVS1vMu6JAZE-oe442hQpFbznfIdLN8-_BhQN3LqGs1r_Gj5qIjkYcu/w400-h400/img_4388.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"General, I have a dispatch from Fort Albert, Sir."</span><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Read it Lieutenant Baileigh?"</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Yes Sir. It says...."</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieyenJdY3MP-n9jqiYh5sAXE1INQXJgRqfOakrU-fOkxipahIgMZBTwr6B8SvARGvlSL0qo-tyREVCoDXZX-W4MXVsT9oG3jJp-k4vy9_xLb34PDORpmAGwfb-v3yaSIm4IPjlFzSlfZh0y1DmEJw6isDgHgZtJWi7jwHpKleZ9wwWKcYsesOS6KyL/w400-h400/img_4364.jpg" /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Captain Bartlett galloped his squadron the last league into Fort Albert."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Galloped? Is that all?"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Yes, General."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifCzc2o3CvssQ9VV6MIiz3BBPS0f1ezYa2_0vKGurvPvlW3aW1kZ8u38T0UeUVOmoYkb362cLGrIAH1CHvb1mziBT9aAlEdY36AAYnP6hBLrEZKGa4ku1azOmgLJdw32kn0icrUXKjpi1frQmvtzgQEQrpaSHVSYXnZt-NonENkCugxTyr2w_iE-eC/s3888/img_4365.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifCzc2o3CvssQ9VV6MIiz3BBPS0f1ezYa2_0vKGurvPvlW3aW1kZ8u38T0UeUVOmoYkb362cLGrIAH1CHvb1mziBT9aAlEdY36AAYnP6hBLrEZKGa4ku1azOmgLJdw32kn0icrUXKjpi1frQmvtzgQEQrpaSHVSYXnZt-NonENkCugxTyr2w_iE-eC/w400-h400/img_4365.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Back to Troopers Corey and Ham leading the squadron.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Who are those infernal riders pursuing us?"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"It's Ragnar Khan's horsemen more than likely my dear Corey. Who else could they be? Anyway, we have our orders to lead our chaps into the fort."</span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqAOuEllrpvMTSS0PymK5x6AquMUbcED7_kVF3I0qOl2ZOHfuLwNNprooY2w7vjtxp8FY6Ms1pA6d5fGimAC45Kqv5stE4koMUf0gCj_EuDHG4yy_hPONGK3t9b5Px8cckKzWrEQN9L2DJGzGTcrcdC_E-s88-78FjOqiG-ObOSieaA_XDwbc2HK9b/s3888/img_4366b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqAOuEllrpvMTSS0PymK5x6AquMUbcED7_kVF3I0qOl2ZOHfuLwNNprooY2w7vjtxp8FY6Ms1pA6d5fGimAC45Kqv5stE4koMUf0gCj_EuDHG4yy_hPONGK3t9b5Px8cckKzWrEQN9L2DJGzGTcrcdC_E-s88-78FjOqiG-ObOSieaA_XDwbc2HK9b/w400-h266/img_4366b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"> "To the gallop then! I hope we make it," shouted Corey.</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span></div></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCngszm-s33lblJW85t6piZUgR62ywz4pAMNawxWik19XLYnyLw9HelS8ehseJGJduWd6spyYL4D9UUpVeR9W6gczzpWFFFvPvemgiAoNUdf5h7WD67Vl_01tPpYJqw0f7ivTf7uMHsJeRqNO_FyG2jj8Vmf7cKSl6QlgMepeaaxqEkDWQqAFgbKWB/s3888/img_4369.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCngszm-s33lblJW85t6piZUgR62ywz4pAMNawxWik19XLYnyLw9HelS8ehseJGJduWd6spyYL4D9UUpVeR9W6gczzpWFFFvPvemgiAoNUdf5h7WD67Vl_01tPpYJqw0f7ivTf7uMHsJeRqNO_FyG2jj8Vmf7cKSl6QlgMepeaaxqEkDWQqAFgbKWB/w400-h400/img_4369.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"We'd better or our game will be up! Look at Jack go. He's having fun," said Ham. </span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />"Half a league, half a league, half a league onward, all in the valley of death rode...."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Wot's that Corey?"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade. That's us here."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"This is no time for poetry, you witless soldier," scolded Ham. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Oh. Shut up will you?"<br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMpKOEZpHYOYJWT9ZyjUNYEUGLS7w2BGrxEXDuzBVXSkn5WgS0-jbMkBQk0FHC1sAWC9ef179TepcO4-ntUVl0B6YBsFP_ugGAKksRkAAw7w5S0HpYFkp9E5jDZZvcfGTxsETvEJK93vSgvrG_8398LRmspjZboqsBI6DuhrT7d_mHPJ_U38S60edJ/s3888/img_4368.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMpKOEZpHYOYJWT9ZyjUNYEUGLS7w2BGrxEXDuzBVXSkn5WgS0-jbMkBQk0FHC1sAWC9ef179TepcO4-ntUVl0B6YBsFP_ugGAKksRkAAw7w5S0HpYFkp9E5jDZZvcfGTxsETvEJK93vSgvrG_8398LRmspjZboqsBI6DuhrT7d_mHPJ_U38S60edJ/w400-h400/img_4368.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"They are closing in on our chaps," continued Ham. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Should we turn about and give 'em some carbine fire?," asked Corey.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Yes, turning now on this rise of ground."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>BOOM! -- SHOCKWAVE -- REVERBERATIONS</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> "I'm almost unhorsed. Susan, steady girl. --- What was that blast?, asked Ham."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDdlS7yjhD-JMhH4xm-mxuAY4qStjXMGcrrtdZaZb4203-hny56vz2KmvDaSPebhE9p6BkIs003CljyO24_V-p_tkFrwMbUC80WnORy3LSCr3mwQMXxQlbs-OBrZJNvBlNG_Zx6uOXnNOy2glGbV0UuU69cvHx9p1B8TJh7jOU2hGlAEoJ80bUoWRh/s3107/img_4372c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3107" data-original-width="2073" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDdlS7yjhD-JMhH4xm-mxuAY4qStjXMGcrrtdZaZb4203-hny56vz2KmvDaSPebhE9p6BkIs003CljyO24_V-p_tkFrwMbUC80WnORy3LSCr3mwQMXxQlbs-OBrZJNvBlNG_Zx6uOXnNOy2glGbV0UuU69cvHx9p1B8TJh7jOU2hGlAEoJ80bUoWRh/w268-h400/img_4372c.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"The fort Gate Tower exploded," shouted Corey.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Ragnar Khan's clever sedition, no doubt. Now we've got trouble front an' back," said Ham</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2TSdHMDjeSY8l1cl-c1D6H1eRrWJUzJr3LgTQp0BdU0-aOp1KjhpjRYQePau_mT4oZjsfbJg_et4ugmE6_WDIOJKZTkxDqrnFocL-_y1c_G4X8158qopZoUP3AFjYb_LdCuT2Sra-8oR2n6LSjz1xCkr4AAYCVEnLJrCIcpyBSOSX8Vo2YwMFmd67/s3888/img_4373.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2TSdHMDjeSY8l1cl-c1D6H1eRrWJUzJr3LgTQp0BdU0-aOp1KjhpjRYQePau_mT4oZjsfbJg_et4ugmE6_WDIOJKZTkxDqrnFocL-_y1c_G4X8158qopZoUP3AFjYb_LdCuT2Sra-8oR2n6LSjz1xCkr4AAYCVEnLJrCIcpyBSOSX8Vo2YwMFmd67/w400-h400/img_4373.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"No! An explosive shell landed to the column's right. Was it a miss or....?</div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmel1-_8c2kXgCAPnULP0nYcvhC0bD-VDu7LFIy543yJpYyHBtmFhfb7zBAkGZGTK6qRhhHJLKdteZLYOIVyfT_8KcbfwIHM8lZhcaRPNxDevjuT9UJ2xqFgcIJTEvFQ-IGTpwaZ_dTWief1Iyny0wbSRk6FQYB9pajjNG2LC2DNKLrI180pE9NZAQ/w400-h400/img_4374.jpg" /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Unknown. But, a welcome piece of luck," said Corey.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"And a fatal surprise for Ragnar Khan's men whether intended or not. Let's keep going forward," said Ham.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Say, isn't that....?" asked Corey.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI04rqEhvbhXhsPn_d5wm0O7c2MK1Ej6IF6jl1ARl_Ri1I-43kwUgAa69rjrz59FvImFTF8AhYshLZcf9_8FiOy-vYC8-dCK6vY8Ke8L-Cy-9_8O24NQWZxVmCBAydFnMJvzpc4oIbU2X--o4LCVIGCizkoN4_R08iOSQXwyoxdyKe0_2PLz1xP7p9/s3888/img_4375.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI04rqEhvbhXhsPn_d5wm0O7c2MK1Ej6IF6jl1ARl_Ri1I-43kwUgAa69rjrz59FvImFTF8AhYshLZcf9_8FiOy-vYC8-dCK6vY8Ke8L-Cy-9_8O24NQWZxVmCBAydFnMJvzpc4oIbU2X--o4LCVIGCizkoN4_R08iOSQXwyoxdyKe0_2PLz1xP7p9/w400-h400/img_4375.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"It's Gupta, the water carrier from our last post," said Ham.</span><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Namaste Sahibs. Welcome to Fort Albert. Gupta, again at your service. Paani?"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">(Nam-as-stay --- greetings...Masters) (Paani --- water)</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW3jbJhKUQCssemMJistUpe6w5u7zZxN-6n44FiRc1gmMHoZRGog8HgrxfpQarexPffnH11-JhO6qEkaAynozvVS6LZTsdpWB7Qn_2OAVHoQikHFkuKVfoi_wV1665li0jJhLDvWriFsoJJrsk3-CM_E129UoYTXmynFUlcN09YX_rsqxo8D9ukgQ_/s3888/img_4378.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW3jbJhKUQCssemMJistUpe6w5u7zZxN-6n44FiRc1gmMHoZRGog8HgrxfpQarexPffnH11-JhO6qEkaAynozvVS6LZTsdpWB7Qn_2OAVHoQikHFkuKVfoi_wV1665li0jJhLDvWriFsoJJrsk3-CM_E129UoYTXmynFUlcN09YX_rsqxo8D9ukgQ_/w400-h400/img_4378.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"No time for that Gupta! Ragnar Khan's men just blew up the tower and his horsemen are behind us," bellowed Corey.</span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY5eqXF7aKzMXqjlZjNQSk8iGYSvZ016fC0IpAy9wNzn3Lu4_dmfSKeUrc2XlLgrWue5x-Ez3o6wyzYc3_u7-OzBIsPMD_Jwao6Z18YvAxqLagorsFB6fsCoGLZjtYJUmxxr13ePpRkRzTO_zDwDrXzCu-eE32MzlVNrxaf6Gj0Y7D__O9ZWqLnmsX/s3888/img_4377.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY5eqXF7aKzMXqjlZjNQSk8iGYSvZ016fC0IpAy9wNzn3Lu4_dmfSKeUrc2XlLgrWue5x-Ez3o6wyzYc3_u7-OzBIsPMD_Jwao6Z18YvAxqLagorsFB6fsCoGLZjtYJUmxxr13ePpRkRzTO_zDwDrXzCu-eE32MzlVNrxaf6Gj0Y7D__O9ZWqLnmsX/w400-h400/img_4377.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"No trouble, Sahibs. All is right. That's our cannon in the tower and the 27th Bombay Miners and Sappers just stepped through the hedge there with Captain Caddy."</div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A moment later a section of the 27th fired a front rank volley at the enemy riders.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqARA01VrOUuHhLup00OnfgBmiiMgvd7hyudrCJa-4Fr5vFYOJr71FlY5pGVbcTNV54Wpnq551ni6MpnLy5ZZ63fVWnJEly5cRa-fCwQFos_2CUec7WE0bM8dW1FLng1vEpZkRDFeljFR5JowxMA4Yz_Bg0PjAKtLq-2BQSBkydAo9niuPFHIUugdW/s3888/img_4380.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqARA01VrOUuHhLup00OnfgBmiiMgvd7hyudrCJa-4Fr5vFYOJr71FlY5pGVbcTNV54Wpnq551ni6MpnLy5ZZ63fVWnJEly5cRa-fCwQFos_2CUec7WE0bM8dW1FLng1vEpZkRDFeljFR5JowxMA4Yz_Bg0PjAKtLq-2BQSBkydAo9niuPFHIUugdW/w400-h400/img_4380.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Then, "2nd rank, aim. FIRE!"</span><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitrK_YdN4LUqQIv4Z7s5NLD85gaHg0Zu6ZM2-kSspT5jp-a4fSEKmpXstAz5MsIjcyPmGBHHwoY17DNekkjp9gl_L9Iy94U-K8tOBDyuvz8NI7eLWs4qrhNEqlYDgQYk_6lfQvodyaxxAbegIfVmkLoKcrWhrKV6AE49M7r3rq6-mDIOXwxnTCxm16/s3888/img_4384.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitrK_YdN4LUqQIv4Z7s5NLD85gaHg0Zu6ZM2-kSspT5jp-a4fSEKmpXstAz5MsIjcyPmGBHHwoY17DNekkjp9gl_L9Iy94U-K8tOBDyuvz8NI7eLWs4qrhNEqlYDgQYk_6lfQvodyaxxAbegIfVmkLoKcrWhrKV6AE49M7r3rq6-mDIOXwxnTCxm16/w400-h400/img_4384.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Look at 'em run! That's the ticket," yelled Corey.</span><br /><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8o9IHjFBKwCv4GwpR9m9u9kVT2NZLqkYHAQ2XZ0u8Wxc3udw8i4irn5cX1Gk_If8jYvzq_kQPtvDcNqS7OqIPC2HhZAoYtWNjZG21B853aJ9qw16A4J-vJCdgJvNrP5cYbUW2xCmWffNMJ3XFe7Poc-KmC9kye-FeURAoqwkfs3QxCanORuMczZjG/s3888/img_4370.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8o9IHjFBKwCv4GwpR9m9u9kVT2NZLqkYHAQ2XZ0u8Wxc3udw8i4irn5cX1Gk_If8jYvzq_kQPtvDcNqS7OqIPC2HhZAoYtWNjZG21B853aJ9qw16A4J-vJCdgJvNrP5cYbUW2xCmWffNMJ3XFe7Poc-KmC9kye-FeURAoqwkfs3QxCanORuMczZjG/w400-h400/img_4370.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Followed by a complimentary shot from the Lion Gun.</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBK4KCzTr0eio8h6o4XWffDA3OZ6Qk0ONCawJOhQbouEcL_dtutYMEVqcVimMk-weaQeZKt2rPMz6O3t6LpzbUIGsZUqhSvzZxMjf4_MUxIASoq3I8_pP8aYY2DW4bv3UWl2S6UJpJkXrXQjmTQ2Waz7iA5XXPSuzYMotXBJ4y46PRsPVErREVPx2I/s3888/img_4383.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBK4KCzTr0eio8h6o4XWffDA3OZ6Qk0ONCawJOhQbouEcL_dtutYMEVqcVimMk-weaQeZKt2rPMz6O3t6LpzbUIGsZUqhSvzZxMjf4_MUxIASoq3I8_pP8aYY2DW4bv3UWl2S6UJpJkXrXQjmTQ2Waz7iA5XXPSuzYMotXBJ4y46PRsPVErREVPx2I/w400-h400/img_4383.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"I never doubted the outcome. --- You, Corey?"</span></div><span> </span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Certainly not. Our game ain't finished. Here's the Captain."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS7yYScbV3lVcdbEF-prOS_0iv5R38_U9QLbUe4zBEuZur5WqoFoVvTSqmftqrwJhYpCvTk-OtjsH24IeKUpY6NdPMuZiyHeVbGqfTjfxbN4r43pWnHQ5cgl4IHP71DwxuE-Q8NblxmvBrkl2FXV_sNcUqO9FpVYNGiMhAKcjT2-Xd89rU1zO2uCHr/s3888/img_4382.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS7yYScbV3lVcdbEF-prOS_0iv5R38_U9QLbUe4zBEuZur5WqoFoVvTSqmftqrwJhYpCvTk-OtjsH24IeKUpY6NdPMuZiyHeVbGqfTjfxbN4r43pWnHQ5cgl4IHP71DwxuE-Q8NblxmvBrkl2FXV_sNcUqO9FpVYNGiMhAKcjT2-Xd89rU1zO2uCHr/w400-h400/img_4382.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Captain Caddy, Royal Engineers! I've never been so...."</span></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">"All in a day's work, Sir. Welcome to Fort Albert."</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_xIP_rrO2N6XAk_HwBHpA9N6Gre18ZS-3MIDSLEEuvCJ6zg73BF4jlnf6ecWM6cXedve84A0jonf5h4Rpqftn8BoDc-tkl53XHs9D2h2N_J1bdHkKPakP0MRJkyCWCpruaO5TMplsrAYQt8Sxit8mXXr0ab-i1FaHgbJJtaTBP2FHNgQoQnkPYa3G/s3888/img_4385.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_xIP_rrO2N6XAk_HwBHpA9N6Gre18ZS-3MIDSLEEuvCJ6zg73BF4jlnf6ecWM6cXedve84A0jonf5h4Rpqftn8BoDc-tkl53XHs9D2h2N_J1bdHkKPakP0MRJkyCWCpruaO5TMplsrAYQt8Sxit8mXXr0ab-i1FaHgbJJtaTBP2FHNgQoQnkPYa3G/w400-h400/img_4385.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A final volley ended the affair.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-size: large;"><b>CLOSING REMARKS</b></span></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Also see: Chapter 1, At The Gallop</span></div><div><a href="https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-1.html">https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2022/09/empire-of-wrath-chapter-1.html</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>2. Chapter 3 Fort Albert is completed. It will be posted near October 15, 2022. </span>We look forward to seeing you return for this next exciting installment of Empire of Wrath.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Thank you for your interest and approbation. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">4. Meanwhile, your comments are welcome below at Post a Comment.</span></div></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-80176852106828001562022-09-16T20:56:00.002-05:002022-09-20T09:14:25.227-05:00EMPIRE OF WRATH Chapter 1<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-size: medium;">A GENERAL PETTYGREE BATTLE STORY</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-size: large;">EMPIRE OF WRATH</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><b>Introduction</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWIPxEwm3XVAA3nt27dypQpRbm6F9uaMmsvUvfgKHe3KaDC450pNy15nphkKP5hXMGtGRCUTzAZZLCGeQQn2XAl6CJis6kACAo5cSValdiW27Yh_P1Ve1-zBswJbRRnvxf_ckKNIPg8IgoekZlrkRKDktK-drSiRubtVB_ZSVnNvDySC1MK4GStD56/s3888/img_4389b.jpg" style="font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWIPxEwm3XVAA3nt27dypQpRbm6F9uaMmsvUvfgKHe3KaDC450pNy15nphkKP5hXMGtGRCUTzAZZLCGeQQn2XAl6CJis6kACAo5cSValdiW27Yh_P1Ve1-zBswJbRRnvxf_ckKNIPg8IgoekZlrkRKDktK-drSiRubtVB_ZSVnNvDySC1MK4GStD56/w400-h266/img_4389b.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My dear readers, Empire of Wrath takes place in an imagineered region of The Northwest Frontier on the Indian Sub-Continent. There I will face my most cunning, dangerous and malevolent opponent ever. You will meet him soon enough. Meanwhile, perhaps you will remember my 10th Hussar familiars as they commence this new and perilous adventure. They are en-route to take post at old abandoned Fort Albert. Let's get started with.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-size: large;">Chapter 1</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-size: large;">At The Gallop</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjElRZF2S4YPmnVg3hxbRGBxO-1ZvWB61C_uJJQCR7SCd08VosWUVZAzDJEEPYRA4NYaEAEIo15XRKX1KjtcL16VDr0DsIOxJV2mnDRcd6kj3pOszTEiEofmx_uJIwaOKIUbll6TJZm4iN1VH9v0IT-5d4Ojn761k8PdeAcaQdZGo05IY3DrW66MWHu/s3864/img_4347b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2578" data-original-width="3864" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjElRZF2S4YPmnVg3hxbRGBxO-1ZvWB61C_uJJQCR7SCd08VosWUVZAzDJEEPYRA4NYaEAEIo15XRKX1KjtcL16VDr0DsIOxJV2mnDRcd6kj3pOszTEiEofmx_uJIwaOKIUbll6TJZm4iN1VH9v0IT-5d4Ojn761k8PdeAcaQdZGo05IY3DrW66MWHu/w400-h266/img_4347b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"After this long ride, will you look at that, Trooper Corey?"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"What for all love? We're flanked by pine ridges. I don't see anythi'n. Ragnar Khan could be hid'n up there with dozens of tribesmen and their cruel jezzails. Well Trooper Ham?" </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"No, you blind man. Captain Bartlett is going to finally halt the troop. Look now."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIMETPSydDvyOA5iHIbg5sOYih9koifjTZKmzIxA8ZspeDpZqygWPIe5tEFgAO1YC_OWoi6P04m9JFG1HpuGOIK9c8kVkmqBH5GkA2VUyOCwaiS1-2aTIB0mSZ49Y3YsAEay3JIIq6hVXNgv98pcWRr-YeMN-6E2aHXUCcoHmLDkmHPe2Mx_jsWkq/s3864/img_4345b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2577" data-original-width="3864" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIMETPSydDvyOA5iHIbg5sOYih9koifjTZKmzIxA8ZspeDpZqygWPIe5tEFgAO1YC_OWoi6P04m9JFG1HpuGOIK9c8kVkmqBH5GkA2VUyOCwaiS1-2aTIB0mSZ49Y3YsAEay3JIIq6hVXNgv98pcWRr-YeMN-6E2aHXUCcoHmLDkmHPe2Mx_jsWkq/w400-h266/img_4345b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"1st Troop. Halt. --- Corey --- Ham --- come forward."</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"That's torn it Corey."<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ9Y_QPvnXLPYybISKvWcLRVAeCkY7OtfUkorJWv7aAXqAnJNh7Ey0hU4cU0_72k1qldVyEvr3uHYb87aHj1y-eQ4TCKKEgmKtWTEh7JqYHpvzwNLT0Wzs04-zCxXRGX_DdTK5Gxrifs-ajwv14_pj7OhNMKGJoosnEMjM0WDlkfMvxthXSVx2RWbG/s3888/img_4348.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ9Y_QPvnXLPYybISKvWcLRVAeCkY7OtfUkorJWv7aAXqAnJNh7Ey0hU4cU0_72k1qldVyEvr3uHYb87aHj1y-eQ4TCKKEgmKtWTEh7JqYHpvzwNLT0Wzs04-zCxXRGX_DdTK5Gxrifs-ajwv14_pj7OhNMKGJoosnEMjM0WDlkfMvxthXSVx2RWbG/w400-h400/img_4348.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Captain Bartlett, Sir," said Ham and Corey in unison."</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Ham, Corey, you've been breathing our dust this past hour and more. It's time for clear air. Ride out to the point relieving Thornton and Crisp. Though the ground ahead is something of a savanna, keep your eyes open for trouble from anywhere. Take Jack along for good measure. He might sniff something out before you do. Then take us into Fort Albert. It's two leagues up ahead. Questions?"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"None, Cap'n." </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Then good luck. Dismissed."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2nCViJQMCFEG7D6FQickpS2fz7bF-6Dg1yx7_JX1wASvx6GjRpFvtbRbnBs2hk3iQIxGaW8LuThCSMGxUsAZXo3Hr5ukeYUVG7HWOuFsGI-kHwsKsL6QvSPKjYW8sx_WaCADqIUJXl8aY56428__XmQj1igy66Mhp97SOQuIc5Lpn65JKbf566hcL/w400-h400/img_4353.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9UnCycW0n3jZJM-7LrcbwnI9-RzMSPvNn3skjDyp5t8aRnztYXboG-v8q16uj7PM5McM2wuspMGyanjuyKxUh1e-qM-KX1JCR5nKkbuvNkGgQGue4oM0kJ3SElIMVUu0EJzKofYqZgkcJTJ9sr87k8jIN2BRoW0RI0uoArR8zc3BWOcgTXbZWs_wc/s3888/img_4355.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9UnCycW0n3jZJM-7LrcbwnI9-RzMSPvNn3skjDyp5t8aRnztYXboG-v8q16uj7PM5McM2wuspMGyanjuyKxUh1e-qM-KX1JCR5nKkbuvNkGgQGue4oM0kJ3SElIMVUu0EJzKofYqZgkcJTJ9sr87k8jIN2BRoW0RI0uoArR8zc3BWOcgTXbZWs_wc/w400-h400/img_4355.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Onward Jack! What's a savanna? All I see is flat, open and rolling ground ahead."</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"You just described it, Ham. It's in the context you know. Didn't you learn anything in school?"<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Context?"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDD8P0b09UYMXfmwxf0XwgUu9hymRLOnXpRXLUc5dVYaxWFtG36TcOpCyukhK0na6ua5vUDDa98D0MR0Ki9OHmdX7NnSA3BnA1MjhZTPMWLyE1rdprqR4D95KLpCCK_Q0_rRmFab3spXXLUcSsRLlH0C_lVvkaU0kZihbL3W0VaLUh_zxeVrBjsT3w/s3888/img_4349.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDD8P0b09UYMXfmwxf0XwgUu9hymRLOnXpRXLUc5dVYaxWFtG36TcOpCyukhK0na6ua5vUDDa98D0MR0Ki9OHmdX7NnSA3BnA1MjhZTPMWLyE1rdprqR4D95KLpCCK_Q0_rRmFab3spXXLUcSsRLlH0C_lVvkaU0kZihbL3W0VaLUh_zxeVrBjsT3w/w400-h400/img_4349.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Crisp shouted out, </span>"<span style="font-size: medium;">Troopers Corey, Ham an' good Jack too. What's the story, then?"</span></div></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxaESVwd-o3WWO_RJ_8nHrDpeH5vNlZkPCdSxTPl83VoxpcGqt6fokVrInPkeXbALldyC0WAfJBc-YDC1AeyhmeQnfO0bYGWkJzIG0gaVmaClkJFRRyxdog2WSafTEYxa4IChCmUi1YR8VAl_E4EdU4t8rPrdDTqsb9nm6s4kHGTyTpNVlt4BGMv5b/s3888/img_4352b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxaESVwd-o3WWO_RJ_8nHrDpeH5vNlZkPCdSxTPl83VoxpcGqt6fokVrInPkeXbALldyC0WAfJBc-YDC1AeyhmeQnfO0bYGWkJzIG0gaVmaClkJFRRyxdog2WSafTEYxa4IChCmUi1YR8VAl_E4EdU4t8rPrdDTqsb9nm6s4kHGTyTpNVlt4BGMv5b/w400-h266/img_4352b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Well Crisp. It's like this. The Cap'n thinks you two are skylarking. So, you are relieved. Report immediately back to the column in shame." </div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Corey, you're a liar."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Winking, "No he ain't. We'll take over from here," said Ham.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8vovahcH_DahpSJC1RZ7lUfItq4GureAwa_i_fMHIU8g5sqxaePKI16EP3SJv5qQ9oDIF6qdHblxqD1ewxpKFNqjCIBRYjYRuNjPlgDsWgMGkvrXBEPge22Yd6hfbtVtVMeUgBclOfIXJvwPiXnu3ZS7gAKRCbc29JpZk11JrDhxuGeKlMx8rXp54/s3888/img_4356.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8vovahcH_DahpSJC1RZ7lUfItq4GureAwa_i_fMHIU8g5sqxaePKI16EP3SJv5qQ9oDIF6qdHblxqD1ewxpKFNqjCIBRYjYRuNjPlgDsWgMGkvrXBEPge22Yd6hfbtVtVMeUgBclOfIXJvwPiXnu3ZS7gAKRCbc29JpZk11JrDhxuGeKlMx8rXp54/w400-h400/img_4356.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo2hzXmQgPK_8HqIcuM74lmUIgxILsnaqJNezFWGNS7yAe2H9jnyEu4kTSxoiXTwe2txn9wvQHXNg_d96DzR012QcZpm9QTqC85CkRbFXNVP6-xeRRHBlgGXeDydKXLBgaIHpQLxmGH3KtCblFYrBKo7XGCkvu7fbBnFB-Pb95SwYch0Hy9vlyrxzO/s3888/img_4359b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo2hzXmQgPK_8HqIcuM74lmUIgxILsnaqJNezFWGNS7yAe2H9jnyEu4kTSxoiXTwe2txn9wvQHXNg_d96DzR012QcZpm9QTqC85CkRbFXNVP6-xeRRHBlgGXeDydKXLBgaIHpQLxmGH3KtCblFYrBKo7XGCkvu7fbBnFB-Pb95SwYch0Hy9vlyrxzO/w400-h400/img_4359b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Like the Captain said, a savanna, remarked Corey.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"And Fort Albert. I'll be mighty glad to have walls around us tonight."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Look right, will you?"</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjSWlTm-foZNq8Zrzg20H4Ey8ANJ401pej86tYQVsryixMAohxBdtFi_hG24p_THPpshTc2NzOPVOddiUdRoMOEe14o9XQAlLCynN3q4ehlLI4va_zheK4SjfYd5L-xcLXv5jkM3iD13OLGMLULJ4QtkggG1aQA5_ve6FNMPAfkGAmToXoIzY8sXhC/s3888/img_4357.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjSWlTm-foZNq8Zrzg20H4Ey8ANJ401pej86tYQVsryixMAohxBdtFi_hG24p_THPpshTc2NzOPVOddiUdRoMOEe14o9XQAlLCynN3q4ehlLI4va_zheK4SjfYd5L-xcLXv5jkM3iD13OLGMLULJ4QtkggG1aQA5_ve6FNMPAfkGAmToXoIzY8sXhC/w400-h400/img_4357.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Boars on a rampage?"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Scared is more like it. They're really mov'n fast. Maybe a tiger is after 'em."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7YN97FjN2a6psq_7S7h--zpx1vpr47POKJxXoRgeRg_J7mZFlRv8AKFl1wEmV88h-DVTLb-OMdpQPjBfDROWsRS69MeoM6pyPJHMI-SHpiRnUXulkchkzoR_hL2QBWm9zipT6H54AH2ez6ceY4FGgPkHYUlqitnJ67H2khp1dQ9Lk7Sh5HehF0aUH/s3864/img_4358b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2577" data-original-width="3864" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7YN97FjN2a6psq_7S7h--zpx1vpr47POKJxXoRgeRg_J7mZFlRv8AKFl1wEmV88h-DVTLb-OMdpQPjBfDROWsRS69MeoM6pyPJHMI-SHpiRnUXulkchkzoR_hL2QBWm9zipT6H54AH2ez6ceY4FGgPkHYUlqitnJ67H2khp1dQ9Lk7Sh5HehF0aUH/w400-h266/img_4358b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"They're heading for cover in the woods. Sows, boars and wee babies," remarked Corey.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9gu-M4t2eZkR-OWaJZW4ONP2z0RpWvIU5Eju5Id0G9BORq-BZNAePu7cNGvsYsTqEI40xyRiF2A1UQqu_XM_wZzMfDeMjv-nhIrMeyjQwyIDR32YyVLjPPcFgpeqBeSMP-NSwVvs0qwAVF7R_PigNhEH1Ohd1IHjKb2PLmyg1HheD0WwBbwoIVm7H/s3888/img_4360.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9gu-M4t2eZkR-OWaJZW4ONP2z0RpWvIU5Eju5Id0G9BORq-BZNAePu7cNGvsYsTqEI40xyRiF2A1UQqu_XM_wZzMfDeMjv-nhIrMeyjQwyIDR32YyVLjPPcFgpeqBeSMP-NSwVvs0qwAVF7R_PigNhEH1Ohd1IHjKb2PLmyg1HheD0WwBbwoIVm7H/w400-h400/img_4360.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"There's why, my dear Ham. Horsemen are bearing down on the column. The lead rider has stopped and is leveling his rifle at us."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJVpitOEGEPwjZ5cR5zSNpS6LfRkQldM2kd5w6VCI1GrDrIOQsEPOke5xcU-r5grEBO5BNNqsgytHErQ_fZdqzFfZ5fLsN1q5SzDWr6EXqUvHL6HqSjXdVTDmd-RvT47J7LXDK2KbMwsl-jYzLnoq1qFY7N9PFWjRX6kYkgCNGLuLvxKnij9zUHQWJ/s3888/img_4361.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJVpitOEGEPwjZ5cR5zSNpS6LfRkQldM2kd5w6VCI1GrDrIOQsEPOke5xcU-r5grEBO5BNNqsgytHErQ_fZdqzFfZ5fLsN1q5SzDWr6EXqUvHL6HqSjXdVTDmd-RvT47J7LXDK2KbMwsl-jYzLnoq1qFY7N9PFWjRX6kYkgCNGLuLvxKnij9zUHQWJ/w400-h400/img_4361.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A puff of smoke and delayed report exited the Pathan's rifle. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbvBOqwd-EF65bQMqYsRLuGTC9q0iQAxfOvid-ZRyXaB6ReFo3CUH0LemgJwTW2F8z-_aoYHnNRVPrmVMmy5Kn93pE2Elxa3Z9Q6gDfcifTMlh3XGP5RNIJTcyqwSmc8TpRbZqArAtXYUT58u_Fg0TM1-zQFDbpZj2Hi729rVNNmwxg0kpXhPyGho9/s3888/img_4361b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbvBOqwd-EF65bQMqYsRLuGTC9q0iQAxfOvid-ZRyXaB6ReFo3CUH0LemgJwTW2F8z-_aoYHnNRVPrmVMmy5Kn93pE2Elxa3Z9Q6gDfcifTMlh3XGP5RNIJTcyqwSmc8TpRbZqArAtXYUT58u_Fg0TM1-zQFDbpZj2Hi729rVNNmwxg0kpXhPyGho9/w400-h266/img_4361b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The bullet hurtled toward Ham and Corey.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2iYzaSe0zlxwb8iT7Huhusm2heRAwRkGyFvCYrgLl7dN_7qblMqP1E6wVlo78FXKjHXsUMqyf5ZlEFNi-xJT8pzASvjsI31BZYL1JWF8l9pqF9OXgjTHE6CLrNuZ50Bp0EpDjjCqXdnqTxVhqWuZ3NO-77MmNuH4-IsO9CVSQe0ab264v4fMr5gat/s3888/img_4362b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2iYzaSe0zlxwb8iT7Huhusm2heRAwRkGyFvCYrgLl7dN_7qblMqP1E6wVlo78FXKjHXsUMqyf5ZlEFNi-xJT8pzASvjsI31BZYL1JWF8l9pqF9OXgjTHE6CLrNuZ50Bp0EpDjjCqXdnqTxVhqWuZ3NO-77MmNuH4-IsO9CVSQe0ab264v4fMr5gat/w400-h266/img_4362b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Captain Bartlett heard the crack of the rifle, turned to see where it came from and....</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-iSFFuW0MHBabw-0YODL_9Ihnopx5ycn6bT7UPm1m5WfKJDi8CvpjugG2ZAQgmkfzUECWEG5TOwdFvZYZEkibYhoqU3uuhJXfT4Bphqs8N3WeHqh357gN1rtUATr7gwRxZ89EpeAdvna_shu_Hnz_08dstbFpRN83fRBKf6Di_gPjOHgDHEc8YJuJ/s3888/img_4366b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-iSFFuW0MHBabw-0YODL_9Ihnopx5ycn6bT7UPm1m5WfKJDi8CvpjugG2ZAQgmkfzUECWEG5TOwdFvZYZEkibYhoqU3uuhJXfT4Bphqs8N3WeHqh357gN1rtUATr7gwRxZ89EpeAdvna_shu_Hnz_08dstbFpRN83fRBKf6Di_gPjOHgDHEc8YJuJ/w400-h266/img_4366b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bellowed, "At the GALLOP. Follow me to the fort!"</span></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3h5p2atH_hnZtl712Svs_asBesuZ__icx2o50P0PV7k3PcXM7xKxUm9gNKaEILAfTUvk0Toxe2hwnR0DDKMJjuKWlMUc0Ftyus5QAi8U6_Ur9MGyMSh9vSs5QiNT5K7pCs-Yv-f6yFjFIVmi9M0O9s4lafRzvIN-CcCtGObIbJOAloKSxIj5gt_jg/s3888/img_4364.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3h5p2atH_hnZtl712Svs_asBesuZ__icx2o50P0PV7k3PcXM7xKxUm9gNKaEILAfTUvk0Toxe2hwnR0DDKMJjuKWlMUc0Ftyus5QAi8U6_Ur9MGyMSh9vSs5QiNT5K7pCs-Yv-f6yFjFIVmi9M0O9s4lafRzvIN-CcCtGObIbJOAloKSxIj5gt_jg/w400-h400/img_4364.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"We've seen worse, my dear Corey."</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Sure. When?"</span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">--------------------</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">CLOSING REMARKS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>1. Chapter 2 Half A League To The Fort is completed. It will be posted October 1st. 2022. </span>We look forward to seeing you return at that time for the next exciting installment of Empire of Wrath.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Thank you for your interest and approbation. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Meanwhile, your comments are welcome below at Post a Comment.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-74198994299227533282022-07-15T21:55:00.005-05:002022-07-15T22:47:11.555-05:00Gen. Pettygree's General Orders For Us<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><span style="color: red;">PEOPLE, PLANNING AND PLAYING</span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-bIiIQFJnzcVYkpo4s8VnSGs3BbVLoVZD0AbtRVYAwmwzfEuOuBSXNsEWAEGoLO_E-_b28d3GJK17oPWs66bVnGlBz7hHybw-0m3BPR0ByYkY4TlWVvnE2leF-GeC4aksCx5G0IN2EYqb-XCKi9QDdIoxNfiFYQEShVcoznQMqSeO_YSzwFHLsg2q/s3864/img_4197b1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2578" data-original-width="3864" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-bIiIQFJnzcVYkpo4s8VnSGs3BbVLoVZD0AbtRVYAwmwzfEuOuBSXNsEWAEGoLO_E-_b28d3GJK17oPWs66bVnGlBz7hHybw-0m3BPR0ByYkY4TlWVvnE2leF-GeC4aksCx5G0IN2EYqb-XCKi9QDdIoxNfiFYQEShVcoznQMqSeO_YSzwFHLsg2q/w400-h266/img_4197b1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Lt. Grandmaison, a word, if you please."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKvUQlf2d1g5CyHA_ri-DyK3FAXdN61Is_jEeVVxeyH1-2M_IehebgLo396ySfKcm20yjdY9gUL7Ie6S_g-tGAF5iuyAVgaNeDa3ctCHcoi__4CXdqSlP6bBikERMIpRWhmXBaaTtj9qvK_bpJPbP2sAZIQ8MEbEM9cG22vs3f8wbjE167iwftNTIB/s3106/img_4198b2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKvUQlf2d1g5CyHA_ri-DyK3FAXdN61Is_jEeVVxeyH1-2M_IehebgLo396ySfKcm20yjdY9gUL7Ie6S_g-tGAF5iuyAVgaNeDa3ctCHcoi__4CXdqSlP6bBikERMIpRWhmXBaaTtj9qvK_bpJPbP2sAZIQ8MEbEM9cG22vs3f8wbjE167iwftNTIB/s3106/img_4198b2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2070" data-original-width="3106" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKvUQlf2d1g5CyHA_ri-DyK3FAXdN61Is_jEeVVxeyH1-2M_IehebgLo396ySfKcm20yjdY9gUL7Ie6S_g-tGAF5iuyAVgaNeDa3ctCHcoi__4CXdqSlP6bBikERMIpRWhmXBaaTtj9qvK_bpJPbP2sAZIQ8MEbEM9cG22vs3f8wbjE167iwftNTIB/w400-h266/img_4198b2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">"Sah!"</div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Ride back to the telegraph and send this dispatch."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"It is time to attend again to the following General Orders last posted in 1897 (2007)." </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">We game with historical miniatures for fun, to understand the past and to model history in a unique way. We are diggers of facts, reflective, artists and builders seeking pleasant hours in rewarding solitude or companionably with others. Social aspects of our hobby are the most important dynamics as we seek peaceful and enjoyable moments with each other.</div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">In 174</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">6
fourteen year old George Washington composed 110 useful rules of behavior
within </span><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company And Conversation</i><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">.
“These rules were drawn from an English translation of a French book of maxims
… to polish manners, keep alive the best affections of the heart, impress the
obligation of moral virtues, teach how to treat others in social relations, and
above all, inculcate the practice of perfect self-control.”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Consider:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#1 “Every action in company
ought to be with some sign of respect to those that are present.”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p>#19 “Let your countenance
be pleasant, but in serious matters somewhat grave.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#22 “Show not yourself glad
at the misfortune of another, though he were your enemy.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#49 “Use no reproachful
language against anyone; neither curse nor revile.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#51 “Wear not your clothes
foul, ripped or dusty .…”</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#51 “… and take heed that
you approach not to any uncleanness.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#65 “Speak not injurious
words, neither in jest or earnest….”</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#65 “…scoff at none
although they give you occasion.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><tt><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;">#86 “In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as not to give
liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the
major part, especially if they be judges of the dispute.”<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><tt><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;">#88 “Be not tedious in discourse.…”<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><tt><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;">#105 “Be not angry at table whatever happens, and if you have
reason to be so, show it not; put on a cheerful countenance especially if there
be strangers….”<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><tt><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;">#108 “When you speak of God or his attributes, let it be seriously
& with reverence.”<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><tt><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The following
additional reflections also have merit though stated in a blunt modern style.
We desire gamers who are friends rather than toxic competitors, fun-loving
instead of mean-spirited, agreeable as opposed to being interminably
argumentative and companionable instead of being anti-social. It is also a
bonus if they are able to be contributors to the cause in some way, helpful,
communicative, honest, timely and will absolutely refuse to commit gross
historical irregularities because rules are flawed.</span></span></tt></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><b style="background-color: #d9ead3;">NEW (15 July 2022)</b></span></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><b><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #d9ead3;">When friends invite you to a game, refusing to participate because you don't like the rules is poor form. People are more important than rules.</b></div></b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Apologize, accept apologies and forgive more easily.</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">How do you spell friendship? T I M E</span><br /></b></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkTDjjDa_8xE8N_s01THoZieVulU7ci1aPiIVak57R3RIQQ-CRRZw6NCvY2L7gOWCvy_sYS8vDiYNdlwHW7A6Xu_Zo0bPpfkcnVPnHKiUGb0QTwJDqImEk7SgT8AcE2U1cEqRSYKnf4b9zD_Fk_Ex98akXRiw5PYDYJP0GY0UVfjf009Ic6cAcKEj_/s3888/img_4200b4.jpg"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkTDjjDa_8xE8N_s01THoZieVulU7ci1aPiIVak57R3RIQQ-CRRZw6NCvY2L7gOWCvy_sYS8vDiYNdlwHW7A6Xu_Zo0bPpfkcnVPnHKiUGb0QTwJDqImEk7SgT8AcE2U1cEqRSYKnf4b9zD_Fk_Ex98akXRiw5PYDYJP0GY0UVfjf009Ic6cAcKEj_/w400-h266/img_4200b4.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Yes, Sah. I'll ride back immediately and rejoin the column at the Khyber Pass."</div></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyI1UN1QYD8kWpRzHcl9QtZQt7mNDu7WtU1kgGvwtr1_BYxiTYDkRim-D--LV6Io2TLKtETqhSaLThfKIyLdYSpKySTwZ8N1sAsT-IunDMU82MW7W7PcQoVW3yLudgh_zfLQRtShZyYMvdCAiAWjT3DOeCrUhflXADVQyeEKLMdgDb8wnmJthQnZL7/s3107/img_4201b5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2073" data-original-width="3107" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyI1UN1QYD8kWpRzHcl9QtZQt7mNDu7WtU1kgGvwtr1_BYxiTYDkRim-D--LV6Io2TLKtETqhSaLThfKIyLdYSpKySTwZ8N1sAsT-IunDMU82MW7W7PcQoVW3yLudgh_zfLQRtShZyYMvdCAiAWjT3DOeCrUhflXADVQyeEKLMdgDb8wnmJthQnZL7/w400-h268/img_4201b5.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Enjoy and treat your friends kindly while they are gifted to you and in your care."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">---------- ---------- ---------- ----------</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; color: red; font-size: medium;"><b>CLOSING REMARKS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>1. Maxims chosen appeared in Batailles de l'Ancien R</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">é</span>gime 1740-1763 written by yours truly a long time ago, and worth repeating.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Your remarks will be welcomed.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">---------- ---------- ---------- ----------</span></div></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-84825743682221380872022-07-04T10:06:00.002-05:002022-07-04T10:08:49.195-05:00Happy 4th of July United States of America<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: red; font-size: large;">GOD BLESS AMERICA</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho-7qCukM6IfkWrkX70XmV2pU68rg3mQEShRdt8FvfOEhLvJVH51G5N8tmlkqxCbNumxy5I61N57U_vimwwyWnJaJvZo6z45_YN3VZVDziPeM1BaoowrhZgNdiq3hm0mFWBR6OD-rPfFTdy4m1ylANsgyftaTcV0RGbUhwC0zsjh9fTfCw8v16q9e9/s3888/img_4184.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho-7qCukM6IfkWrkX70XmV2pU68rg3mQEShRdt8FvfOEhLvJVH51G5N8tmlkqxCbNumxy5I61N57U_vimwwyWnJaJvZo6z45_YN3VZVDziPeM1BaoowrhZgNdiq3hm0mFWBR6OD-rPfFTdy4m1ylANsgyftaTcV0RGbUhwC0zsjh9fTfCw8v16q9e9/s320/img_4184.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span face="Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px;">GOD BLESS AMERICA</span><div><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><div class="verse" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px;">Land that I love<br />Stand beside her<br />And guide her<br />Through the night with a light from above<br /></div><div class="verse" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px;">From the mountains<br />To the prairies<br />To the oceans white with foam<br /></div><div class="verse" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px;">God bless America<br />My home, sweet home<br /></div><div class="verse" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px;">God bless America<br />Land that I love<br />Stand beside her<br />And guide her<br />Through the night with a light from above<br /></div><div class="verse" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px;">From the mountains<br />To the prairies<br />To the oceans white with foam<br /></div><div class="verse" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px;">God bless America<br />My home, sweet home<br /></div><div class="verse" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px;">From the mountains<br />To the prairies<br />To the oceans white with foam<br /></div><div class="verse" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px;">God bless America<br />My home, sweet home<br /></div><div class="verse" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 0px;">God bless America<br />My home, sweet home</div><div class="verse" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="verse" style="font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><b>HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</b></span></span></div><div class="verse" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="verse" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><br /></div><p></p></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-59095530721451456712021-12-16T22:55:00.002-06:002021-12-16T22:56:41.983-06:00MERRY CHRISTMAS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Bethlehem, Judea</span></b></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Joseph, Mary and Baby Jesus</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4nvDq9TUs1XBAKljcrlYI7Kc5maF1WolzOVUkcvbvNpObfTLCPQ-c_92ou6fsFJGHCUfmr7SzT5CRFJVILcUCZ0Tk5G0f2utFJlvqWHGc07rFgGFKZxczMu-JUPDASTM7bIRVJ12r9zFO6YUSToGEIF3cb8d2m8XJjCo5jpJcvZDXHtt4qEVT7PI8wA=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4nvDq9TUs1XBAKljcrlYI7Kc5maF1WolzOVUkcvbvNpObfTLCPQ-c_92ou6fsFJGHCUfmr7SzT5CRFJVILcUCZ0Tk5G0f2utFJlvqWHGc07rFgGFKZxczMu-JUPDASTM7bIRVJ12r9zFO6YUSToGEIF3cb8d2m8XJjCo5jpJcvZDXHtt4qEVT7PI8wA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"...while they were there, the time came for her to be delivered. And she gave birth to her first-born son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn." </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"...for to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom he is pleased!"</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Merry Christmas</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Innkeeper made room for Jesus. Please always make room for Jesus too.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">-----</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Closing Remarks</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">Ignatius Holy Bible Verses: Luke 2: 6-7, 2 and 14.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">Figurines: King and Country The Life of Jesus 1:30 Scale</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">-----</span></p><p><br /></p>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-33708017703713752142021-11-20T20:23:00.010-06:002021-11-23T23:16:18.437-06:00<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: red; font-size: large;">A GENERAL PETTYGREE SHORT STORY</b></div><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Mary and General Pettygree On Expedition</b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Chapter 2 of 2 --- The End</b></div></b></span><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Date: Late 1930s<br />Location: Ruins of Gortyn, Island of Crete</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Circumstances: Search For the "Mythological" Labyrinth</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">See Chapter 1 posted July 15, 2021 here:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2021/07/nightmare-on-crete.html">https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2021/07/nightmare-on-crete.html</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">PREVIOUSLY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">When investigating the labyrinth entrance</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">at Gortyn on the Island of Crete</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhudBoDemURdUta9v8sG4Bkholkl3NGCS9S9rB9MPODqxZg6uwhH8ATBW4CQxanEezbBAaoB-_zQhVSEZdy5Nkawq8qxxIcuXyUkwheiVMnFEW_YRhg8iStqN7JmgnBI5MBotegvMg9JXo/s3888/img_3325.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhudBoDemURdUta9v8sG4Bkholkl3NGCS9S9rB9MPODqxZg6uwhH8ATBW4CQxanEezbBAaoB-_zQhVSEZdy5Nkawq8qxxIcuXyUkwheiVMnFEW_YRhg8iStqN7JmgnBI5MBotegvMg9JXo/w400-h400/img_3325.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>"Mary, on my mark fire two rounds into each of those undead skeletons. I'll put four into the beasty. Then run back to the horses and we'll gallop back to the ship."</span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"What are you waiting for?!"</span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Ready, aim, <b>FIRE!</b>"</span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKdxs8a0J1zTLbxVw8qC29r6FLJbo-7GPmgD_T0mxv1LqyFBntn8UXOiGyIFB0CCCvXofrcNNuS_im8G2w1Jgf7hm1fvU1JU74slLDdzPW3NECDB2qTz2dy_FpG-LbVhtM_OlfxPf-SA0/s2048/img_3326b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKdxs8a0J1zTLbxVw8qC29r6FLJbo-7GPmgD_T0mxv1LqyFBntn8UXOiGyIFB0CCCvXofrcNNuS_im8G2w1Jgf7hm1fvU1JU74slLDdzPW3NECDB2qTz2dy_FpG-LbVhtM_OlfxPf-SA0/w400-h266/img_3326b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">"What of Professor Basingstoke and his benefactor Sir Allan Catherwood?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"Dead surely, in the explosion. Now we must ride for our lives, Mary."</div></div></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8l5dfZ7wB4J0Md6OKRIujY60K5ZLkCGcdRjVriv44unE5c3w0bzKZj-r-AK1PSuDo8AgWf4GqNanNozpaVCWnYArU2aJlKCZiOjxKXYEQ8_aw-f6vAXPGs7o5Wf0p4Cc1A-XhfU1Psms/s2048/img_3328b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8l5dfZ7wB4J0Md6OKRIujY60K5ZLkCGcdRjVriv44unE5c3w0bzKZj-r-AK1PSuDo8AgWf4GqNanNozpaVCWnYArU2aJlKCZiOjxKXYEQ8_aw-f6vAXPGs7o5Wf0p4Cc1A-XhfU1Psms/w400-h268/img_3328b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"More have been aroused. What the deuce have we awakened from hell?"</div><div><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKE34ZZH4jawV-8AnDXsEeIFZnIiqc9x6xyCoT6292maeX4ABboEqfBT39NzG_NOXOnH9mCzdcS_fT8OWBop5T88gpZD3tEQpDC17V8ADxUNMHFglKP6o1MPAcHg2zBnL5uU4EsUrMcEM/s2048/img_3333b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKE34ZZH4jawV-8AnDXsEeIFZnIiqc9x6xyCoT6292maeX4ABboEqfBT39NzG_NOXOnH9mCzdcS_fT8OWBop5T88gpZD3tEQpDC17V8ADxUNMHFglKP6o1MPAcHg2zBnL5uU4EsUrMcEM/w400-h266/img_3333b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"At the <b><i>gallop</i></b> dear. --- Heeyahh!" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRsTHZnmJQNG6fmxtox1Aql6JMF6pDWctdrW0J0vOsVMuMiKM-wm6yC7qm1F6p4yqqqHNOrMN1SvabqHanuudjpRdkMTjnKv75T1aZSk1UyjzB4RKyw26H72vfX0bUfN-81tIsi_woQn8/s3888/img_3332.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRsTHZnmJQNG6fmxtox1Aql6JMF6pDWctdrW0J0vOsVMuMiKM-wm6yC7qm1F6p4yqqqHNOrMN1SvabqHanuudjpRdkMTjnKv75T1aZSk1UyjzB4RKyw26H72vfX0bUfN-81tIsi_woQn8/w400-h400/img_3332.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"They are pursuing us. Nimble damnations they are. Don't look back Mary!"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Yes dear. Onward to the safety of the ship. I see furious activity on deck, smoke starting from the stack and sailors going ashore at the double. The ship's horn is sounding."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSJok_99aZDje1omJfijL-EJzWU3WEeH4YpZjUcL_avKQKTm5wxl63pZw18r0hEmRNvaayRiXPJKEqsb8ZV4GAwHy5jxGTdDUaaxPE63T9ZTrqEBZDWV5HcJdDvui3sIfKg3uCtNA5siM/s2048/img_3334b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSJok_99aZDje1omJfijL-EJzWU3WEeH4YpZjUcL_avKQKTm5wxl63pZw18r0hEmRNvaayRiXPJKEqsb8ZV4GAwHy5jxGTdDUaaxPE63T9ZTrqEBZDWV5HcJdDvui3sIfKg3uCtNA5siM/w400-h400/img_3334b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">And from behind....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtuWLCIBOPoDibtYKd980vIMqyK6yKRW97VRC6g57h5pXeD-crt9yOouhGK7dd2r55_5HeOdKm-aYTZZP4v9CKJ1waTO7pd3ofX413oWCCswKumpvIKmyT2rmXMPrE7Z2wyVQA4VJdXLA/s3888/img_3335.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtuWLCIBOPoDibtYKd980vIMqyK6yKRW97VRC6g57h5pXeD-crt9yOouhGK7dd2r55_5HeOdKm-aYTZZP4v9CKJ1waTO7pd3ofX413oWCCswKumpvIKmyT2rmXMPrE7Z2wyVQA4VJdXLA/w400-h400/img_3335.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"This way my dear."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Right you are William. I see our rescuers."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkmeZa18DeKSSC7gNAW_CX5ErmZENO1a9M9tuPycG6alxDziEQroJ0XtrQz5QKqVuUL6ducMdVA8Zp6OwtL2ICkp2o2V8E6OxNlDd35v2okXe_PSj8jc0wIvXCpPQHyQ9fuSW89oiVVs8/s3888/img_3336.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkmeZa18DeKSSC7gNAW_CX5ErmZENO1a9M9tuPycG6alxDziEQroJ0XtrQz5QKqVuUL6ducMdVA8Zp6OwtL2ICkp2o2V8E6OxNlDd35v2okXe_PSj8jc0wIvXCpPQHyQ9fuSW89oiVVs8/w400-h400/img_3336.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"General, Lady Pettygree. Ride straight through to the ship. </span>We'll see off that lot. "</div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>"Thank you Lieutenant. Melville, isn't it?"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Aye General. </span><span>Off you go now Sir, if you please. --- </span><span>Shore party, <b>Load</b>!"</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigSHpxRWzteqn77pzEIX1xXEwjbU_MRfWHkgbTNJHg-7L4ua-tJcH872aKe-VCcaAiEtGwoaXptnk9sGUPj_YCdRxxTr0Tz6LDhxSCGo5IGxxncwHBAA82eZB0iHMes6bLPZB2GhNbyV4/s3888/img_3337.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigSHpxRWzteqn77pzEIX1xXEwjbU_MRfWHkgbTNJHg-7L4ua-tJcH872aKe-VCcaAiEtGwoaXptnk9sGUPj_YCdRxxTr0Tz6LDhxSCGo5IGxxncwHBAA82eZB0iHMes6bLPZB2GhNbyV4/w400-h400/img_3337.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Ready."</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAEuGMEC5PRFkv986fBcnC05dFGojIlov3MILCAHspy7ch-5A7eZj3igAZMgrhiBfZdW7ggC8nVyd0C6y1mEqD3wQn2DePiJE8NtDjygAvc73o8KlEK_Vu2PD1KqPi5rgPMnz4fdRCYBo/s3888/img_3339.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAEuGMEC5PRFkv986fBcnC05dFGojIlov3MILCAHspy7ch-5A7eZj3igAZMgrhiBfZdW7ggC8nVyd0C6y1mEqD3wQn2DePiJE8NtDjygAvc73o8KlEK_Vu2PD1KqPi5rgPMnz4fdRCYBo/w400-h400/img_3339.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Steady. --- Let 'em come a mite closer."</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAImiREdlI8G-1brAuuKOGN-tN13BeiUno18PPnNZvThKU-pU_0FYhKyT7RP4pS523NK5f_Nmo3vrSusPYV_XcG90voc5qTg-XZzxdWGwjY0maIc1_jduJI7Raq4ygO2vbJYls3dBtSX8/s3888/img_3342.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAImiREdlI8G-1brAuuKOGN-tN13BeiUno18PPnNZvThKU-pU_0FYhKyT7RP4pS523NK5f_Nmo3vrSusPYV_XcG90voc5qTg-XZzxdWGwjY0maIc1_jduJI7Raq4ygO2vbJYls3dBtSX8/w400-h400/img_3342.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Sir!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Present"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlJU-E7C7O8-7FrxA2TPBp_GB1KLL-MhRPx7gl3H9VUfM2ZzRq6l6gZEj13Bubg0qzDS_1XKh-z6utKefFGG3dYyPEhlP4Ul9bQHvQZRFWhtAAa7BHAeGXYnwKnyHPPRsLSAYrOidNnMc/s3888/img_3344.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlJU-E7C7O8-7FrxA2TPBp_GB1KLL-MhRPx7gl3H9VUfM2ZzRq6l6gZEj13Bubg0qzDS_1XKh-z6utKefFGG3dYyPEhlP4Ul9bQHvQZRFWhtAAa7BHAeGXYnwKnyHPPRsLSAYrOidNnMc/w400-h400/img_3344.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Fire!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizPJQvv1eQ5C5JYW5i9Ni6A1enMcdK1osSqUs4LttU_rzvwX7bUviuChSvyODPg9VnQKGx_I9eEexn5fwq6YFUOlTDhyphenhyphenlKvbd_k2YksrOPy_qR2sppiqKg3MI6tRgSbpKnwy5n1xcNRLg/s3888/img_3345.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizPJQvv1eQ5C5JYW5i9Ni6A1enMcdK1osSqUs4LttU_rzvwX7bUviuChSvyODPg9VnQKGx_I9eEexn5fwq6YFUOlTDhyphenhyphenlKvbd_k2YksrOPy_qR2sppiqKg3MI6tRgSbpKnwy5n1xcNRLg/w400-h400/img_3345.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Damnation. They broke through. Not a shot at point blank range dropped any of 'em!"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Back to the ship!</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmxxTfRGQ5AhmCHWVvc4Fakg7DEh0rVAWYjGTXNlcODVU_sHCAlYUgCT-j6kJwxqE-vq21OxJyLUBoB8-Kzp-rFlE6GIkncz9VWDaFo4JPaQm-RtiXFFJr7DRClv75y0grDF0HYTt7T6U/s3888/img_3346.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmxxTfRGQ5AhmCHWVvc4Fakg7DEh0rVAWYjGTXNlcODVU_sHCAlYUgCT-j6kJwxqE-vq21OxJyLUBoB8-Kzp-rFlE6GIkncz9VWDaFo4JPaQm-RtiXFFJr7DRClv75y0grDF0HYTt7T6U/w400-h400/img_3346.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Captain Braithwaite. Can you get underway, now?"</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtwlBlhH-_YMRft9MsJpVEw8ZhtLhUp1zOBLzviwlMPkwskaYVL0MDFNx1RwZp6qe3vLL7ozTxmHFTGuUK4_aGfgDwi8L69KxQ9yJiq_g1NwQE91CgpWIZ_vRmzepIW-a_h6F6gaw4S7U/s3888/img_3347.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtwlBlhH-_YMRft9MsJpVEw8ZhtLhUp1zOBLzviwlMPkwskaYVL0MDFNx1RwZp6qe3vLL7ozTxmHFTGuUK4_aGfgDwi8L69KxQ9yJiq_g1NwQE91CgpWIZ_vRmzepIW-a_h6F6gaw4S7U/w400-h400/img_3347.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"The boilers are fired General. It will take a few minutes."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"No time then. We must make a stand here."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6AxyjKK-ZnTLsKq4yoBtnZRficG_p_W0u-ynn_Iu1t0IieUSPMPzl4uT_3MINhhLaeQmf3hgWKFIQYCYdrSNEZwFbrye7jEQ1wcDluIT8duONfYQnR-iAIP5kElh77sowEeIH71cFDTs/s3888/img_3348.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6AxyjKK-ZnTLsKq4yoBtnZRficG_p_W0u-ynn_Iu1t0IieUSPMPzl4uT_3MINhhLaeQmf3hgWKFIQYCYdrSNEZwFbrye7jEQ1wcDluIT8duONfYQnR-iAIP5kElh77sowEeIH71cFDTs/w400-h400/img_3348.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Bob and Tiny. Stand to. Help Lady Pettygree aboard."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Aye, Captink."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Thank you Captain. Ouch! Thank you, Mr. Tiny."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Beg'n yur pard'n, Mum."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgGQdb00Ht9UxVUNQD_bRetRzFwccvm6uM3BokELTxN8eSP43co4ZwzaPHtWRkXU9skt1BJIuKox43gxLHHrVQBRxPXTuQZZEaGBL11UdvoSvotWqYV7yg0jFAs7plRGpr07kT5YwRwd8/s3888/img_3349.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgGQdb00Ht9UxVUNQD_bRetRzFwccvm6uM3BokELTxN8eSP43co4ZwzaPHtWRkXU9skt1BJIuKox43gxLHHrVQBRxPXTuQZZEaGBL11UdvoSvotWqYV7yg0jFAs7plRGpr07kT5YwRwd8/w400-h400/img_3349.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Up you go, m' Lady."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUiZfe8QF0H0W3QxKX6TzvGnwZf-HWhxHMa15Mpv-oiMD0xrTrqF5NGcR6e-vE9CMM5ikG8U52gaXCSA_JEIr7v5X8Ij5YB8wG03CQLCWzx6z6tr44ALvGV5UKNJiZQNcRKhZsbwurrBc/s3888/img_3350.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUiZfe8QF0H0W3QxKX6TzvGnwZf-HWhxHMa15Mpv-oiMD0xrTrqF5NGcR6e-vE9CMM5ikG8U52gaXCSA_JEIr7v5X8Ij5YB8wG03CQLCWzx6z6tr44ALvGV5UKNJiZQNcRKhZsbwurrBc/w400-h400/img_3350.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Ship's Crew. Make every shot count! --- </span>Stern battery!"</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP9mdjURYuoGPwugxVZo_OYw0j-vcaSqIbYgbyQ8EU6xI9TuyP78Cdpzl6XdGIWIyAWFAgOYjxdIcNQsfR2zd5JaFzMDGnvtxdzmC5pMdH7J4r5m-cgyZ9ZSihbs6S5H82jiyj9OCCnjo/s3888/img_3352.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP9mdjURYuoGPwugxVZo_OYw0j-vcaSqIbYgbyQ8EU6xI9TuyP78Cdpzl6XdGIWIyAWFAgOYjxdIcNQsfR2zd5JaFzMDGnvtxdzmC5pMdH7J4r5m-cgyZ9ZSihbs6S5H82jiyj9OCCnjo/w400-h400/img_3352.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Shoot!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX9HqIsMYIZ-T5Oqd_DzlRmPcLACCF4gQtkdr4dEK0vI9-sozrLZWZd_JKqI4QmSvDSNHaekbAzyBJWMuqq6_mveeyPeCyBQUHV4Osu-fV7PRccuejfvZm_r3rQOaEWRXzu8JUSMioonM/s3888/img_3353.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX9HqIsMYIZ-T5Oqd_DzlRmPcLACCF4gQtkdr4dEK0vI9-sozrLZWZd_JKqI4QmSvDSNHaekbAzyBJWMuqq6_mveeyPeCyBQUHV4Osu-fV7PRccuejfvZm_r3rQOaEWRXzu8JUSMioonM/w400-h400/img_3353.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Here the devils come lads."</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-j0IYNBOvQZ4hjlXDweRfmsQNLH1jytkgMcPOm_wC52kOdli4swDJQWy2zUmNdVDUoI6I_3XfG0w-wAIL0F7mw3KjK0LleU6-2ABvcITZFd7ozqw6xKeEgBo7TyhrKVR91M5NIWOnFbk/s3888/img_3354.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-j0IYNBOvQZ4hjlXDweRfmsQNLH1jytkgMcPOm_wC52kOdli4swDJQWy2zUmNdVDUoI6I_3XfG0w-wAIL0F7mw3KjK0LleU6-2ABvcITZFd7ozqw6xKeEgBo7TyhrKVR91M5NIWOnFbk/w400-h400/img_3354.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Martini Henrys, revolvers, Thompson sub-machine guns, 1903 American Springfield rifles, shotguns, Mary's Luger and more poured lethal fire into the advancing horde. Parts and pieces flew off of the monsters.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4teYBN9rWYnmK9O0WRllIGG_2ICPiEd4v_A3u-5IltovnSmb59D4hrzlyODldTFWmlgWOfEIRlpxAxVMbcSoHxFoEinaLpHVcm4fMRXLqq-MLMcIH933BwtvOM1_PYMjDB8GfDfCvWe4/s3888/img_3355.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4teYBN9rWYnmK9O0WRllIGG_2ICPiEd4v_A3u-5IltovnSmb59D4hrzlyODldTFWmlgWOfEIRlpxAxVMbcSoHxFoEinaLpHVcm4fMRXLqq-MLMcIH933BwtvOM1_PYMjDB8GfDfCvWe4/w400-h400/img_3355.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Mary, my dear."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Yes, I know."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0vFyBGtjW9-6JhCLtXnhNIYeFrthNa7tt6Vzf0GmNNno6vrQYiiqnNJ1-MmAm9MoBIsgRU0CDNxrfa5x1sHwJ3WeclBH5dxWE2Ay1evlGYC1ENjdAylahS7kJ78MUnHNrKFtI0pn9AQo/s3888/img_3356.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0vFyBGtjW9-6JhCLtXnhNIYeFrthNa7tt6Vzf0GmNNno6vrQYiiqnNJ1-MmAm9MoBIsgRU0CDNxrfa5x1sHwJ3WeclBH5dxWE2Ay1evlGYC1ENjdAylahS7kJ78MUnHNrKFtI0pn9AQo/w400-h400/img_3356.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Hey Mate. They're com'n aboard. Back up."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH6qt2A3fD9WKsucDxLflzhPkWMGM85oOMz17lh01nTP6zWMx92Kpm8x-iEL49bb82tFHaWre7OWt1uwxA78pUV_lvkSfmPgq1cCh53VwKsj_k_9ocGhbuxAHuiRPzZTBABtol0hPh_FY/s3888/img_3358.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH6qt2A3fD9WKsucDxLflzhPkWMGM85oOMz17lh01nTP6zWMx92Kpm8x-iEL49bb82tFHaWre7OWt1uwxA78pUV_lvkSfmPgq1cCh53VwKsj_k_9ocGhbuxAHuiRPzZTBABtol0hPh_FY/w400-h400/img_3358.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Keep firing or we'll have to give 'em hand to hand or swim for it."</div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilO7WBJljChNldbW1gWoPgyXsmsaJRZxRrLH0GIVH_dRVU_076o-871wb62n3uMxBEfwHs2svvFZcf_s12HMLEZj6BgEXt8yCyO34dXzNQtC_H7bARl0sYCXDE6e2XK2a7liv9GtrdJPU/s3888/img_3359.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilO7WBJljChNldbW1gWoPgyXsmsaJRZxRrLH0GIVH_dRVU_076o-871wb62n3uMxBEfwHs2svvFZcf_s12HMLEZj6BgEXt8yCyO34dXzNQtC_H7bARl0sYCXDE6e2XK2a7liv9GtrdJPU/w400-h400/img_3359.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Aim for the eyes, Mary."</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdXcoBf-aQtuuOXkG0FtKDw0CviFrq7VfGq9kjjm4pv8uO6XyvtSb2t8wZ1ZKSejmmizTimaA81f0QDJv8gDeVBGSII0xPMgnTYqgywx4SiR2qsH5OycbUXzKZDjGWypq-yOjdBAvyVo4/s3888/img_3360.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdXcoBf-aQtuuOXkG0FtKDw0CviFrq7VfGq9kjjm4pv8uO6XyvtSb2t8wZ1ZKSejmmizTimaA81f0QDJv8gDeVBGSII0xPMgnTYqgywx4SiR2qsH5OycbUXzKZDjGWypq-yOjdBAvyVo4/w400-h400/img_3360.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Right."</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicKBb9onfPzm3j4RPzyyYquAtL-mKmmPwdJCFmX8exEE_HBprNse2jdS7OjSKbc3KNnwdc3RNhpM-Ev70uJQ7Cz-yhtdx0NulT-jhXri8HeKqN1ZZeXLKQyaZAVDRMN74FmGe1VMaBu9g/s2048/img_3361c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicKBb9onfPzm3j4RPzyyYquAtL-mKmmPwdJCFmX8exEE_HBprNse2jdS7OjSKbc3KNnwdc3RNhpM-Ev70uJQ7Cz-yhtdx0NulT-jhXri8HeKqN1ZZeXLKQyaZAVDRMN74FmGe1VMaBu9g/w400-h266/img_3361c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Alright then, you infernal hideous demon."</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3iNa65X8rx3bnGKyByOBzTT9OssB6dIEMco27Chyphenhypheniyx5Q47ZcUr4N0HnjO99HnAFsWcPDeFidlIb_Is8W26SnD44xdxIpHUPgRNw1LKdd5649urv7GjyfMbnjMewqr_Tm9p30UGHdqj4/s2048/img_3362b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3iNa65X8rx3bnGKyByOBzTT9OssB6dIEMco27Chyphenhypheniyx5Q47ZcUr4N0HnjO99HnAFsWcPDeFidlIb_Is8W26SnD44xdxIpHUPgRNw1LKdd5649urv7GjyfMbnjMewqr_Tm9p30UGHdqj4/w400-h400/img_3362b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"It's my sail knife you'll be feel'n. Not talk'n, eh?"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7ob-ylbl-Hn6b1TjWVB1NpfFweaJj1mvbflSOGydzCCHRzx6UTHyqH_yeDUJA76htTZSt4XinVaRedXnB2I1tg4jIMR6Yyv3rOmj9ghnQbFtTSzaoKAYr4ns9sdmcR6ccxC-RoD2FJg/s3888/img_3363.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7ob-ylbl-Hn6b1TjWVB1NpfFweaJj1mvbflSOGydzCCHRzx6UTHyqH_yeDUJA76htTZSt4XinVaRedXnB2I1tg4jIMR6Yyv3rOmj9ghnQbFtTSzaoKAYr4ns9sdmcR6ccxC-RoD2FJg/w400-h400/img_3363.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Run!"</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkDa96LaGYtz-O0OZyCUdo3ltibIJ-Eaku7Sw7luObwVaIlibovyUkkGuh3cI_0QxSSoezYQWhn3BztvtynCY9uE2qJjIfjPd_whUZwjsWh95JuTVKjS5AVdcsj9bfzOhwxdidHLj1mHY/s3888/img_3364.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkDa96LaGYtz-O0OZyCUdo3ltibIJ-Eaku7Sw7luObwVaIlibovyUkkGuh3cI_0QxSSoezYQWhn3BztvtynCY9uE2qJjIfjPd_whUZwjsWh95JuTVKjS5AVdcsj9bfzOhwxdidHLj1mHY/w400-h400/img_3364.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Time to abandon ship. Everyone, into the water."</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRFzIwLdGBlhg7xy9oA6xW8sS5HuEJ-cbT8ZkTRfAamxKTy-NGuFx-ROLlbyoC28_JHlOyEkT-Gbisk9aDp5afXiHnogAkTzy-D6SR4r9WhPOa31ul6zQt6MK-ZZZDNAFa7LDcAe0LVz0/s3888/img_3365.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRFzIwLdGBlhg7xy9oA6xW8sS5HuEJ-cbT8ZkTRfAamxKTy-NGuFx-ROLlbyoC28_JHlOyEkT-Gbisk9aDp5afXiHnogAkTzy-D6SR4r9WhPOa31ul6zQt6MK-ZZZDNAFa7LDcAe0LVz0/w400-h400/img_3365.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Nothing stops them William."</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdYsk8o0GprWqy3jilhNRXs5oqpyN-OTTm_GBylG8bqkq-VeUEUSwbxrXrByAMxFiEusqMlhf1PIPQFxFd6aWQo7AcvpJefbZnEro9NyA4qXU76FeFh4BqdDVbSWuqgqSIkQcxTYFe8kQ/s3888/img_3366.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdYsk8o0GprWqy3jilhNRXs5oqpyN-OTTm_GBylG8bqkq-VeUEUSwbxrXrByAMxFiEusqMlhf1PIPQFxFd6aWQo7AcvpJefbZnEro9NyA4qXU76FeFh4BqdDVbSWuqgqSIkQcxTYFe8kQ/w400-h400/img_3366.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"We're both out of ammunition."</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBeqdjwCbgJks4gM3zJgWRDfHYHmdNXtmV4uCcRU_z8MVQgZYPElQR49C0o7C_XGK20HCJeYfKqpitZjICiqaqXNFVfk7q3YfFOa__8ASq1Gw3QdiFGSlq2cC2KqPgshMYR_4VSY-1Pok/s3888/img_3367.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBeqdjwCbgJks4gM3zJgWRDfHYHmdNXtmV4uCcRU_z8MVQgZYPElQR49C0o7C_XGK20HCJeYfKqpitZjICiqaqXNFVfk7q3YfFOa__8ASq1Gw3QdiFGSlq2cC2KqPgshMYR_4VSY-1Pok/w400-h400/img_3367.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Just ignore it my love and look at me."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFj_FPUVfr0CDsl2xojl1b8Vpiy8AwJDnKdVJUX0dYh9KtD1qM87iR_BwEm7pJMQf3aKI8DtO6EOdpUoC68PUkahTfAByxGCHhIn_qkCvUbrp3tM8vxUp51rIx720Tz8PAeFPeffP-3g0/s3888/img_3370.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFj_FPUVfr0CDsl2xojl1b8Vpiy8AwJDnKdVJUX0dYh9KtD1qM87iR_BwEm7pJMQf3aKI8DtO6EOdpUoC68PUkahTfAByxGCHhIn_qkCvUbrp3tM8vxUp51rIx720Tz8PAeFPeffP-3g0/w400-h400/img_3370.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Shouldn't we jump into the water?"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"No good Mary. Denizens are surfacing there attacking the sailors who did jump." </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBqKwN7IKnwzWcHNfw-EYFU21RrSHpzejgzCAcKh5HbtZFjQs5mgi7LSL3ePdWFSizLhZoGXun3pVw63dcg3DroFzVE9ACG-jyIGrXXYmBwzUg5mNBktDpRM-_i-McdMRrOrf3qapzJYI/s2048/img_3376b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBqKwN7IKnwzWcHNfw-EYFU21RrSHpzejgzCAcKh5HbtZFjQs5mgi7LSL3ePdWFSizLhZoGXun3pVw63dcg3DroFzVE9ACG-jyIGrXXYmBwzUg5mNBktDpRM-_i-McdMRrOrf3qapzJYI/w400-h266/img_3376b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"We'll be home soon."</div></span></div><div><span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRHOB-5XUU_th3SbjwmoRZ8F5fNKPdPW-fOXZ_KfaX4eC-iRtjrB7EhF7TIFhqZdbjrMAAHZq_M_8Xc7fpwXG8eQkJy0q8ZUCVj0WuOawtc8Kae1ZL-Dx8xkKdwCN9kzmVfXNa3fCi78U/s3888/img_3773.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRHOB-5XUU_th3SbjwmoRZ8F5fNKPdPW-fOXZ_KfaX4eC-iRtjrB7EhF7TIFhqZdbjrMAAHZq_M_8Xc7fpwXG8eQkJy0q8ZUCVj0WuOawtc8Kae1ZL-Dx8xkKdwCN9kzmVfXNa3fCi78U/w200-h200/img_3773.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">---------- ---------- ----------</b></span></div></span></div><span><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: red; font-size: large;">EPILOGUE</span></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitcR4_z6QjmCuroWa0c0CcKOMdcX9kLbtocCX2uSziu0lObV-7gVLonI8WkA_JdefQq7ntVe0VZIG_F8SqsSmBkDE1tke5inbNzgU_IvP8SFTynlP_y5zeGLXAa4o-Kco7gQuqexjyj_s/s2048/img_3775b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitcR4_z6QjmCuroWa0c0CcKOMdcX9kLbtocCX2uSziu0lObV-7gVLonI8WkA_JdefQq7ntVe0VZIG_F8SqsSmBkDE1tke5inbNzgU_IvP8SFTynlP_y5zeGLXAa4o-Kco7gQuqexjyj_s/w400-h266/img_3775b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Letter for you, Sir."</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiN0dOptyfwSGF2ORATRBQD4rmoycU5Yq3Eeh_7OiASpSNYxM1v4zQBhvcnZml4hDqc1N-NBkKfwEHzQ9hM_E7vDh4bG2NtGoX6O18cDGGRKMmiYY4JS4p2Ah97nVcz8gmxid1iGAHaOU/s2048/img_3777c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiN0dOptyfwSGF2ORATRBQD4rmoycU5Yq3Eeh_7OiASpSNYxM1v4zQBhvcnZml4hDqc1N-NBkKfwEHzQ9hM_E7vDh4bG2NtGoX6O18cDGGRKMmiYY4JS4p2Ah97nVcz8gmxid1iGAHaOU/w400-h266/img_3777c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Mrs. Gaytheringdust. Is Mrs. Pettygree ready for breakfast?"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Yes Sir. Coming down now --- an' lovely as always."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Mary. The post arrived with an extraordinary opportunity." </span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8__sDztFKnDEYTKLXsTT-WN4h-HUi8I9tE3EnkzwuwBBBILmdBWmkwQwEbV_bl0b4mMaH_jmrjVmnkOyUnFIepbzuitxcewenSQ31f2tXTYc_snyYn6OmI_j9xQ3b9ID_hHpBhqhvr4Q/s3888/img_3779.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8__sDztFKnDEYTKLXsTT-WN4h-HUi8I9tE3EnkzwuwBBBILmdBWmkwQwEbV_bl0b4mMaH_jmrjVmnkOyUnFIepbzuitxcewenSQ31f2tXTYc_snyYn6OmI_j9xQ3b9ID_hHpBhqhvr4Q/w400-h400/img_3779.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"I'll be down in a flash. From whom?"</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-hgosF3GzNAE5ZO1eAMm4JFXQK5A7xvZ1KqMU35Yv8arLy3005oeE4JAh2ZNyuly-QUybr5ObhSrLIpwrvg9L8f3sZWeaQ8tmJNHh_rlcqbraOLjEuP8FOyfBtNzOgqhGudNEGIMJDKo/s3888/img_3780.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-hgosF3GzNAE5ZO1eAMm4JFXQK5A7xvZ1KqMU35Yv8arLy3005oeE4JAh2ZNyuly-QUybr5ObhSrLIpwrvg9L8f3sZWeaQ8tmJNHh_rlcqbraOLjEuP8FOyfBtNzOgqhGudNEGIMJDKo/w400-h400/img_3780.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"It's from my old friend, Professor Basingstoke. He finally secured partial funding to continue his excavation from Sir Allan Catherwood. He wants us to join them because of our keen interest in antiquity."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"And surely for you to publish a story as well. Where dear?"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"The r</span><span>uins at Gortyn on the Island of Crete. He believes recent clues strongly point to </span><span>the hitherto thought mythological underground Labyrinth, the lair of the Minotaur. Would you consider going?"</span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOwJcxEHcMJFI2Dr1fR1ubPzvYE9zb2wS0dUegrQ1CVHnf3EYPz8MoOxlvDKSW-QtKXdgylJl9w7iDMt8iorOBF-cdBTY61RJNGpZK28Num_l3mt77vroDUAG05pUcqWeh_ElFbejmonI/s2048/img_3781b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOwJcxEHcMJFI2Dr1fR1ubPzvYE9zb2wS0dUegrQ1CVHnf3EYPz8MoOxlvDKSW-QtKXdgylJl9w7iDMt8iorOBF-cdBTY61RJNGpZK28Num_l3mt77vroDUAG05pUcqWeh_ElFbejmonI/w400-h266/img_3781b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"A profoundly disturbing dream vexed my sleep last night. Do you believe in premonitions, William?"</div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: red; font-size: large;">---------- ---------- ----------</span></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: red; font-size: large;"><b>CLOSING REMARKS</b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Mythologicals gathered and painted by Chuck L. (The Lucky). Ruins are mostly from pet retailer aquarium departments. The sailors are Perry Sudan 28mms. The ship was artistically scratch-built by the late Richard Houston. Civilian ship's crew are from the evocative range sculpted by Bob Murch, Pulp Figures.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Thank you sincerely for looking in. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: red; font-size: large;">---------- ---------- ----------</span></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: medium;"> </div></span></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-16691740928205074832021-07-15T00:54:00.004-05:002021-07-17T09:55:18.068-05:00NIGHTMARE ON CRETE<div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: red; font-size: medium;">A GENERAL PETTYGREE SHORT STORY</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: red; font-size: medium;">Mary and General Pettygree On Expedition</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: red; font-size: medium;">Chapter 1 of 2</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Date: Late 1930s<br />Location: Ruins of Gortyn, Island of Crete</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Circumstances: Search For the "Mythological" Labyrinth</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUA_G4Pm1gzpCMvLMDHFWaEuj_REjV8rfyyvjvUgGGLzogdTydXUlCw32B6gdU8x0zoPzV0H7XTaHuvJ9pMc6w0-vWhzEYzlaoAFPnIcurnOrNjmrG3uL8FhoWj1yv2Y4_nk817BjAQEI/s3888/img_3302.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUA_G4Pm1gzpCMvLMDHFWaEuj_REjV8rfyyvjvUgGGLzogdTydXUlCw32B6gdU8x0zoPzV0H7XTaHuvJ9pMc6w0-vWhzEYzlaoAFPnIcurnOrNjmrG3uL8FhoWj1yv2Y4_nk817BjAQEI/w400-h400/img_3302.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"There it is Mary. The ancient ruins of Gortyn.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"William, I did not expect it to be so large."</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqBDgT6hGz4uZMA1WXBTOnsa2jBvhMXJqKTH4w_LBOSfpY6QJ1jVELviUhbIy9IalsFN9YSOlVsURyvsd7AOxHoX07LB-701vITPcX45NCEjzV1RNMmGmvodRRmaQzTMdnOF-86-jICus/s3888/img_3301.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqBDgT6hGz4uZMA1WXBTOnsa2jBvhMXJqKTH4w_LBOSfpY6QJ1jVELviUhbIy9IalsFN9YSOlVsURyvsd7AOxHoX07LB-701vITPcX45NCEjzV1RNMmGmvodRRmaQzTMdnOF-86-jICus/w400-h400/img_3301.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Professor Basingstoke and his benefactor Sir Allan Catherwood should have seen us riding up from the ship by now."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"There they are dear."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmL7d5iujLjRCAGSRGHIYG6IpuKNCQ6Ko66myzLb2eVK5qsC2ZHFvz8OCDQVXGOXxJnj1Y9pxnFgekpRDlBzuD4sNsV9G6wKSCifG8VJDd2w9OgP6cQQTR63H6y8ou5c6j9JCutjI7lqg/s3888/img_3304.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmL7d5iujLjRCAGSRGHIYG6IpuKNCQ6Ko66myzLb2eVK5qsC2ZHFvz8OCDQVXGOXxJnj1Y9pxnFgekpRDlBzuD4sNsV9G6wKSCifG8VJDd2w9OgP6cQQTR63H6y8ou5c6j9JCutjI7lqg/w400-h400/img_3304.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Here come the Pettygrees Basingstoke."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Dare we hope what we are about to open for the first time in the modern era will enrapture the general's readers?"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"And bring in sizeable grants from the Royal Archaeological Society and perhaps some wealthy American to keep this dig active. --- Aye."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGo3Tugn_n80pVfEeHYZ3zkTZv2p6ONkYPFdzlLehKCqob6j3Ali0Xdfctvy05R2ZZ-3EHTSR6BZVyly6vXT8iwh62GP4QVRvLCPERjbFpxaFts5R5G1aalZk_hMz0I_cjApdzaKc2cUc/s3888/img_3305.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGo3Tugn_n80pVfEeHYZ3zkTZv2p6ONkYPFdzlLehKCqob6j3Ali0Xdfctvy05R2ZZ-3EHTSR6BZVyly6vXT8iwh62GP4QVRvLCPERjbFpxaFts5R5G1aalZk_hMz0I_cjApdzaKc2cUc/w400-h400/img_3305.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Welcome to Gortyn Mr. and Mrs. Pettygree."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"No. Thank you indeed. Your message arrived in Alexandria just in time before we sailed for home. Your suggestion that my readers might find the hopeful discovery and first opening of the mythological labyrinth said to be here from antiquity is intriguing."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Professor Basingstoke?"</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpgLxI3EGNaUYUs79Gi7PugmC9olyKGfMBR7USUN2ixhiNERbrYTA3ZSAV0IaujPenJnnafYuLJ3gV-LGGM03Q92D76aKOdAChpRe8lVNEvTcLZoeoZ2_0SxQxul-gp1hNF9WSB316P8w/s3888/img_3306.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpgLxI3EGNaUYUs79Gi7PugmC9olyKGfMBR7USUN2ixhiNERbrYTA3ZSAV0IaujPenJnnafYuLJ3gV-LGGM03Q92D76aKOdAChpRe8lVNEvTcLZoeoZ2_0SxQxul-gp1hNF9WSB316P8w/w400-h400/img_3306.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Yes, Mrs. Pettygree."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCrtJQOOG2oUPEmuxBWmcuXUHSPyuPsZXxVm1YU2hK5xle4g7vmCff5zlUyCSz_tedlwMkiWR8ZwRbwafvc0FuGRk14_aTLK18EBX3lZJm1nFA-7EeKNMosiqyZswCZ0qQ-1FQbvNEquE/s3888/img_3305.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCrtJQOOG2oUPEmuxBWmcuXUHSPyuPsZXxVm1YU2hK5xle4g7vmCff5zlUyCSz_tedlwMkiWR8ZwRbwafvc0FuGRk14_aTLK18EBX3lZJm1nFA-7EeKNMosiqyZswCZ0qQ-1FQbvNEquE/w400-h400/img_3305.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Mary will be fine. Is the entrance to what you hope will be the labyrinth just ahead within those prodigious columns?"</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"We thought so at first. But no. It is near but you need to dismount to get there." </span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSxXrRU4ROz5JxOpfi2psYCpSL48CPq69KgHXbhM4-vrWidXNDZ7vKfv-TZsyQGObzFwYU5rDwsjD4w6AL4q_dZHvAo63-L_BcMGh3iBSixQKG1kwrbFnXgSx_Fu4zOZqwEYor4FWdiT4/s3888/img_3308.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSxXrRU4ROz5JxOpfi2psYCpSL48CPq69KgHXbhM4-vrWidXNDZ7vKfv-TZsyQGObzFwYU5rDwsjD4w6AL4q_dZHvAo63-L_BcMGh3iBSixQKG1kwrbFnXgSx_Fu4zOZqwEYor4FWdiT4/w400-h400/img_3308.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Mykonis a local goat shepherd will guide us to it. There he is and he appears to be ready to take us down."</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB-ILVM7S9VvGMvKV1pOQb6YdYle9Ru_6uvbn9syYbRxNwDv456QbO06_VTihT5pb-lceV6ZnO5iAImsor-eARyVkZvDR28B6xicYMQZsrWMbESOf849Dw57xtjFInxsYMkMtpHjRo_pw/s3888/img_3309.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB-ILVM7S9VvGMvKV1pOQb6YdYle9Ru_6uvbn9syYbRxNwDv456QbO06_VTihT5pb-lceV6ZnO5iAImsor-eARyVkZvDR28B6xicYMQZsrWMbESOf849Dw57xtjFInxsYMkMtpHjRo_pw/w400-h400/img_3309.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Engleesch people, Yassou and Kalimera! Come come...."</div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">(Hello and good morning)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyD7phHdqqYR4E-s2OLBDOCMG8PWJNXyLkFXJWgN3B88MpXmUJbwntpzG9QL6lyBZAZTHPcvYjNjf9dn3p4NfRkKQrw_Z64ABb2vlOr8dT2AOxHbErqB8ShN26K4FifrU2VXr-pkEwlbw/s2048/img_3312b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyD7phHdqqYR4E-s2OLBDOCMG8PWJNXyLkFXJWgN3B88MpXmUJbwntpzG9QL6lyBZAZTHPcvYjNjf9dn3p4NfRkKQrw_Z64ABb2vlOr8dT2AOxHbErqB8ShN26K4FifrU2VXr-pkEwlbw/w400-h266/img_3312b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"According to Basingstoke's map, this is only a minor temple edifice. It hardly seems likely that it shelters the cave entrance to the home of the mythological minotaur."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Is it is safe? It is in a terrible state, William."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"No telling my dear, but it took more than two thousand years to crumble into this condition. We can only hope that probabilities are with us --- today at least --- we should be alright."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Yes, I agree. Nothing ventured. Nothing gained. Let's enter, shall we?"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Right you are Mary."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvmYHxIGykUZy9rKFmuNPwI0HgXKYF6MwRICGPmDDykraNkpzu4Qr46nBE19bb7mXIYxW9xHTz-LPNgCopi3ndGNkR57-ZFzMS5-BdJLc9KOZSEZQrYnxfswVWZzTVc2xGq0fnL597H8A/s3888/img_3313.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvmYHxIGykUZy9rKFmuNPwI0HgXKYF6MwRICGPmDDykraNkpzu4Qr46nBE19bb7mXIYxW9xHTz-LPNgCopi3ndGNkR57-ZFzMS5-BdJLc9KOZSEZQrYnxfswVWZzTVc2xGq0fnL597H8A/w400-h400/img_3313.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Mykonis will lead with the torch followed by Catherwood and then us," said Basingstoke.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwN0ZthyphenhyphenVPDZP6qa17idTa5Ct9JcOubt0y_w9La7iY2bEMtLaghDvCGA0u-VkZBOVfHKbTvSGDAEts6snoj6SMK3vT9qDBuonNXcmv90R1evKPAjRr64hyphenhyphenpW7niuJ6TstywUcFgUSGmA4/s3888/img_3314.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwN0ZthyphenhyphenVPDZP6qa17idTa5Ct9JcOubt0y_w9La7iY2bEMtLaghDvCGA0u-VkZBOVfHKbTvSGDAEts6snoj6SMK3vT9qDBuonNXcmv90R1evKPAjRr64hyphenhyphenpW7niuJ6TstywUcFgUSGmA4/w400-h400/img_3314.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Come come my friends. All is well say I, Mykonis."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5ygdey-S56ACXHvykWoM-p5amou2yO9tKRHyOgoxo-ktM4xSELZiz-s-9V3q5m0mKvPBd21Yf4q9k2rW0O533UoJDJKk6_j0n04Zv1QnTBVplwv_ZbAztWu2RtqtlbRGR9Izro4vefg/s3888/img_3315.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5ygdey-S56ACXHvykWoM-p5amou2yO9tKRHyOgoxo-ktM4xSELZiz-s-9V3q5m0mKvPBd21Yf4q9k2rW0O533UoJDJKk6_j0n04Zv1QnTBVplwv_ZbAztWu2RtqtlbRGR9Izro4vefg/w400-h400/img_3315.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Goodness that torch has fantastic illumination, William."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As Mary turned to look back inside, Mykonis bellowed....</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRRf6VMuS9fKbawyyjephgVxexj4z4psS-EyE-y_kkJPLiFpWxNvN4Hgqxj5UYxpZmWnOEtAs5C2fD18Mk9fZ0DkvkyR7RNWhdLF9HJuw1dOw0ApN2BoK0B8JOM9NjGOKZPKGneqDHMJY/s2048/img_3317b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRRf6VMuS9fKbawyyjephgVxexj4z4psS-EyE-y_kkJPLiFpWxNvN4Hgqxj5UYxpZmWnOEtAs5C2fD18Mk9fZ0DkvkyR7RNWhdLF9HJuw1dOw0ApN2BoK0B8JOM9NjGOKZPKGneqDHMJY/w400-h266/img_3317b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Stamata!" (Stop!)</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkCKC04AFxhP9Y96AH4-z44E3Cisn2mxKsxUON6jlx3F00mahwmkvheGvHX0FcfJbrrg1BqJ0oxk2SPOlD1JVQJZPk0WfhJhymJXRg60S4xAaShGk45-LONRBaoG0ov6tLG1C71odElE/s3888/img_3318.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkCKC04AFxhP9Y96AH4-z44E3Cisn2mxKsxUON6jlx3F00mahwmkvheGvHX0FcfJbrrg1BqJ0oxk2SPOlD1JVQJZPk0WfhJhymJXRg60S4xAaShGk45-LONRBaoG0ov6tLG1C71odElE/w400-h400/img_3318.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A great shaking ensued followed by crumbling stonework, horrendous noise and firery smoke concealing mortal injuries and s</span>creams from within the edifice. Basingstoke and the Pettygrees were thrown backwards off their feet by the earthquake.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRNu3dV-Io2li41y-g6oveFbl2Q7LTHyfSIiXJ_EBFSLVtiHznY5RUUSwwvGgV_ssGpZfERJ71EtrFCIyKp4ui3L7wyfyV6kj_0fdeGWou6P8SfQYuQvFXYU8KEhPXu60YQwNmU8sEpX8/s2048/img_3319b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRNu3dV-Io2li41y-g6oveFbl2Q7LTHyfSIiXJ_EBFSLVtiHznY5RUUSwwvGgV_ssGpZfERJ71EtrFCIyKp4ui3L7wyfyV6kj_0fdeGWou6P8SfQYuQvFXYU8KEhPXu60YQwNmU8sEpX8/w400-h266/img_3319b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Oh William. Professor Basingstoke is dead, crushed by this fallen stone!"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Mary! Something else is wrong. Listen. Unholster your revolver."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijh47UjB02x1gFTxvLg78AZ2J9UdzY7PsBahkO5AMegorzMhBRDptNciQFGT3V2c5kR6kA76Hj7sCTk25LrE6jXqd8AVlyJ-OT3AI72107PhxtjI90wsbD6vlnhU9vBXuTUUQ3rdMGsfg/s3888/img_3321.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijh47UjB02x1gFTxvLg78AZ2J9UdzY7PsBahkO5AMegorzMhBRDptNciQFGT3V2c5kR6kA76Hj7sCTk25LrE6jXqd8AVlyJ-OT3AI72107PhxtjI90wsbD6vlnhU9vBXuTUUQ3rdMGsfg/w400-h400/img_3321.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>"What is it William?"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"I don't know but we may in a moment. Start backing up."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6RbggCOULBw40OC_g2ve4hJOSPka5tsx0o5qYHxKSFyxGd45YW6OWBbSQMS_arWavw_ShYiqgWFPL3j9twZ1hR62P2k_92nsah2gcx61HneJnzZbLn-HMitqpnG0eb0_DBRns_GHo12E/s3888/img_3322.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6RbggCOULBw40OC_g2ve4hJOSPka5tsx0o5qYHxKSFyxGd45YW6OWBbSQMS_arWavw_ShYiqgWFPL3j9twZ1hR62P2k_92nsah2gcx61HneJnzZbLn-HMitqpnG0eb0_DBRns_GHo12E/w400-h400/img_3322.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"What the deuce are those abominable --- impossible --- things?"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Creatures from hell surely, Mary."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"What could be worse?"</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3TIMCMlV11eXMha0MuxI-kDqae1Bb10f5NVK12JmFvemRDhjwEHCROpfLZyGmPhW60ww3JS9tyiXhxDGLkfZVX4B4ZfXQuWJY8DS3-5_Zg2iYGrUcXf3ozQf_pm5j6iNE-v80jioR9gE/s3888/img_3323.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3TIMCMlV11eXMha0MuxI-kDqae1Bb10f5NVK12JmFvemRDhjwEHCROpfLZyGmPhW60ww3JS9tyiXhxDGLkfZVX4B4ZfXQuWJY8DS3-5_Zg2iYGrUcXf3ozQf_pm5j6iNE-v80jioR9gE/w400-h400/img_3323.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"You had to ask! That my dear is the mythological Minotaur of Greek mythology."</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhudBoDemURdUta9v8sG4Bkholkl3NGCS9S9rB9MPODqxZg6uwhH8ATBW4CQxanEezbBAaoB-_zQhVSEZdy5Nkawq8qxxIcuXyUkwheiVMnFEW_YRhg8iStqN7JmgnBI5MBotegvMg9JXo/s3888/img_3325.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhudBoDemURdUta9v8sG4Bkholkl3NGCS9S9rB9MPODqxZg6uwhH8ATBW4CQxanEezbBAaoB-_zQhVSEZdy5Nkawq8qxxIcuXyUkwheiVMnFEW_YRhg8iStqN7JmgnBI5MBotegvMg9JXo/w400-h400/img_3325.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>"Mary, on my mark fire two rounds into each of those undead skeletons. I'll put four into the beasty. Then run back to the horses and gallop to the ship."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"What are you waiting for?!"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Ready, aim, <b>FIRE!</b>"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>CLOSING REMARKS</b></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Chuck The Lucky expertly painted the mythological creatures about to torment the Pettygrees further.</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Most terrain items are decorative pieces sometimes useful in aquariums. All have been purchased from pet stores.</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Thank you very much for looking in. Comments welcome below, if you please.</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">---------- ---------- ---------- ----------</span></div></div></span></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-79836028500357341212021-04-14T12:15:00.010-05:002021-04-21T17:49:38.494-05:002021 Season of Easter<p><br /></p><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: medium;">THOUGHTS DURING 2021's SEASON OF EASTER</span></b></div></b><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">When Did Easter Begin? </span></b></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sunday April 4, 2021</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The day commemorating Jesus rising from death under his own power and authority. </span>This prodigious event validated that we too can have life after death. </div></span></div><div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: medium;">When Does Easter End?</span></b></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pentecost Sunday May 23, 2021</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The day commemorating the descent by The Holy Spirit upon the Apostles of Jesus and other followers. This supernatural action energized/fueled Christian followers and gave them courage for the past 2,000 years to spread/explain the Good News Jesus proclaimed. What other religious tradition has lasted this long? None. This is strong validation to consider.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">See Acts 2:1-31 in the Bible for more.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Reading List</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj78i964tiwzpI0jDaGsO2BEqvjpESUXBGwFMEs2ZdId-lKRPUIcxfsJ1sBLbAB_A8LmQ1x4klzRbtsOXkgmEkHh34Vwp-KidRpztiuDAeX-FhrHwR6qIsk7tht1otOm5YzKAfLn751jI/s2048/img_3168b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj78i964tiwzpI0jDaGsO2BEqvjpESUXBGwFMEs2ZdId-lKRPUIcxfsJ1sBLbAB_A8LmQ1x4klzRbtsOXkgmEkHh34Vwp-KidRpztiuDAeX-FhrHwR6qIsk7tht1otOm5YzKAfLn751jI/w400-h400/img_3168b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The Navarre Bible presents The New Testament almost book by book. I bought copies at a Catholic book store in the 1990s. This one is solely The Gospel of Saint Matthew.</div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Navarre presents verses in English and Latin followed by commentaries. The latter offer interesting historical details, explanations and theological principles.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">********** ********** **********</span></div><span><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiFw8k_FKvkuKjNW7doUgI2gFf1IyRPXcPxO_umBM-aWjAFdcxWHB8O-AVJ1pwHlXNHDnV1q08pVE6ivJAbcJfX3UqfRdybuK-RjQt7ZR0nAbzwxf_tAAQLyZr74yCBY_yRNepbV1Pbu0/s2048/img_3167b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiFw8k_FKvkuKjNW7doUgI2gFf1IyRPXcPxO_umBM-aWjAFdcxWHB8O-AVJ1pwHlXNHDnV1q08pVE6ivJAbcJfX3UqfRdybuK-RjQt7ZR0nAbzwxf_tAAQLyZr74yCBY_yRNepbV1Pbu0/w400-h400/img_3167b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">2021 has been announced as the year to reflect upon St. Joseph. Miravalle's reflections offer logical, interesting and contemplative thoughts about the fatherly guardian of Jesus and husband of mother Mary and how his life can inspire today's fathers and husbands.</div></span><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;">********** ********** **********</div><br style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiklyVAyA78unsq04ewX6LQ6YMfeadxQcWXXI6SjUtygsEyy-T_iAKwhQ-cqkQQpvttfNexJqgKAAjR4s6Viv2OCR70CrT0NnXMNtf7LroU6CfC7XgYK2gSi91egKVsA-CYyDhVFa3myx4/s1600/img_2092.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiklyVAyA78unsq04ewX6LQ6YMfeadxQcWXXI6SjUtygsEyy-T_iAKwhQ-cqkQQpvttfNexJqgKAAjR4s6Viv2OCR70CrT0NnXMNtf7LroU6CfC7XgYK2gSi91egKVsA-CYyDhVFa3myx4/s400/img_2092.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">The illumination of conscience.... </div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Is a progress report lasting about fifteen minutes wherein everyone at the same time will understand and profoundly feel/know the status of their own souls based on each person's entire lifetime. This is not a near death experience; NDE. </div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Christine Watkins presents compelling explanations and stories from numerous ordinary folks, mystics and visionaries into recent times.<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> <span>I know one person in her book and believe him.</span></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This illumination of conscience is a tremendous gift from God. Ahead of time to get our attention sooner rather than later regarding our eternal destiny and what each of us can do about it. Some believe this experience is imminent. <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Buy the book today.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">See:</div></div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Warning-Testimonies-Prophecies-Illumination-Conscience/dp/1947701096" style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">https://www.amazon.com/Warning-Testimonies-Prophecies-Illumination-Conscience/dp/1947701096</a><br style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;" /><br style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;" /><br style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;" /><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">CLOSING REMARKS</span></b><br style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;" /><br style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;" /><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">You might be Agnostic, Athiest, Christian, Jewish or belong to one of several thousand belief systems. Possibly you might be "turned off" due to grievances or by being too busy. You might think this is bunk. The world has been telling us this for years. I get it. I'm sympathetic.</span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Here's the thing, I would not present the above for your consideration unless I thought it had value and merit. The late Charles Krauthammer said, "I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking."</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">The sentiment, "Do Not Be Afraid" appears in the Bible about 365 times. So... ask "The Holy Spirit" for guidance even if you think asking is nonsense. Help will come. Be open.</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">It is time.</span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>********** ********** **********</b></span></div></span></div></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-69513812793036691732021-01-11T22:19:00.005-06:002021-01-15T18:32:31.982-06:00Blastoffjorden Act 1 --- Scene 1<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">A GENERAL PETTYGREE BATTLESTORY</span></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgDflnz6bmfazKpK-zrnUMpb4uF1-QJTQpboWN1tSbXLBHWF5AU7aRQr_Xu0QpIT0eNTVadrrQ3lBHTO3W0l71MzNgxut3EzIDP6_H0PcHxRamuoAbBTeYhjFPJJqmJq6_Fbc-qvwiLuA/s2048/img_2931c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgDflnz6bmfazKpK-zrnUMpb4uF1-QJTQpboWN1tSbXLBHWF5AU7aRQr_Xu0QpIT0eNTVadrrQ3lBHTO3W0l71MzNgxut3EzIDP6_H0PcHxRamuoAbBTeYhjFPJJqmJq6_Fbc-qvwiLuA/w400-h266/img_2931c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">We are now far removed in time and distance from the imagineered Norwegian village of Blastoffheim behind me. Its quiet and picturesque fjord to my left has been here for millennia. At times it has been buried in deep ice, sailed by Viking long ships and in the modern era brimmed with merchantmen and fishing trawlers going about the peaceful business of commerce and feeding families. For the next two days though, a new and unwelcome change will occur affecting lives and circumstances for many when The Second World War arrived here on this....</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Date: August 13, 1943</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Location: Blastoffjorden, Norway {Imagineered}<br />Weather: 88° Fahrenheit, westerly light winds, calm sea <br />Situation: Arrival of Argonaut</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on photos to enlarge them<br /></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">ACT 1 --- SCENE 1</span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">OPERATION NORDHIMMEL</span></b></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">THE ARGONAUT</span></b></div></span></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3bvyMNf0NIKIcEY8vr6rnyAntXSKOAIp6KdUwdnRQYJHTmJkIDHnlJKC3f4aTezP9pkPCUIS6XtLQZjSFcrZpJfA5WF_My1KLCAnbODQRCBLNoS1EwB0ait7D0-TWWXd5Zq-Uyj-5EPE3/s2048/img_2757c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3bvyMNf0NIKIcEY8vr6rnyAntXSKOAIp6KdUwdnRQYJHTmJkIDHnlJKC3f4aTezP9pkPCUIS6XtLQZjSFcrZpJfA5WF_My1KLCAnbODQRCBLNoS1EwB0ait7D0-TWWXd5Zq-Uyj-5EPE3/w400-h266/img_2757c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">German Merchant ship Argonaut</div><div style="text-align: center;">Entering the eastern end of Blastoffjorden, Norway</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjNfIPP04zodbfrGhIVpi2nHYD9L0GaeSsbGoXMb3s0CFZTVawFGUc-VVpwcaJtfMmOa18i8tI7Y4Z0KlssgLAb4P4Y7onpx8uAaIon18omt7HnQIM65bu1wL0V35zxoL5UWWdiYhQO_c0/s2048/img_2766c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjNfIPP04zodbfrGhIVpi2nHYD9L0GaeSsbGoXMb3s0CFZTVawFGUc-VVpwcaJtfMmOa18i8tI7Y4Z0KlssgLAb4P4Y7onpx8uAaIon18omt7HnQIM65bu1wL0V35zxoL5UWWdiYhQO_c0/w400-h266/img_2766c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Guided in by a pilot boat.</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCE6OJiKaYL-cSUwXpa-q4KC3VJkyvjom2vPmQ4Pg7EGXoewCO8AOMv0T6W3jHTN2RlIXISYLelC4bL-ctidx0TrcBWpK0A0b8aWxO-RMRIEWNgq8oEMT_HXfAui4uiKy_VurZGYrXl0C/s2048/img_2758c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCE6OJiKaYL-cSUwXpa-q4KC3VJkyvjom2vPmQ4Pg7EGXoewCO8AOMv0T6W3jHTN2RlIXISYLelC4bL-ctidx0TrcBWpK0A0b8aWxO-RMRIEWNgq8oEMT_HXfAui4uiKy_VurZGYrXl0C/w400-h266/img_2758c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Kapitäin Driessen, the pilot boat has taken us as far into Blasttoffjorden as possible. There is a whitish shoal close to starboard of the dock. It was not on our navigation chart."</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Josef, I've seen it. We'll head in by the bow docking on our port side clearing the shoal." </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAQ5CVWQYd8x1SLEVxfAKmWF3w-eBfjsuZ0CEItYeYufyosMNAkyk8wT2WyCXGI_hepUTURDajduUHfGSKl_m8NY_CQE4RDrBiCVjSwB1dpvVTgY8O63XN3E9kaVPlmaVbOq9u-Dyz8-7o/s2048/img_2759c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAQ5CVWQYd8x1SLEVxfAKmWF3w-eBfjsuZ0CEItYeYufyosMNAkyk8wT2WyCXGI_hepUTURDajduUHfGSKl_m8NY_CQE4RDrBiCVjSwB1dpvVTgY8O63XN3E9kaVPlmaVbOq9u-Dyz8-7o/w400-h268/img_2759c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Kurt, I don't think this place will be good to us."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Well Tiny, it is flanked by mountains. Allied pilots will have trouble finding us way up here plus avoiding our numerous flak batteries ashore. Besides if we sink, land is close by, eh? We merely jump off, swim a bit and sit out the war fishing." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"<span style="font-size: medium;">Whatever you say, Kurt."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz_-ztU0dKV45bSu1fGjxwUCfzeGOkmnDr4ed-Z2meyMcl4IRpESirmzCITh-9nWylhuCmQO1PQUxUuXXQmp7kgDsGTCq71DZQrWiMOeEvEzadvhyphenhyphen7u0HAnFlwRB0pTRLCbaZwHVMzB1Am/s2048/img_2760c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz_-ztU0dKV45bSu1fGjxwUCfzeGOkmnDr4ed-Z2meyMcl4IRpESirmzCITh-9nWylhuCmQO1PQUxUuXXQmp7kgDsGTCq71DZQrWiMOeEvEzadvhyphenhyphen7u0HAnFlwRB0pTRLCbaZwHVMzB1Am/w400-h266/img_2760c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Detachment Nordhimmel arriving in Blastoffheim.</div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJrUmgEOFBSMh5AkP_TArZD_s40SCTVbpdAaUFcRZoslil5s2BOWmdvQLogBU94-vtFL0Er1p_B1i8NaUbgKBGX-Uejh0RanLXwzZN72HN0V0JaosXN_1U-mLfCWzj6sFk8itKJi9_Pyv3/s2048/img_2761c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJrUmgEOFBSMh5AkP_TArZD_s40SCTVbpdAaUFcRZoslil5s2BOWmdvQLogBU94-vtFL0Er1p_B1i8NaUbgKBGX-Uejh0RanLXwzZN72HN0V0JaosXN_1U-mLfCWzj6sFk8itKJi9_Pyv3/w400-h266/img_2761c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Just in time Colonel von Schill. Here comes Argonaut. She made good time. Encouraging."</div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"We must demand that the crew unloads quickly so we can retrieve our unique supplies and depart. We're highly vulnerable if allied aircraft arrive from Scotland or the sea and...."</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdO8ddSXqdsZXLJbeMgcvlC_meMtx0B1oe-MxXd-p2m29XxiE-P5fjDNoeRpHLzljnr4L_GWRCwtk3wGYaVUUvvDuLMd2ZSgh8oho0mSr7EpvD1zo6vxzBYIFyu4sxrV686KJxZHBHEjqG/s2048/img_2762c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdO8ddSXqdsZXLJbeMgcvlC_meMtx0B1oe-MxXd-p2m29XxiE-P5fjDNoeRpHLzljnr4L_GWRCwtk3wGYaVUUvvDuLMd2ZSgh8oho0mSr7EpvD1zo6vxzBYIFyu4sxrV686KJxZHBHEjqG/w400-h266/img_2762c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"I wish we had more than this lone ancient armoured car and its machine gun to protect the ship. All the best equipment has been going to the Eastern Front."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoHMwgg0ZXVyZdokA2S25hAfNqPEVGs2mcW1njBqy0EWF__mT-Jmb8sobNw1n7n_0c6Zg_QC3EM7-uvRdlEm4wIyJBMGjLZs-qiKc9e_d9fq9qMcWcE2wEsC4PnCQGrp7SfTEWOHMOzRjM/s3888/img_2769.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoHMwgg0ZXVyZdokA2S25hAfNqPEVGs2mcW1njBqy0EWF__mT-Jmb8sobNw1n7n_0c6Zg_QC3EM7-uvRdlEm4wIyJBMGjLZs-qiKc9e_d9fq9qMcWcE2wEsC4PnCQGrp7SfTEWOHMOzRjM/w400-h400/img_2769.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Argonaut tieing up.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0neNTDxwd-yzSK9wkX6QKFPDIBcCbx8DUZbsn92_pmSMpQYPjtD3aDpRk9Px53FykN0yeHLuiXZbUQcH3xC8nLP4CzEUQrNMZWEAZ_OCSJQh2pn0vmfeowaA0bH6jzvaPHqkp25-VFDzm/s2048/img_2768c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0neNTDxwd-yzSK9wkX6QKFPDIBcCbx8DUZbsn92_pmSMpQYPjtD3aDpRk9Px53FykN0yeHLuiXZbUQcH3xC8nLP4CzEUQrNMZWEAZ_OCSJQh2pn0vmfeowaA0bH6jzvaPHqkp25-VFDzm/w400-h266/img_2768c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">"Take the slack out of the line."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1wTqc5UxFGIoDh404ydp8eJuTWgRmQ_hvvLNGs4eCcAU0RpsYSiLz6RQtEJt1xc86Tfu8c1wjXCQKZIY20p8eKvjXvCqemE8r_qKZM8PJ-HgjeZ8-o9vy8LjiuOk2ujv33SdmOQEc_XVj/s2048/img_2771c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1wTqc5UxFGIoDh404ydp8eJuTWgRmQ_hvvLNGs4eCcAU0RpsYSiLz6RQtEJt1xc86Tfu8c1wjXCQKZIY20p8eKvjXvCqemE8r_qKZM8PJ-HgjeZ8-o9vy8LjiuOk2ujv33SdmOQEc_XVj/w400-h266/img_2771c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">"Hold the line. --- Avast!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO_M3PJIGVCEbMdrAxpHYXkcluK_ZnzN7ZxG5RdHX9CNI2e7ddhAwb9zFPdFFjO6VtCM12ohelv4zVPEC2JlKnqb79T4yRi9jgKP-qzGf5Mt8hn7gyEfHR4HCFatCOrPDVewNXVlRVqwld/s3888/img_2773.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO_M3PJIGVCEbMdrAxpHYXkcluK_ZnzN7ZxG5RdHX9CNI2e7ddhAwb9zFPdFFjO6VtCM12ohelv4zVPEC2JlKnqb79T4yRi9jgKP-qzGf5Mt8hn7gyEfHR4HCFatCOrPDVewNXVlRVqwld/w400-h400/img_2773.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Where is Colonel von Schill?"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"He's aboard the freighter telling the captain a thing or two."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-oKzUx_7qpTKu1dpXdRgauy3blBOOergUiaH7PgaNkGqOJInjftNZVx29H7Pzf8-3kpZhYMa1yRN3hHwMODIQqpaAWW1pwMqRQK6pmEhKvOIhgX2j_KbXATN1qxlRah9wDbzXXCAboZJM/s2048/img_2772c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-oKzUx_7qpTKu1dpXdRgauy3blBOOergUiaH7PgaNkGqOJInjftNZVx29H7Pzf8-3kpZhYMa1yRN3hHwMODIQqpaAWW1pwMqRQK6pmEhKvOIhgX2j_KbXATN1qxlRah9wDbzXXCAboZJM/w400-h266/img_2772c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Welcome to Blastoffheim "Kapitäin Driessen. A fast passage?"</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Ja. No Allied warships or aircraft found us due to thick cloud cover and rain most of the way from Kiel. Now that the weather is clearing, Allied reconnaissance planes will unfortunately have good visibility for the next few days."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"How soon then can my cargo be offloaded?"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"We'll start unloading within the hour finishing tomorrow. Afterwards you can be on your way and we can be at sea again in the evening. Furthermore...."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Kapitäin, there is commotion on the starboard side."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIz4d3fk9JobyfO7TXZI3Jv-31BSPYORvRR3b9GgJVysGU105O9Ya0PnzWz2RP5czFZ2CU7uPk8bgbZRpWA8MUFI3aGNVtushsJEMpU-w-yJf8UzAKZaULZFvrVgPAhzPrdyf0pF3aAb6W/s2048/img_2777c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIz4d3fk9JobyfO7TXZI3Jv-31BSPYORvRR3b9GgJVysGU105O9Ya0PnzWz2RP5czFZ2CU7uPk8bgbZRpWA8MUFI3aGNVtushsJEMpU-w-yJf8UzAKZaULZFvrVgPAhzPrdyf0pF3aAb6W/w400-h268/img_2777c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Alarm! --- Alarm!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUcGtgTHZ0qmxKpH_9NyWevgnByttzPCXX-jn8_nImbGBERxjZkhqL8NHylO7vCbTzveRubY9ZrH1uWFtwYSsEFe_U8FW7Y8ENELh7-h9v00Zx00j3aVE-8j5Tp52VNiUDrcp5Xt4fe_2P/s2048/img_2774c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUcGtgTHZ0qmxKpH_9NyWevgnByttzPCXX-jn8_nImbGBERxjZkhqL8NHylO7vCbTzveRubY9ZrH1uWFtwYSsEFe_U8FW7Y8ENELh7-h9v00Zx00j3aVE-8j5Tp52VNiUDrcp5Xt4fe_2P/w400-h266/img_2774c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Allied reconnaissance floatplane at two o'clock above the clouds."</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">Scroll Down To Act 1 Scene 2 Next</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">Or</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">To Older Posts Below at this time</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">---------- ---------- ----------</span></div></div></div></div></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-77236429360205953992021-01-11T22:17:00.005-06:002021-01-15T18:33:19.561-06:00Blastoffjorden: Act 1 --- Scene 2<br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Date: August 14, 1943, 0600 hours<br />Location: Blastoffjorden, Norway {Imagineered}<br />Weather: 83° Fahrenheit, westerly wind rising, choppy sea <br />Situation: Torpedo Squadron #2's Mission</span><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">ACT 1 --- SCENE 2</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>OPERATION LEADER</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">TORPEDO SQUADRON #2</span></b></div><div><b style="font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4MdmSsG3Dxs0VuQMHEbMnmx6Jk6h5RBQUatSHt_ZeQZBUsIox2Ugr1VbKNjxhB-jATCRINu-1etfrjIWiuqFZD4YUxjAP1jOcKWRX4W7qXXsQ8BZIABatu0kFQD_aBcRsSC6zto-MeyZs/s2048/img_2814c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4MdmSsG3Dxs0VuQMHEbMnmx6Jk6h5RBQUatSHt_ZeQZBUsIox2Ugr1VbKNjxhB-jATCRINu-1etfrjIWiuqFZD4YUxjAP1jOcKWRX4W7qXXsQ8BZIABatu0kFQD_aBcRsSC6zto-MeyZs/w400-h266/img_2814c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">USN Aircraft Carrier Ranger sailing with the British Home Fleet off northern Norway. Their mission: Disrupt German merchant traffic sailing along the coast and/or within fjords. Ranger's deck is cleared waiting for the return of Torpedo Squadron #2's Devastator Torpedo planes, Dive Bomber Squadron #3's Dauntlesses and Wildcat fighter escorts now en-route to Blastoffjorden.</div></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdmIYkzFrdgOzu4gr2AUeB_zepZuCWvsDliL5WAizwX_M2MOdQCPNGHPjjoQSmW4Wz9xatwsF7DTW34iHztgasxMwKe-yRgXLSFlBFkohn-EtOgIUiH1cb9BThqtiYpyj-Kw6fcFwZjmNu/s2048/img_2815c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdmIYkzFrdgOzu4gr2AUeB_zepZuCWvsDliL5WAizwX_M2MOdQCPNGHPjjoQSmW4Wz9xatwsF7DTW34iHztgasxMwKe-yRgXLSFlBFkohn-EtOgIUiH1cb9BThqtiYpyj-Kw6fcFwZjmNu/w400-h268/img_2815c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Four Douglas TBD-1 Devastator Torpedo Bombers</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Chafee to Torpedo 2. Climb to 4,000 feet to clear the low mountain range ahead. Blastoffjorden will come into view when we are over the summit."</div></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"But Skipper, I was going to throw out a fishing line if we flew any closer to the deck."</span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Hey Nagel, you're from Nevada. There aren't any fish in the desert. Besides, you don't know how to fish."</span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Ever heard of Lake Mead Simcoe?"</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"This is Chafee. Save the fishing chatter for Scapa Flow when we get back. Meanwhile, avoid treetops and keep looking for German ships and aircraft." </span></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoxxtn2aII4dPWwnkmqOL6guh_tpKBnHyHYnxObnfn0mO_40J2a14vNJY5fkxPPHhReg3PNvPQsmyrt9xeR3W9XLLiFVJNmPNknl1Hb3uTfhwP2IkvRX6XpRD6hHan5GmZpDpLOi8RjULQ/s2048/img_2816c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoxxtn2aII4dPWwnkmqOL6guh_tpKBnHyHYnxObnfn0mO_40J2a14vNJY5fkxPPHhReg3PNvPQsmyrt9xeR3W9XLLiFVJNmPNknl1Hb3uTfhwP2IkvRX6XpRD6hHan5GmZpDpLOi8RjULQ/w400-h266/img_2816c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Buckley to Chafee."</span><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Go ahead Buck."</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Where's our Wildcat fighter escort?</span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"The cats launched after us. They should catch up pretty soon with their faster speed."</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Hope so Skipper. Harrison, my rear gunner, doesn't see them behind us yet." </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAAWLWEbKl3d90YhwNsIvmV4uqWh4rW4Hw2qVShkMde7mnqRhA4S4n5wn8MNulZoGA3MgW_ah313Qlk8cX-3CffDzm6CPiVn275UQrX6l4-Zwc0qsGgFJkrQEqXBwX6Cy-M7kBmeIHRArm/s2048/img_2821c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAAWLWEbKl3d90YhwNsIvmV4uqWh4rW4Hw2qVShkMde7mnqRhA4S4n5wn8MNulZoGA3MgW_ah313Qlk8cX-3CffDzm6CPiVn275UQrX6l4-Zwc0qsGgFJkrQEqXBwX6Cy-M7kBmeIHRArm/w400-h266/img_2821c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">As Torpedo 2 passed over the mountain barrier, the commander said, "Chafee to Torpedo 2. Welcome to Blastoffjorden boys. Enemy freighter in sight. Let's go down to pay our respects."</div></span><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Hey Nagel. See if you can snag this one."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrhAaOKzb9R4p9Kzs6WW4UdOYClBENviUEuKK9ZLhZR90HhNIZejJUnfSbDafUGab5CI2EUGcGB5h5KyNXjP2N8Bsh7v_AYICXXeleH1O0reWkTRsBM7BlYa5-yUJf_9QLNjdoWZJQ7r3j/s2048/img_2823c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrhAaOKzb9R4p9Kzs6WW4UdOYClBENviUEuKK9ZLhZR90HhNIZejJUnfSbDafUGab5CI2EUGcGB5h5KyNXjP2N8Bsh7v_AYICXXeleH1O0reWkTRsBM7BlYa5-yUJf_9QLNjdoWZJQ7r3j/w400-h266/img_2823c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"This is Buck. Two bogeys at five o'clock. We're spotted."</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtieb579_c06AOJJJRGR3rwIxfM4akYhovahHcDUdnmgL_vZrTWhrFpy6QS3d72IUzDxCCzeJ9SPKrjQ5KsCJInSmdqWmiR9_JPegQZoMPCW6QsWIFN_S3v50TKfx4ts65e7Jx0Wz84K31/s2048/img_2824c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtieb579_c06AOJJJRGR3rwIxfM4akYhovahHcDUdnmgL_vZrTWhrFpy6QS3d72IUzDxCCzeJ9SPKrjQ5KsCJInSmdqWmiR9_JPegQZoMPCW6QsWIFN_S3v50TKfx4ts65e7Jx0Wz84K31/w400-h266/img_2824c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Americanische torpedo bombers at 2 o'clock. Follow me Gunther. Stay off my right wing and do what I do. Keep an eye out for enemy fighters too."</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Ja Herr Leutnant Zeiss."</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHbGV4jCqHHtVqVy-_XtTj-H_xIIzSXL4ELmHzvCIOEED4aTtCDiebg-tRDYZYcxI35U5JwD6s2dtvuvipJxwYGMYz_FmNaciSVvUX3V7bJgcmmApoSHqxjmGfnPaOUYcNftr3G1VKv5lK/s2048/img_2825c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHbGV4jCqHHtVqVy-_XtTj-H_xIIzSXL4ELmHzvCIOEED4aTtCDiebg-tRDYZYcxI35U5JwD6s2dtvuvipJxwYGMYz_FmNaciSVvUX3V7bJgcmmApoSHqxjmGfnPaOUYcNftr3G1VKv5lK/w400-h266/img_2825c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">German merchant ship Wilhelmina</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Alarm! Steer to port. Schnell! Those are torpedo planes. Man the machine gun."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIVZmVMi1p3t25ss5G6-VNNEQXpryZ-VxkqVWRgR7fZI79w3O2GeRG-QpmDKyHbkE00o8MIYx7zQPKBu3wkkuOh7pkJsGIb0Kxv6rxJ3HVwvqS4pm3vLA25l55uQ9TmbHQ-sGXYHoQY5fq/s2048/img_2826c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIVZmVMi1p3t25ss5G6-VNNEQXpryZ-VxkqVWRgR7fZI79w3O2GeRG-QpmDKyHbkE00o8MIYx7zQPKBu3wkkuOh7pkJsGIb0Kxv6rxJ3HVwvqS4pm3vLA25l55uQ9TmbHQ-sGXYHoQY5fq/w400-h266/img_2826c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"We are as good as sunk </span><span>Kapitäin</span><span> if the Luftwaffe does not arrive in time. Our puny machine gun won't do much!"</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The four Devastators soon dropped to the deck.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2a7CC9tH2tMFJnt31N9OQbLR8fg2P22u_RbiNtViHl1eSeKSZiGkFJeSJDRylAk6melJH5coheucApiu0kF9vtPhfLTG4g8E3qU7fSINZyjG3EyJuTmD1Vd8htAQ4D9IKlIql62XUQPB7/s2048/img_2827c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2a7CC9tH2tMFJnt31N9OQbLR8fg2P22u_RbiNtViHl1eSeKSZiGkFJeSJDRylAk6melJH5coheucApiu0kF9vtPhfLTG4g8E3qU7fSINZyjG3EyJuTmD1Vd8htAQ4D9IKlIql62XUQPB7/w400-h266/img_2827c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"All four planes are headed right for us and have launched torpedoes. Mein Gott!"</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjczL2oVQDw_XSB_6Zj-sQJAUpMzDaWdMenelhbQU9QM3bPBJwJvImgH_P5aN_HWss7X4uyOpnGAqb4aeRAU0y0LjJGk8iyVkiPJmgASYgAiOLNgnvfhBMhPenvb2LnNQQ97uYx09mRewOy/s2048/img_2828c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjczL2oVQDw_XSB_6Zj-sQJAUpMzDaWdMenelhbQU9QM3bPBJwJvImgH_P5aN_HWss7X4uyOpnGAqb4aeRAU0y0LjJGk8iyVkiPJmgASYgAiOLNgnvfhBMhPenvb2LnNQQ97uYx09mRewOy/w400-h266/img_2828c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Well done men. Torpedoes running true. The Kraut fighters are almost on us. Rear gunners fire when ready."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Enemy fire com'n in! Tracers all over the place," shouted Nagel. "Buckley is hit."</div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Hang on Buck!"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrWV0NzPJ3fqXrCZj44PV8RBbsjqkaAJTKt5-xKV49GDkJQvmt-g2MjImgBN78Ni7LtupcXiux-2t81hqCczIlXgiveINAK6QNWvR_DrzumcHYKU2HN9_qqPPCyv6HDWzVEpqCZulHfNb3/s2048/img_2829c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrWV0NzPJ3fqXrCZj44PV8RBbsjqkaAJTKt5-xKV49GDkJQvmt-g2MjImgBN78Ni7LtupcXiux-2t81hqCczIlXgiveINAK6QNWvR_DrzumcHYKU2HN9_qqPPCyv6HDWzVEpqCZulHfNb3/w400-h268/img_2829c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"This is Buckley. My engine is wrecked and we're smok'n."</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Ditch near shore Buck. The resistance is active in these parts. They'll help you."</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"We'll never make it that far Boss. We're going down and will have to swim for it".</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Good luck Buck."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"See you guys after the war. I'll buy beers for all of you in Milwaukee."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"You're on Buck!"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1LpRZMBRpz6o5XVd46xlJd2tFKfibc0quTaPTPmK7LVjbfCp9s9-l_dMBuz9sq3-7Rgsi-o67ULzptaQdqx9Q6p4Jru0rYU72aUZs31HtUMCYFfcKHiuKbTmAMjGPT2kW4CW4r0tpI02Z/s2048/img_2831c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1LpRZMBRpz6o5XVd46xlJd2tFKfibc0quTaPTPmK7LVjbfCp9s9-l_dMBuz9sq3-7Rgsi-o67ULzptaQdqx9Q6p4Jru0rYU72aUZs31HtUMCYFfcKHiuKbTmAMjGPT2kW4CW4r0tpI02Z/w400-h266/img_2831c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgllkBTLjk6_Jim1-JJCSi6FE9QAmVuMLo78T7TgSRDre7Y28zTm5jCMNaNJRRaP_FIzigq9AsO6utEHxA0FaKeZLpgXCuXTJjwcd-a7N8e8gAV77pfcZPXO3jEECP0eU3iflok887vGi6U/s2048/img_2830c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgllkBTLjk6_Jim1-JJCSi6FE9QAmVuMLo78T7TgSRDre7Y28zTm5jCMNaNJRRaP_FIzigq9AsO6utEHxA0FaKeZLpgXCuXTJjwcd-a7N8e8gAV77pfcZPXO3jEECP0eU3iflok887vGi6U/w400-h266/img_2830c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Torpedo 2. Bank to starboard."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOubRj8uRErzy5-hi8iALlRWTfa2KiFSmyxJDFu_P_kxbj00UeVPF_oqYkmi5O_dYy9_whTYOSuvED9UNRmHxRVJ5aBPLuAbCnquipYVaxecB78x6OxlqFRm0vIO7lI3Wb-HJruMBut31v/s2048/img_2832c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOubRj8uRErzy5-hi8iALlRWTfa2KiFSmyxJDFu_P_kxbj00UeVPF_oqYkmi5O_dYy9_whTYOSuvED9UNRmHxRVJ5aBPLuAbCnquipYVaxecB78x6OxlqFRm0vIO7lI3Wb-HJruMBut31v/w400-h268/img_2832c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Keep turning right and head for home. Somehow we're being pursued by only one Me-109 fighter and it overshot us. The other appears to be flying away. Maybe we hit that one."</div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk66mWSbPsSCvZy7dLGclv_UzObD1jPyQfKYMaTkfJ6kt-iyzrzlpWFLVEIyo44H1cR0xTt2ZJz_TscKszMqYPB0Gwr3QiESmXjfnh1vZE9guqT8N3UHdlJDU2l-9ibcCuWRN9bUhq8K3h/s2048/img_2833c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk66mWSbPsSCvZy7dLGclv_UzObD1jPyQfKYMaTkfJ6kt-iyzrzlpWFLVEIyo44H1cR0xTt2ZJz_TscKszMqYPB0Gwr3QiESmXjfnh1vZE9guqT8N3UHdlJDU2l-9ibcCuWRN9bUhq8K3h/w400-h266/img_2833c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">One torpedo barely missed the Wilhelmina's bow because the ship had been veering to port. The other three would strike home.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBZVos8w55DMND_ubgjrZlpdSMniLCgi3gjetKBfwjEcPpFDlLMHfa57PZoLTsaE77ppjq_9USQXM74Ji38mPK2BRuXfi7DPIyCaWPtgjM-LFANkf00z2rtujkwyJ0LHAdvs_zbxQvjQs0/s2048/img_2834c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBZVos8w55DMND_ubgjrZlpdSMniLCgi3gjetKBfwjEcPpFDlLMHfa57PZoLTsaE77ppjq_9USQXM74Ji38mPK2BRuXfi7DPIyCaWPtgjM-LFANkf00z2rtujkwyJ0LHAdvs_zbxQvjQs0/w400-h266/img_2834c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Two fish seemed to only lightly damage the freighter. The third bounced off. She started on fire.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHqEjfp3WvqKtxb8IjrkIcO-42SL0MPJh7ru0ADxfeFRcPaQ6iupcMGMFiXBB0XpjvyIzNtAtgNgh2CB0L0t3ywItneb19Z_hXBvLGc0ciMlgHBO_DcCNCOy_1E5TEbZrrv7IvZt3YmvCA/s2048/img_2835c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHqEjfp3WvqKtxb8IjrkIcO-42SL0MPJh7ru0ADxfeFRcPaQ6iupcMGMFiXBB0XpjvyIzNtAtgNgh2CB0L0t3ywItneb19Z_hXBvLGc0ciMlgHBO_DcCNCOy_1E5TEbZrrv7IvZt3YmvCA/w400-h266/img_2835c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Buckley's Devastator eventually nosed into the fjord and disappeared. He and Harrison abandoned the plane and swam for the closest shore. It was not too far away. </div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFo_MO7mmxDwY7upzCHv2WpAy1lHFKZsNuNHPw5YNVJKWmHeyM1E64UeHytjB-xCuLpM8oRyvRT-6PN-TGP8xBmq7Hv-qMwQQjFuFHNwiNvUNNdTMhuH6HsIWJYzFF_-LAYy0negS-k85u/s2048/img_2836c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFo_MO7mmxDwY7upzCHv2WpAy1lHFKZsNuNHPw5YNVJKWmHeyM1E64UeHytjB-xCuLpM8oRyvRT-6PN-TGP8xBmq7Hv-qMwQQjFuFHNwiNvUNNdTMhuH6HsIWJYzFF_-LAYy0negS-k85u/w400-h268/img_2836c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Leutnant Zeiss in the only 109 still actively engaged silently said, "That rookie Gunther fired wildly jamming his ammunition belts leaving me alone to fight the Americans. Alright then. One to three odds isn't that bad for me. An immelmann and I'll get one."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Zeiss fired but results did not down the Devastator.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Nothing but a few parts flew off and now I'm very low on ammunition. Time to break off. Maybe the American will not make it back to wherever he came from."</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs6ntox1W2TrBCqQ3CgljzBSQCHEBiH2cJv_cMguVRVfHvhQWixzrb2LS2PNTkJQaiOVhPEaG2y6zJZsQRLAJH3cVd3SIOyVcocsDy6CKUHNGHrEWnN-a9ZFacaZXwA3dVQ1SlZeUJTPkB/s2048/img_2837c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs6ntox1W2TrBCqQ3CgljzBSQCHEBiH2cJv_cMguVRVfHvhQWixzrb2LS2PNTkJQaiOVhPEaG2y6zJZsQRLAJH3cVd3SIOyVcocsDy6CKUHNGHrEWnN-a9ZFacaZXwA3dVQ1SlZeUJTPkB/w400-h268/img_2837c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Chafee to flight. That Kraut's abandoned the fight. Fly at your best speed back to Ranger. Keep looking for more bogeys."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Skipper, where the hell did our fighter escorts go? We might not have lost Buckley!"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"I'll see to it Nagel. I know how you feel. Now stay alert."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Skipper. Nagel here. I'm losing speed but think I can make it back to Ranger.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"We'll keep you company. Hang in there."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikV19ZMAiuqUnoNT87mDdwQdSch8gvELiHOX8NhbXxq2eYtwFePjLnA4rmCqiU601uEdl59SPgTmKl5AZkztjVhlZl-e9i834RX3PZojWqgu7jTK_TL8-j6G0QLbo2LI1TLErSOZwlp6bW/s2048/img_2840c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikV19ZMAiuqUnoNT87mDdwQdSch8gvELiHOX8NhbXxq2eYtwFePjLnA4rmCqiU601uEdl59SPgTmKl5AZkztjVhlZl-e9i834RX3PZojWqgu7jTK_TL8-j6G0QLbo2LI1TLErSOZwlp6bW/w400-h266/img_2840c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Elsewhere Zeiss flew to the crippled Wilhelmina. She was dead in the water but apparently not sinking. Time would tell. He looked in the direction of the downed enemy torpedo plane but it was gone. In moments he followed Gunther back to base thinking how best to teach the new pilot to better control his trigger finger. Upon reflection, Gunther probably had it already figured out by now.</div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">Scroll Down To Act 2 Scene 3 Next</span></b></div><div><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">Or</span></b></div><div><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">To Older Posts Below at this time</span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>---------- ---------- ----------</b></span></div></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-40552343843864245382021-01-11T22:15:00.004-06:002021-01-15T18:34:17.096-06:00Blastoffjorden Act 2 --- Scene 3<span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Date: August 14, 1943, 0630 hours<br />Location: Blastoffjorden, Norway {Imagineered}<br />Weather: 81° Fahrenheit, westerly wind rising, choppy sea <br />Situation: Dive Bomber Squadron #3's Mission</span><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>ACT 2 --- SCENE 3</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>DIVE BOMBER SQUADRON #3</b></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitHKSaWhkjiSVj30RksiHi6gLC_tc70TWDt5MtK-5C0ifKFqVL4z8NSiPF_lxgGLR0YCyNYXX7_d5SAgLcLpUA5Nn4bxY1vdRKv-PEq_moTQB4OZC6feYWJTYggAK-ScIFGJS1PNYS4if9/s2048/img_2854c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitHKSaWhkjiSVj30RksiHi6gLC_tc70TWDt5MtK-5C0ifKFqVL4z8NSiPF_lxgGLR0YCyNYXX7_d5SAgLcLpUA5Nn4bxY1vdRKv-PEq_moTQB4OZC6feYWJTYggAK-ScIFGJS1PNYS4if9/w400-h266/img_2854c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Four Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless Dive Bombers escorted</div><div style="text-align: center;">by two Grumman F4F-3A Wildcats flying top cover</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"St. Julian to Bomber 3. Cloud cover dissipating. Blastoffjorden entrance below. Time to find the freighter spotted by our PBY yesterday docked at Blastoffheim. It should eventually be visible at eleven o'clock."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Wildcat 1. Vinny, can you see the port?"</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITXYJcT5Zkz6yhTK_cK83X-2hjYE_f35z07qgcz6QhpWriJ8xPgN6MS2A8ume6q4c4XuHtEzV-D4sBK_chcOqtNNxv3fj57GMvLjWpvYMnHAjUD6mJMEwleMd0lKqwa9XfqeMuVqLA-qW/s2048/img_2857c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITXYJcT5Zkz6yhTK_cK83X-2hjYE_f35z07qgcz6QhpWriJ8xPgN6MS2A8ume6q4c4XuHtEzV-D4sBK_chcOqtNNxv3fj57GMvLjWpvYMnHAjUD6mJMEwleMd0lKqwa9XfqeMuVqLA-qW/w400-h266/img_2857c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Jules, this is Wildcat 1. Negative, but Henry just spotted a pair of bogeys flying on the deck right of center in the fjord. He thinks they're Me-109s. You might be able to see them any second."</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0LHGQTQRkwFJI0Dl2XClj14f5gqVqo26rfFEykNgURndgCuAVpFjisjoOLA1pZTTH5u7Rucle4rsQq3h42D-FQ58tzOI_dny9fC7NeK2KiE_5gM25ScciKMGhYxmbV1tVD6-Nfs8wVS6C/s2048/img_2856c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0LHGQTQRkwFJI0Dl2XClj14f5gqVqo26rfFEykNgURndgCuAVpFjisjoOLA1pZTTH5u7Rucle4rsQq3h42D-FQ58tzOI_dny9fC7NeK2KiE_5gM25ScciKMGhYxmbV1tVD6-Nfs8wVS6C/w400-h266/img_2856c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"This is Utah. I don't see them."</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Russo here. Me neither."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Eddie said, "I caught a glimpse before they passed under the clouds. They're flying away. I doubt they saw us way up here blocked the clouds." <br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnaYxevRjrSnINqaTWL-JPycCrHDUnAOWW7xsZTzvJQc_MP-GxrhchMZAJQtvAY8MDfu_Br5EZ28zWbWfxeAsuDNimZej0zShiGL_3fOVvhhMEEmnXVQIbyktF42yTQvTN1b8KqjaLLUAC/s2048/img_2855c2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnaYxevRjrSnINqaTWL-JPycCrHDUnAOWW7xsZTzvJQc_MP-GxrhchMZAJQtvAY8MDfu_Br5EZ28zWbWfxeAsuDNimZej0zShiGL_3fOVvhhMEEmnXVQIbyktF42yTQvTN1b8KqjaLLUAC/w400-h268/img_2855c2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Our cats will stay with you Jules unless the Krauts come up for you."</div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Affirmative Vinny. There could be other enemy fighters around. Meanwhile, let's find our target at Blastoffheim. St. Julian out."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>BLASTOFFHEIM DOCK</b></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU5R11fdbaScYPtBZ_UnAt_pweVcgPwaJbWZzBC4vJ2E7WV8ur1Ph9Nc8VacXwFZB186RfeDOfCuqgPrecFsOtUv0cfO9Qh-tVLpN17WwImAT5kIJ3KVptwlU4-sz_bZ26wZNfUcNgz6EA/s2048/img_2860c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU5R11fdbaScYPtBZ_UnAt_pweVcgPwaJbWZzBC4vJ2E7WV8ur1Ph9Nc8VacXwFZB186RfeDOfCuqgPrecFsOtUv0cfO9Qh-tVLpN17WwImAT5kIJ3KVptwlU4-sz_bZ26wZNfUcNgz6EA/w400-h268/img_2860c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Argonaut Unloading Cargo</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />"What did you say Tiny?"</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"I asked, did you hear faint explosions down the fjord?"</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Not me. Too much noise with the crane and winch motor. C'mon let's finish."</span><br /><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcz-tlsKkLhyphenhyphentjGF5K1iRtuiWwYSY1ry05dsuE3rVpCzdAnAldG9DjUsxXKWQKKblmKX9l7zynIC5UDx8HjeqD7j5QhaQRiLzIvHotXyiQxe_8sG-xMzIdMRTmYNKflZpXgrtB56vm70jj/s2048/img_2817c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcz-tlsKkLhyphenhyphentjGF5K1iRtuiWwYSY1ry05dsuE3rVpCzdAnAldG9DjUsxXKWQKKblmKX9l7zynIC5UDx8HjeqD7j5QhaQRiLzIvHotXyiQxe_8sG-xMzIdMRTmYNKflZpXgrtB56vm70jj/w400-h266/img_2817c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Forward hold unloaded and ready to secure.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The aft hold was another matter.</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEw_p5vQTzmXRTBDdPqBUMCpUiamirQ-P8Js-pRlp6vFJhnYytAIaYlp4z-VCTmHJQcXYs9XHA-CxqL60c-m6kg6Q0fdPgRVNmn5C_0vmKGbvABdeBqBEmuWV81pvabZ2qOgDJn7MPLq0l/s2048/img_2862c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEw_p5vQTzmXRTBDdPqBUMCpUiamirQ-P8Js-pRlp6vFJhnYytAIaYlp4z-VCTmHJQcXYs9XHA-CxqL60c-m6kg6Q0fdPgRVNmn5C_0vmKGbvABdeBqBEmuWV81pvabZ2qOgDJn7MPLq0l/w400-h266/img_2862c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"What is the problem Uwe?"</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"The winch motor shorted out. Useless. I'm going for the spare now."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"How much time before it is operational again?"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Under two hours, less if things go well, </span><span>Kapitäin</span><span>."</span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Bend it on in half that time. This cargo has to go ashore fast. There is trouble down fjord maybe coming here. Sparks got an SOS from the Wilhelmina. She was torpedoed by allied planes, is afire, foundered and sinking. The crew lowered boats and is rowing ashore."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>BOMBER #3's ARRIVAL</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhnkxNnR1Fhyr26Yao21ljQoR7A-6Zc6mIjK2VSRFFmtlFPSG6SJQlbnXhNoF8Px90aEczcgJOXLR2JPxnKVzizY26D1OxaF9ymwimQGB8EPOQtI63s_yhBap81TF7o7d9x2cKXV4G8e7d/s2048/img_2865c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhnkxNnR1Fhyr26Yao21ljQoR7A-6Zc6mIjK2VSRFFmtlFPSG6SJQlbnXhNoF8Px90aEczcgJOXLR2JPxnKVzizY26D1OxaF9ymwimQGB8EPOQtI63s_yhBap81TF7o7d9x2cKXV4G8e7d/w400-h268/img_2865c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Wildcat 1, Vinny what do you see below?"</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_OY2J-GIURaN4jfAxiPY_mOsgAiM_7ou07hqWPy3QQ6u4H0bxbJJCV8r7FjYyTGJFFblo2RooK3AJLQvapi5qqVGaweHciW5Uyl4wOMdnXGa58lGh_oMoeSk6UdGEyyu6q1_1ne5i-Xm8/s2048/img_2863c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_OY2J-GIURaN4jfAxiPY_mOsgAiM_7ou07hqWPy3QQ6u4H0bxbJJCV8r7FjYyTGJFFblo2RooK3AJLQvapi5qqVGaweHciW5Uyl4wOMdnXGa58lGh_oMoeSk6UdGEyyu6q1_1ne5i-Xm8/w400-h266/img_2863c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Cat 1 here, Jules. A freighter badly on fire."</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTz68VpTF2CUpiQH2Il58yc0_n0Yas2i-WUErY7MDBVtGxuB85DNtqSXjVKFBlY6mquQ80y7MSdBmybDDxd58mDP93oZfkYkiP3qYNw9SmVAax94K9lCGM4gyJTGP_WajS9sxFO02qhutd/s2048/img_2864.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTz68VpTF2CUpiQH2Il58yc0_n0Yas2i-WUErY7MDBVtGxuB85DNtqSXjVKFBlY6mquQ80y7MSdBmybDDxd58mDP93oZfkYkiP3qYNw9SmVAax94K9lCGM4gyJTGP_WajS9sxFO02qhutd/w400-h268/img_2864.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Flames are shooting out, heavy smoke, hung up on rocks and sinking by the stern."</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"That's Torpedo 2's doing. C'mon back up."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Will do. --- Vinny out."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6UOZaLMN6VRFH26AsC8oIR_De67TzaLVm8RfyZGtcjnKKqmif3TOrkeqsvuE8G120nnzBEziTuGNzCVjK6r8m-30XGSKBsoLMXF4L3hlF8LJE6O2HPGBSW4qEnMZqJNCx5sBsqm-PBvN/s3888/img_2866.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6UOZaLMN6VRFH26AsC8oIR_De67TzaLVm8RfyZGtcjnKKqmif3TOrkeqsvuE8G120nnzBEziTuGNzCVjK6r8m-30XGSKBsoLMXF4L3hlF8LJE6O2HPGBSW4qEnMZqJNCx5sBsqm-PBvN/w400-h400/img_2866.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Twenty minutes later Blastoffheim came into view. The freighter reported by the PBY yesterday was still docked. St. Julian, the commander of Bomber 3 radioed first. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"There she is boys. One fat freighter riding high in the water. Bomber 3 form line astern and follow me down. Cat 1, keep watching in case the Luftwaffe shows up again."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Bomber 3. There's a cloud bank coming in from the right. My wingman, Henry, thought he saw a bogey darting in and out of it coming our way. We're already descending to look."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Okay Cat 1. If anything appears, keep 'em away from us."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Roger that Bomber 3. Henry, follow me. Vinny out."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjloIwPtQemZ8mi_Euq7xDgyHh1b8XasRrKrfYdk1pJXlBL0sEpkEjpjt47iwhz2weJXkWrePAF0xJkiM2nK6L2F_MpNAQRty7tGDrY81Xt-h_LecfDd6a9QNStzuxTu9M4RHEY-HgC4Xj5/s2048/img_2867c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjloIwPtQemZ8mi_Euq7xDgyHh1b8XasRrKrfYdk1pJXlBL0sEpkEjpjt47iwhz2weJXkWrePAF0xJkiM2nK6L2F_MpNAQRty7tGDrY81Xt-h_LecfDd6a9QNStzuxTu9M4RHEY-HgC4Xj5/w400-h266/img_2867c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Bomber 3. This is Cat 1 again. Two 109s are headed up toward you. We'll engage."</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Cat 1. Are they the same 109s?" </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Dunno."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Okay Vinny. Good luck. --- St Julian out."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAjvTPJmsOlzJREtnWUOTJW7bfJL2sNzraGhWgnJpsztj7iKylfYg03LixolRyJ56tCUfz-1DFUReelWioBZn_ApBwZaC6cguWQuAyT1j5OZPgq_XhgNo8P_ylLkZp7BjwvF33eLXHBIMj/s2048/img_2868c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAjvTPJmsOlzJREtnWUOTJW7bfJL2sNzraGhWgnJpsztj7iKylfYg03LixolRyJ56tCUfz-1DFUReelWioBZn_ApBwZaC6cguWQuAyT1j5OZPgq_XhgNo8P_ylLkZp7BjwvF33eLXHBIMj/w400-h266/img_2868c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, when Argonaut's crew heard and spotted incoming allied planes, their anti-aircraft guns were manned and loaded. The armoured car ashore also sprang into action.</div></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnLVRWYh7GqpeGPEj-cLytEZTy86lx1CRjyzzDejAgmMMqrjcMX8hc04mDPu7xAUs1JPVUbdy_V9kiywHZFHXiRaMpEn7WHnhDX7dSIqu1Xnjp7w9nTg1oBt_Vw0s_qHSPIWpDBSmr7MwE/s2048/img_2870c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnLVRWYh7GqpeGPEj-cLytEZTy86lx1CRjyzzDejAgmMMqrjcMX8hc04mDPu7xAUs1JPVUbdy_V9kiywHZFHXiRaMpEn7WHnhDX7dSIqu1Xnjp7w9nTg1oBt_Vw0s_qHSPIWpDBSmr7MwE/w266-h400/img_2870c.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The aft gun though not necessarily designed to engage aircraft could propel a shell and shock wave that if close enough, could knock down a plane.</div></span><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHxn4XnDzw_kElGGJcTLsQWe2FJWp3a-Pi4RcCcTG3slCPDvunpnby67u4ASYoAewTax08NX4CAk6UgVV2jUAYreEI5kLdIPDTcz56ha5mgpGiW6guk8jXez4172oUQEIaq_d5V0D-JLKe/s2048/img_2874c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHxn4XnDzw_kElGGJcTLsQWe2FJWp3a-Pi4RcCcTG3slCPDvunpnby67u4ASYoAewTax08NX4CAk6UgVV2jUAYreEI5kLdIPDTcz56ha5mgpGiW6guk8jXez4172oUQEIaq_d5V0D-JLKe/w400-h266/img_2874c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">The armoured car hoped to contribute to the mayhem. Everyone wondered why there were no flak batteries in position.</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifExns6QhbmMp9u3HFBIBQTmPhoqC_5LX0p9pVOw-tuPm_Tqnhy8BHO4BLQyyPo-XbX9gqS5iBsMVSydPjiybwk659FClTTChB-rZvC7ayJMaYp9-KifxXL7o8hoamocSvgw43PxqM1akl/s2048/img_2871c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifExns6QhbmMp9u3HFBIBQTmPhoqC_5LX0p9pVOw-tuPm_Tqnhy8BHO4BLQyyPo-XbX9gqS5iBsMVSydPjiybwk659FClTTChB-rZvC7ayJMaYp9-KifxXL7o8hoamocSvgw43PxqM1akl/w266-h400/img_2871c.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">While the commander of Operation Nordhimmel, Colonel von Schill, prudently retreated from the dock into the safety of the village.<br /></span><div><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">Scroll Down To Act 2 Scene 4 Next</span></b></div><div><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">Or</span></b></div><div><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">To Older Posts Below at this time</span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">---------- ---------- ----------</span></div></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-18382648126787118832021-01-11T22:13:00.004-06:002021-01-15T16:33:04.648-06:00Blastoffjorden Act 2 --- Scene 4<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">ACT 2 --- SCENE 4</b></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>BOMBER 3's ATTACK ON THE ARGONAUT</b></div></span><span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div><span><span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjesp4WzpVJv5_h2gdiG0weoQpkFzyXld-pdhn7wp4NJDS-TqEWZyWIe9XkGXxwA-SPgfFjIwF_1WILHKu2KnkBfHzOpn9slnzdrhwXEcFiRrRBe3IlcIRdNEt0FgPjCKhYwxj9gwQYpLXj/s3888/img_2866.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjesp4WzpVJv5_h2gdiG0weoQpkFzyXld-pdhn7wp4NJDS-TqEWZyWIe9XkGXxwA-SPgfFjIwF_1WILHKu2KnkBfHzOpn9slnzdrhwXEcFiRrRBe3IlcIRdNEt0FgPjCKhYwxj9gwQYpLXj/w400-h400/img_2866.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At the eastern end of Blastoffjorden, Bomber 3 had spotted its docked target. The Dauntless Dive Bombers would soon dive steeply at the enemy freighter dropping 500 lb bombs to sink her. Meanwhile, Wildcat escorts descended to chase away suspected Luftwaffe fighters seen approaching from a cloud bank below to the right.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLt9C45oH8WCWd62vmrmRIUbNBmkWi_I2_pcVwM_bXvfyitoLzDU3ZOOlQpv_z3F9HiKAZKGH9b0Tk2eJOdV1NnmbIlxTrB-MU144erfkD55sI_r6AvGPe_p27kVQIcNndA-DA1yruqjvM/s2048/img_2875c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLt9C45oH8WCWd62vmrmRIUbNBmkWi_I2_pcVwM_bXvfyitoLzDU3ZOOlQpv_z3F9HiKAZKGH9b0Tk2eJOdV1NnmbIlxTrB-MU144erfkD55sI_r6AvGPe_p27kVQIcNndA-DA1yruqjvM/w400-h266/img_2875c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Two Me-109s. You've got good eyes wingman."</div></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Ah, Vinny. Funny they are flying away from Bomber 3 now though."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Probably trying to be clever. Let's head them off. Full throttle Henry."</div></span><span><span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQppwT4b2tPohhb1iiwpoRVRmUycvwE_VnUxWp3qY95DLIVp-lpRNZOcXPtZmFR5SHW2S6G38J4B9Li6Pu4twUWn3HQgT96SqOpYXFkaQkehgdpIlsDzuZtONCP-k8VQgjqeg6cToqXTXG/s2048/img_2885c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQppwT4b2tPohhb1iiwpoRVRmUycvwE_VnUxWp3qY95DLIVp-lpRNZOcXPtZmFR5SHW2S6G38J4B9Li6Pu4twUWn3HQgT96SqOpYXFkaQkehgdpIlsDzuZtONCP-k8VQgjqeg6cToqXTXG/w400-h268/img_2885c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">"Hey, they're heading back up into the cloud cover. We're going to lose them."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib4PQRAyM_bjPIVzQ_llLLULaJ9zml1I2VJBESJLi96wKmoHd-AOwFp250Aeaffhyphenhyphena8kGkOYw-NpaV_xVDk6HTKjgEyd8I1ymJvu_P1fjkDC5Qk7vedgEtS_8omYcHwRTLXvPkDTtkbTTo/s2048/img_2887c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib4PQRAyM_bjPIVzQ_llLLULaJ9zml1I2VJBESJLi96wKmoHd-AOwFp250Aeaffhyphenhyphena8kGkOYw-NpaV_xVDk6HTKjgEyd8I1ymJvu_P1fjkDC5Qk7vedgEtS_8omYcHwRTLXvPkDTtkbTTo/w400-h268/img_2887c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span><span style="font-size: medium;">"Yeah well maybe. Let's go after 'em. Remember we're the cats and they're the mice. Gotta keep them away from St. Julian's Dauntlesses. Punch it Henry!"</span><br /><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrQaQkCW4-U5P07lWAAlSQAorRkwwsVKwT5fhwdtLWe8Ig47-pbzGcoKJG1FLquvmp4WxOM6Qkfp_UKCqi9yI91rpmtLkK-UDZXaULLHYq7zy9EMeRugt7fBsSXr-58W_89WhQvr4yLbFk/s2048/img_2866c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrQaQkCW4-U5P07lWAAlSQAorRkwwsVKwT5fhwdtLWe8Ig47-pbzGcoKJG1FLquvmp4WxOM6Qkfp_UKCqi9yI91rpmtLkK-UDZXaULLHYq7zy9EMeRugt7fBsSXr-58W_89WhQvr4yLbFk/w400-h266/img_2866c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Alright Bomber 3. It's time to make our run. Russo, follow me. I'm banking left. Utah and Eddie, wait to see how we do before committing but get more altitude. If the freighter goes up, bomb the dock area or find another target. There has to be unloaded cargo here needing our attention since the ship is riding so high."</div></span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3lX_W1OBJwNwVH_4RSzmRrKNvGmohdqdLsPgQxamd0g8fFIV6NRM6Oy4PgemT9MSiqdEhNIOK2GxLxEGPXRi2iI638wLRiIgQ1voDEF0OkQdTIs8VeojiYkhNUWMG6twguhIZK-vCuzgU/s2048/img_2888c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3lX_W1OBJwNwVH_4RSzmRrKNvGmohdqdLsPgQxamd0g8fFIV6NRM6Oy4PgemT9MSiqdEhNIOK2GxLxEGPXRi2iI638wLRiIgQ1voDEF0OkQdTIs8VeojiYkhNUWMG6twguhIZK-vCuzgU/w400-h266/img_2888c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"You with me Russo?"</span></span></div><span><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: medium;">"Right behind ya, Jules."</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFPjNyQVgRbMxdZ_OfjHgS3Ai7oiLsoLrPk_HdvIzDF_o0I70qDNoYtvaAHn644zie_95Kr1cmR6CdKv-j4q0on3uu61mXlkTn-4XEMjHsADGYhP5BjOyQuHWcl8Gdld2UmtEHTQHuMDYc/s2048/img_2889c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFPjNyQVgRbMxdZ_OfjHgS3Ai7oiLsoLrPk_HdvIzDF_o0I70qDNoYtvaAHn644zie_95Kr1cmR6CdKv-j4q0on3uu61mXlkTn-4XEMjHsADGYhP5BjOyQuHWcl8Gdld2UmtEHTQHuMDYc/w400-h268/img_2889c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"All lined up and...."</span></span></div><div><span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_RBqjFHPokyq24B0MEoUR9w-iBLeTlKytPlhaWNek9P0RUQrH6zqOMn4jSPt9IL0ugjrx2OIcL9O_KKosob2br9zAO_rIQd_ipnU0W2I8LRWLyT61E-sKQWiTTbQ1y0x50RSZ5Pf_fcS/s2048/img_2893c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_RBqjFHPokyq24B0MEoUR9w-iBLeTlKytPlhaWNek9P0RUQrH6zqOMn4jSPt9IL0ugjrx2OIcL9O_KKosob2br9zAO_rIQd_ipnU0W2I8LRWLyT61E-sKQWiTTbQ1y0x50RSZ5Pf_fcS/w400-h266/img_2893c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Down"</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp4D7gvS6YkdlV-lqcBBZWaKJt-U7BCgk1pe-CAQcusSAxjeKoS-0vd9AADUdtDMIfvWi2W4r3HlrAVrj2SnhaP70tDZGQJNgGPniU9if0LaINjN8FdlxbTfkcYSxr_qE4Zjf3R_Sc6Emx/s2048/img_2891c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp4D7gvS6YkdlV-lqcBBZWaKJt-U7BCgk1pe-CAQcusSAxjeKoS-0vd9AADUdtDMIfvWi2W4r3HlrAVrj2SnhaP70tDZGQJNgGPniU9if0LaINjN8FdlxbTfkcYSxr_qE4Zjf3R_Sc6Emx/w400-h268/img_2891c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"She's putting up a lot of lead!"</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbvodAG2rDE5FGC0SnKpfMaVwVRLj9tqrzDxyi7rypXJ1APVK-h7QWcfR76QsjcEwlZvWmfXJCg__lNJdsGQtm9maFs5H0P9gm-Px4cLHuC4RvC4CORuLfowzW-ngsMFDJUDKw1l0CdnKx/s2048/img_2894c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1367" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbvodAG2rDE5FGC0SnKpfMaVwVRLj9tqrzDxyi7rypXJ1APVK-h7QWcfR76QsjcEwlZvWmfXJCg__lNJdsGQtm9maFs5H0P9gm-Px4cLHuC4RvC4CORuLfowzW-ngsMFDJUDKw1l0CdnKx/w268-h400/img_2894c.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Another second before I drop my egg into the aft hold."</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYZULEEfW2mhcPL_UzyvdNcdgsfZRybwLWGm-Tr8gRF5j35XZIGaSyjmda7hJHRxSVIIe8bTL_yVs3fmvCDOTFg2Wyiew4OX4gzWe1MAleP-s2cw5YzfgBZ0K0XacVUm7liox1OeFXsWhB/s2048/img_2895c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1367" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYZULEEfW2mhcPL_UzyvdNcdgsfZRybwLWGm-Tr8gRF5j35XZIGaSyjmda7hJHRxSVIIe8bTL_yVs3fmvCDOTFg2Wyiew4OX4gzWe1MAleP-s2cw5YzfgBZ0K0XacVUm7liox1OeFXsWhB/w268-h400/img_2895c.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Did I miss?"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQ_vyk49_p7MMRoUzExlo4zBXXfRYlooEg-kuqr8nPlrQeMH9Tw2G9-9JFPGKLyJ1SQY7ylySpxWDodSIYPUpn4J5q_S80W2YlXvbzJrt6NIYkrwIJupeUy3Pd7kI8v71vCLSIJgztvq_/s2048/img_2896c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQ_vyk49_p7MMRoUzExlo4zBXXfRYlooEg-kuqr8nPlrQeMH9Tw2G9-9JFPGKLyJ1SQY7ylySpxWDodSIYPUpn4J5q_S80W2YlXvbzJrt6NIYkrwIJupeUy3Pd7kI8v71vCLSIJgztvq_/w266-h400/img_2896c.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Bull's eye!" </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixCU9AvdJ6S910FEFotF6CG_2jYiYqC9sMAF0Y_FcIieO77MdQjMfOFngi3ajGUfTje5pBF5R5CzqfncQXKlhknUOeQmr4FujopFCqTXmLOzOIctziie4_kq3a0ZPdBPlf8yEs3RAVzC_N/s2048/img_2903c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixCU9AvdJ6S910FEFotF6CG_2jYiYqC9sMAF0Y_FcIieO77MdQjMfOFngi3ajGUfTje5pBF5R5CzqfncQXKlhknUOeQmr4FujopFCqTXmLOzOIctziie4_kq3a0ZPdBPlf8yEs3RAVzC_N/w400-h266/img_2903c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Serve that for breakfast!"</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Russo, it's your turn now. The ship is finished. Take out the dock area." </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Roger that Jules. I'm starting my run."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiUwv_HK4DCXnRqMbhtlptxNJqBv_keUNcREUREZJB8MdvXwYRzAphSTaxOeFWChHat9tQWBRj9Y6ewguX-ZCbx8N_xQgMgqiyN3TbSwrMTM49RlNjktL3Th4pIv0db0mhIuH6RrIhSGQz/s2048/img_2904c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiUwv_HK4DCXnRqMbhtlptxNJqBv_keUNcREUREZJB8MdvXwYRzAphSTaxOeFWChHat9tQWBRj9Y6ewguX-ZCbx8N_xQgMgqiyN3TbSwrMTM49RlNjktL3Th4pIv0db0mhIuH6RrIhSGQz/w266-h400/img_2904c.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">St Julian's wingman easily dove, targeted and dropped his bomb on the cargo near the dock.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>"Hey Boss. Target destroyed. Do I get to paint cargo boxes on my fuselage?"</span><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Sure thing. Now let's find Utah, Eddie and the Cats."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"And get back to Ranger."</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSbge7Gv_L6Ls0ufPviZMVo4Ws_yCcWQBNs248O4dtAu69_AteGl9gpJrp90Sdj2ViPU4VY_KJsrwu9mWSeeeA0EXPBpt0PbUKMMNQGe3pnpaAIgE_TdtzTPYPRnOIZFMStefQuTUt9EH1/s3888/img_2907.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSbge7Gv_L6Ls0ufPviZMVo4Ws_yCcWQBNs248O4dtAu69_AteGl9gpJrp90Sdj2ViPU4VY_KJsrwu9mWSeeeA0EXPBpt0PbUKMMNQGe3pnpaAIgE_TdtzTPYPRnOIZFMStefQuTUt9EH1/w400-h400/img_2907.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Crap. Bogeys at 6 and 7 o'clock outta' nowhere," said Russo's air gunner, Drew."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">Go To Act 2 Scene 5 Next</span></b></div><div><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">Or</span></b></div><div><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">To Older Posts Below at this time</span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">---------- ---------- ----------</span></div></div></div></span>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-19497479944839824332021-01-11T22:11:00.005-06:002021-01-14T00:16:00.996-06:00Blastoffjorden Act 2 --- Scene 5 Conclusion<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">ACT 2 --- SCENE 5</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">BOMBER 3's ESCAPE</span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">STORY CONCLUSION</span></b></div></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKHOSdJufHhN7cAFgwOyOIbm_kF9C9H7zrpn6h8IyAUaA6c2vSkjQ0mkoYDRcIbrT6BAzv4p7PUtyQFVMX7Q-2aN5Rtz0cCUTLjIH1HWEviSbCRTJsxamxTOpvObq_ROOg6BgJMD6IBjDw/s2048/img_2907C.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKHOSdJufHhN7cAFgwOyOIbm_kF9C9H7zrpn6h8IyAUaA6c2vSkjQ0mkoYDRcIbrT6BAzv4p7PUtyQFVMX7Q-2aN5Rtz0cCUTLjIH1HWEviSbCRTJsxamxTOpvObq_ROOg6BgJMD6IBjDw/w400-h266/img_2907C.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Drew opened up his two rear-facing 7.62mm Browning flexible-mounted machine guns just before the Focke-Wulf 190As lined up and fired. Each had four wing-mounted 20mm cannons and two 13mm #131 machine guns synchronized to fire safely through each plane's three propeller blades. </span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Russo could not get the dive bomber up to it's maximum 255 mph speed because he was coming out of a dive. Even if he could, the German fighters were 150 mph faster. </span>The dogfight would be terribly uneven. But the Americans had one chance.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZnacCW45251BUDvf9lIvOQ26Pi-OAe_gwIVWqEXYzHDR6f_hvsyh5X8yGK_6_4SDn3327p6ji4xf3ZQ8MbNjy1pIJWnLMuAtoe5GBLdM7ceGMa7dAOagp_Shr5QAypZM6rkzNNEj1olaI/s2048/img_2912c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZnacCW45251BUDvf9lIvOQ26Pi-OAe_gwIVWqEXYzHDR6f_hvsyh5X8yGK_6_4SDn3327p6ji4xf3ZQ8MbNjy1pIJWnLMuAtoe5GBLdM7ceGMa7dAOagp_Shr5QAypZM6rkzNNEj1olaI/w400-h266/img_2912c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Russo steered right as hard as the Dauntless could turn as enemy fire closed in. It worked because the FW's high speed caused them to rocket past out of firing arc.</div></span></div><div> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT6fUhIInOpYV8x_WoH9_yTPpG2wXqxmb_AZBdKV7awTVmzhFVI30pbYSgYtbvUUUSrC2_x9zieN0mIu1JmNVlvmekSAUnEQ4WrYirneBh7gx0NRaOD_Xp4MgiPF1OafGqx-RFeEjlnuWl/s2048/img_2913c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT6fUhIInOpYV8x_WoH9_yTPpG2wXqxmb_AZBdKV7awTVmzhFVI30pbYSgYtbvUUUSrC2_x9zieN0mIu1JmNVlvmekSAUnEQ4WrYirneBh7gx0NRaOD_Xp4MgiPF1OafGqx-RFeEjlnuWl/w400-h268/img_2913c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Keep firing Drew! They're coming around. We're going to fly over the burning ship. The smoke might give us some cover."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVseMaDl8-1Z2U1oDNTy-5PUx6D1YgW1_GmHAX42FVlufa4EgvGTanu_wDnL1PfcVtRupOiWtsfJ2tlMvNgenBwSKTcAFLJXR5Gu4UsWS7DRrDA00PnK1w60BnTrbPGx1GdZPIYs_dCUgt/s2048/img_2914c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVseMaDl8-1Z2U1oDNTy-5PUx6D1YgW1_GmHAX42FVlufa4EgvGTanu_wDnL1PfcVtRupOiWtsfJ2tlMvNgenBwSKTcAFLJXR5Gu4UsWS7DRrDA00PnK1w60BnTrbPGx1GdZPIYs_dCUgt/w400-h266/img_2914c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">However, time ran out as more fire hit the Dauntless. The engine caught fire and the prop stopped rotating. She started falling, mortally wounded.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Drew! Bail out. We're done."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Both men jumped and immediately pulled their chute rip cords. They wondered if they could survive such a low altitude jump over the village of Blastoffheim and adjacent pine woods. Even if they survived, the angry </span><span style="font-size: medium;">German garrison hiding from the bombardment probably would have no trouble finding and capturing them. How angry would they be?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE OTHER TWO DAUNTLESSES</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV3ZQLvYZTaCuTwC8IOu6L4CLRY14FnezKsgzl5cXwivQaJ8-X8bruuzKD9EITmUEQZ_H0WOVI8OHWJWpuj5RcB3TnhhrwdD7dbxUrQfmHQVK5eMddeToyfVF132RoDYIJP31Rqa1LZRXF/s2048/img_2920c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV3ZQLvYZTaCuTwC8IOu6L4CLRY14FnezKsgzl5cXwivQaJ8-X8bruuzKD9EITmUEQZ_H0WOVI8OHWJWpuj5RcB3TnhhrwdD7dbxUrQfmHQVK5eMddeToyfVF132RoDYIJP31Rqa1LZRXF/w400-h266/img_2920c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Utah's and Eddie's Dauntlesses had been ordered to await events high above Blastoffheim. When the Fw-190s arrived and easily shot down Russo, they prudently flew elsewhere. Their chances to knock down even one of the faster and more powerful new Luftwaffe fighters were minimal. There was no point engaging in a near suicidal attack. At the moment they were not being pursued.</div></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnE8qwDb7sTI97hxoOCHQ-8XqlDD0kx1ao6bWnCnVe15z7dJn-9Kwnh8C4yL6pGZu8Xfwb_GIRODEM0Cthh89Qn4Bkqq19GI1HbGgg1zcAl-uUr69Kwapgkl4uz_8FWKjbVRchK-Oft09m/s2048/img_2922c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnE8qwDb7sTI97hxoOCHQ-8XqlDD0kx1ao6bWnCnVe15z7dJn-9Kwnh8C4yL6pGZu8Xfwb_GIRODEM0Cthh89Qn4Bkqq19GI1HbGgg1zcAl-uUr69Kwapgkl4uz_8FWKjbVRchK-Oft09m/w400-h266/img_2922c.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Luck arrived when a small Kriegsmarine destroyer docked in a tributary down the fjord was found. Both agreed to attack. It looked like another sitting duck.</span></div></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhVV8qQAdmmf0-Z1MQWov7kfShYXsHEAqmQpwT4lvzIR6E_BYYYWFk2Px57XKMCItk1k24_urCf6jNqtZFc18JdDGhFb2wRFOilWfR7Hbe7rZk8ntKAFrbtqEOfjsshYkez7w3UUsJz7_E/s2048/img_2924c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhVV8qQAdmmf0-Z1MQWov7kfShYXsHEAqmQpwT4lvzIR6E_BYYYWFk2Px57XKMCItk1k24_urCf6jNqtZFc18JdDGhFb2wRFOilWfR7Hbe7rZk8ntKAFrbtqEOfjsshYkez7w3UUsJz7_E/w400-h266/img_2924c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">As Utah dived, Eddie followed saying, "Good luck!"</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibQGj5wyS2a1WVD-AaavGWBtppBqOsGfVLcmlUFB0mI1_FBN2bIlc9AfyR2Vkh9yxNIG7d9F93sorDWm8XzEtbWkLtQmj3SWYriaP_eTnZHuCXLTVXY9MydxNkHjG-XyhE9OwzfjRyx7uW/s2048/img_2927c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibQGj5wyS2a1WVD-AaavGWBtppBqOsGfVLcmlUFB0mI1_FBN2bIlc9AfyR2Vkh9yxNIG7d9F93sorDWm8XzEtbWkLtQmj3SWYriaP_eTnZHuCXLTVXY9MydxNkHjG-XyhE9OwzfjRyx7uW/w400-h266/img_2927c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">But Utah missed. So Eddie nosed his Dauntless into its own dive.</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLay3I6KjyUWNZMo0j3Ak8BKOblJqUUWGkMRKXX3gVQse7ORxDDBZq8xiAMf95sxfc-nux55SPXpCjeKxStlfVQK6hwtK72UpZpf4612DBPqMq24ZxuMWm12k8P76ZzGf-QYwGKj1d9BnF/s2048/img_2930c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLay3I6KjyUWNZMo0j3Ak8BKOblJqUUWGkMRKXX3gVQse7ORxDDBZq8xiAMf95sxfc-nux55SPXpCjeKxStlfVQK6hwtK72UpZpf4612DBPqMq24ZxuMWm12k8P76ZzGf-QYwGKj1d9BnF/w400-h266/img_2930c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">His 500 lb bomb struck the ship just aft of the single funnel. The bomb tore through the bottom of the ship mortally wounding her. The concussion knocked over two supply trucks.</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZ0cJF2GUpj-lF5X3WPpKalcaS2Ms5Rp9DZg_VqmFMe3S5DuBg38haX_7minU8GWARX1EMhASDL5MKYSV5zepiejp3JPJhNel3ALE4zEZkjQLHLk_InL_jMtDcI8KZyVDmANMjZhSu1XU/s2048/img_2929c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZ0cJF2GUpj-lF5X3WPpKalcaS2Ms5Rp9DZg_VqmFMe3S5DuBg38haX_7minU8GWARX1EMhASDL5MKYSV5zepiejp3JPJhNel3ALE4zEZkjQLHLk_InL_jMtDcI8KZyVDmANMjZhSu1XU/w400-h266/img_2929c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Nice one Eddie. That was some explosion. She immediately heeled to port and looks like she is going to turn turtle."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Thanks! Time to return to Ranger?"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"You betcha. --- Utah out."</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">---------- ---------- ----------</span></b></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div><b><span style="background-color: #9fc5e8; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="background-color: #9fc5e8; font-size: large;">CLOSING REMARKS</span></b></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">(1) Our story is an adaptation of October 4, 1943's Operation Leader naval air attack on Bod<a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="color: black;">ø</span></a>, Norway. USN Aircraft Carrier Ranger in cooperation with the British Home Fleet launched two groups of aircraft to disrupt German naval operations. Group 1 consisted of 20 Dauntless Dive Bombers escorted by 8 Wildcats. Group 2's composition was 10 Avenger Torpedo Bombers protected by 6 Wildcats.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(2) Miniatures on hand were deployed and numerically scaled back. Thus, Devastator Torpedo planes stood in for the Avengers and the date of our drama is on an unseasonably hot day in August 1943 solely because most of my Germans are dressed for warm weather. </span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">(3) There is room to possibly include a surface naval battle with the Kriegsmarine. German Battleship Tirpitz was still operational until September 22, 1943. Add escorts and air cover for a what-if game and have them charge out of a fjord.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(4) There were three opportunities to play a solo game as the story evolved during production. Home Rules adapted from Bag The Hun, Check Your Six and Duel of Eagles were used. </div></span><div><span><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(5) Act 1 --- Scene 2: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Me-109s could not catch up to the Devastators before all four torpedoes were launched at the Wilhelmina. However, the fighters were coming on very fast and soon opened up. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lt. Zeiss hit Devastator #4 (Buckley) knocking out his engine causing him to ditch. The Luftwaffe rookie wingman, Gunther, fired wildly using almost all of his ammunition. He missed the allied plane he was shooting at and was rewarded by jamming. He could not unjam and so flew off. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Wilhelmina vainly tried to help with machine gun fire but continuously failed.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Zeiss became the target of three Devastator rear gunners forcing him veer away. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Torpedo Attack: Torpedo 2 did not strike the freighter because the latter had been steering to port hoping to avoid some of the fish. It missed. Torpedoes 1 and 3 struck causing four points of damage. (2xD6s added together; 1+3=4) Eight was needed to sink the ship. #4 torpedo struck last the next turn but was a dud. Wilhelmina was 50% damaged and afire though. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Litko makes the torpedoes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Captain Chafee ordered the Devastators to turn hard to the right to retreat back to the sea and Ranger. Oddly Lt. Zeiss overestimated his opponents and was out of angle to fire for a time. But, he flipped around in the celebrated immelman maneuver and rocketed toward one Devastator. His fire did not down the allied plane but its speed was considerably reduced by damage. Zeiss then broke off due to low ammunition and because he did not want to tangle with pilot and rear gunner fire from the three remaining enemy planes.</div></span><span><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Zeiss flew to Wilhelmina to look her over and then joined Gunther for a return to base. Wilhelmina suffered explosions, struck rocks and eventually sank. Most of the crew rowed ashore to safety.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The three remaining Devastators returned to Ranger. Buckley and Harrison swam the short distance to shore and were recovered by Norwegian resistance fighters. Months later they were taken off by a Royal Navy submarine and returned to Scapa Flow.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(6) Act 2 --- Scenes 3-4-5:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">After the war it was determined that the Luftwaffe serendipitously perpetuated a clever ruse to draw off the Wildcat fighters escorting Bomber Squadron #3 with the two Me-109s seen earlier in the story. This allowed the Focke-Wulfs to easily engage St. Julian's Dauntlesses. The 109s were unable to fight because Gunther was still jammed and Zeiss was nearly out of ammunition. Thus, they acted as decoys. (This is called "movie logic" in the motion picture business.)</span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">German Losses: </div><span><div style="text-align: justify;">Freighter Argonaut and an unidentified small Destroyer sunk.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Argonaut seamen Tiny and Kurt did jump into the water to save themselves. Both enjoyed fishing until surrendering to the Norwegian resistance in April 1945.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Colonel von Schill's Operation Nordhimmel (an Alfred Hitchcock McGuffin) was cancelled. Records lost. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One Dauntless was shot down. Pilot Russo and Airgunner Drew survived their low altitude jump becoming POWs returning to the USA after the war.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;">(7) The story was adapted from an actual historical event, 1943's Operation Leader. Hopefully you enjoyed the eye candy, dialogue, photographic techniques, (forced perspective was one), style and unique circumstances. The production crew (me) listened to the soundtrack from the 2019 movie Midway a lot. It was stimulating, entertaining and enhanced creativity.</div></span><span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2sdqFh8SWV9sr0Q1GMRdbgfWaBkfb6TPFc_DoPpVBKzCK3TE2jx7Ngxa3usD-De7X2y4CpGksiRKdY4zzdr8DpYjVyPx8egwoOUNUQB4Mvc07VhhwD81zImTXPX4b_mELxTmYCATBw5Q/s2048/img_2932c2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2sdqFh8SWV9sr0Q1GMRdbgfWaBkfb6TPFc_DoPpVBKzCK3TE2jx7Ngxa3usD-De7X2y4CpGksiRKdY4zzdr8DpYjVyPx8egwoOUNUQB4Mvc07VhhwD81zImTXPX4b_mELxTmYCATBw5Q/w400-h266/img_2932c2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Thank you for your interest. Pettygree out.</div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><b style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;">Comments are welcome below.</span></b></span></div></span><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">---------- ---------- ----------</div></span></div></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-75815098342859723582020-12-19T08:55:00.001-06:002020-12-19T08:57:14.224-06:00MERRY CHRISTMAS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>MERRY CHRISTMAS</b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjexKk3rvbTKNuGQRlyA9UoZJBBKFHZ2OeqwgpQu53Y5WurToi22Qhjc3VWCDwCkmJbllWzKj3z4GzYn1Ur4s8Wu_CetW1JN6LJfx4nv7T75OawTp4E55COc9kO3a_obe7TSbRLhzGdk1w/s3888/img_2616.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjexKk3rvbTKNuGQRlyA9UoZJBBKFHZ2OeqwgpQu53Y5WurToi22Qhjc3VWCDwCkmJbllWzKj3z4GzYn1Ur4s8Wu_CetW1JN6LJfx4nv7T75OawTp4E55COc9kO3a_obe7TSbRLhzGdk1w/w400-h400/img_2616.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b>Jesus, The Reason For The Season and Always</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-16396275659257889442020-09-28T22:29:00.011-05:002020-10-06T19:42:49.786-05:00BATTLING BACK TO KHARTOUM<p><br /></p><span style="font-size: medium;">Date: 26 September 1884 {2020}<br />Location: Khartoum and Environs</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Situation: Battling Back to Khartoum --- Will?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Lt. Olley rescue the British Museum Party aboard Eclipse?<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">2. The Dervish storm Khartoum?<br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Lt. Grandmaison find and bring reinforcements?<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's find out, shall we?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #ffd966;"><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Two Days Ago</span></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx_v7Pkxkk05QwaZUK5asRAd9wFNJcHNQyokVZFbOO97Ghpo8qQvH7yGZ2D9B7FikzXaL8ZAiaXXvkys93Rms5fs_dkexk4GzMc99qRYizV_NlxlZgk3iabkZ-0HCfYkG1gdF6-eHU_cs/s3888/img_2527.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx_v7Pkxkk05QwaZUK5asRAd9wFNJcHNQyokVZFbOO97Ghpo8qQvH7yGZ2D9B7FikzXaL8ZAiaXXvkys93Rms5fs_dkexk4GzMc99qRYizV_NlxlZgk3iabkZ-0HCfYkG1gdF6-eHU_cs/w400-h400/img_2527.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Lt. Grandmaison's Lancer Troop</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Tenent! We should have charged the enemy camelry bursting through into Khartoum!"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">"We could have easily beaten the camelry lad but the rifles coming on behind 'em would have made short work of us. We would never have broken through. Best to retire now."</span><br /> <br /><span style="font-size: medium;">"<b>Troop Ready, </b><b>--- Bugler, ForWARD!</b> --- Isabel, <b>Hah.</b>"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">And silently, "Now to find and report to General Pettygree."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>One Day Ago</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9dFFLinyY4w_Tg_zx-edeIwvUu1JQVRDaREhDEoQyne1X437wA614Moxk32H-5IXVBqFAG54TXHHO9iz23r2265NFfidAgYLLNZQMRdGfi9XCFdRJlQpOxQZAbwnmIzbhXSMFzU0pVgY/s2048/img_2582b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9dFFLinyY4w_Tg_zx-edeIwvUu1JQVRDaREhDEoQyne1X437wA614Moxk32H-5IXVBqFAG54TXHHO9iz23r2265NFfidAgYLLNZQMRdGfi9XCFdRJlQpOxQZAbwnmIzbhXSMFzU0pVgY/w400-h268/img_2582b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>General Pettygree's Headquarters</b></div></span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoXfyTXBXgJv7x2zUQ99MrDIILPxl4UziBfkeKq-6j1WZKgixJ6gS6tMTr7IzMLQCITxOvtk_NvdNDZT3KuwXsEe8edTiGSKW3zZfoqMZP9B4TOhnJRiX852MhfejFfw3qNZH580xrXYU/s3888/img_2584.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoXfyTXBXgJv7x2zUQ99MrDIILPxl4UziBfkeKq-6j1WZKgixJ6gS6tMTr7IzMLQCITxOvtk_NvdNDZT3KuwXsEe8edTiGSKW3zZfoqMZP9B4TOhnJRiX852MhfejFfw3qNZH580xrXYU/w400-h400/img_2584.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Charlie, the Dervish are at Khartoum. Is the General here?"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5cglGHWoqbBHvqgSd9jYNBD7VIO-Hf2Hd-mkxT49p4UQuYGFy87FpbgjfPMAuKA_48joD6MInqN78R9eigDoNz5CpQEpLTON3MSnNhOTAaAn6Z0-ofNpmbF3-zBJZdJKUQnbuCOFgt5s/s2048/img_2584b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5cglGHWoqbBHvqgSd9jYNBD7VIO-Hf2Hd-mkxT49p4UQuYGFy87FpbgjfPMAuKA_48joD6MInqN78R9eigDoNz5CpQEpLTON3MSnNhOTAaAn6Z0-ofNpmbF3-zBJZdJKUQnbuCOFgt5s/w400-h266/img_2584b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Yes. --- He knows Grandmaison. News came by telegraph before the wire was cut. The Egyptian Lancers, Camel Corps and the Gatling Section are preparing to march within the hour. --- Here he comes now."</div></span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2OgCWCf6AKsdvRHtp5vCslv00lhkSBrCIj9dRWxX6ngmW-xw02YFVqlg9NPEidrnLooEWpUcpCk2jFS1B9d2u30xOG0b48VkHv_Nx_OldZ6-1CbUVKtwyA_52cBFkmcNRsbOilP7xfPE/s3888/img_2585.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2OgCWCf6AKsdvRHtp5vCslv00lhkSBrCIj9dRWxX6ngmW-xw02YFVqlg9NPEidrnLooEWpUcpCk2jFS1B9d2u30xOG0b48VkHv_Nx_OldZ6-1CbUVKtwyA_52cBFkmcNRsbOilP7xfPE/w400-h400/img_2585.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Grandmaison. --- There you are. --- Report."</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"General, the Dervish are massing before Khartoum. Thousands of 'em. My troop barely escaped from the Anwar Oasis and defile."</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Well done, my boy. Your news confirms the telegaph dispatched yesterday. --- Alright, get some food and be ready to guide the entire Lancer Regiment back to the defile. Push the enemy out, if practicable. I'll be directly behind you with the Camel Corps and Gatlings."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Very good, Sir."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>September 26, 1884 {2020}</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Anwar Oasis and The Relief Column</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjSJFO8xPh1kL5IWLqrFPTT6I9bbXT_jRdcL9dQJ5w6R9QbIuCcLwwIZU5dgEBPNx4XQGoXOwFdPcEzCuxVneFOGwDQBUKIKYpSc6LluDxjTkWpCnpJpWfCZMvnjflxnM7DfA1ukj52d0/s2048/img_2542b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjSJFO8xPh1kL5IWLqrFPTT6I9bbXT_jRdcL9dQJ5w6R9QbIuCcLwwIZU5dgEBPNx4XQGoXOwFdPcEzCuxVneFOGwDQBUKIKYpSc6LluDxjTkWpCnpJpWfCZMvnjflxnM7DfA1ukj52d0/w400-h266/img_2542b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Silently, "The defile is clear but Anwar Oasis is occupied."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi20V7DfbMYmSmp7hiTsaeuvbGrC6Y1TDj53vLEvtRFC-KhO_2voJKNaCnSx38wnRVRWNfnk3gitMKvX17oMh5an95GJu2Y8zfdyN8RGsyBjcYjY0Dn-AoiUj2w6svlMNyDd6F4k9PcyE8/s3888/img_2547.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi20V7DfbMYmSmp7hiTsaeuvbGrC6Y1TDj53vLEvtRFC-KhO_2voJKNaCnSx38wnRVRWNfnk3gitMKvX17oMh5an95GJu2Y8zfdyN8RGsyBjcYjY0Dn-AoiUj2w6svlMNyDd6F4k9PcyE8/w400-h400/img_2547.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Lancers <i>Charge!</i></b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8cfjrULO_Ca3P6RYF1L39ESaeFGAcdW8Y46pkdultYWEfo7uY64NdKswT4Y3uJzuJjgZHbH4EekaachWgRPuHOnxx7AqZxmJGtBW8arh2tiLtH-gaPwzIyzYJGUsd62clNbIhEYpjkNo/s3888/img_2551.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8cfjrULO_Ca3P6RYF1L39ESaeFGAcdW8Y46pkdultYWEfo7uY64NdKswT4Y3uJzuJjgZHbH4EekaachWgRPuHOnxx7AqZxmJGtBW8arh2tiLtH-gaPwzIyzYJGUsd62clNbIhEYpjkNo/w400-h400/img_2551.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"The impact amongst ferocious Hadendowahs and the caucophony of shouts and oaths was ear-splitting."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2c17ww3s5Ib7lcKZ84susExs1f-e4hh0toCC1pZhk2d6Ptyd1KZiiztbpSqRlzX07w3CHT6NF2X8cRhNeY3nsuH1UKfPwLdLTKejOd3vFDbx-ikRNvhrs7bzw_154F3mcjvHXy-nq3BE/s3888/img_2552.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2c17ww3s5Ib7lcKZ84susExs1f-e4hh0toCC1pZhk2d6Ptyd1KZiiztbpSqRlzX07w3CHT6NF2X8cRhNeY3nsuH1UKfPwLdLTKejOd3vFDbx-ikRNvhrs7bzw_154F3mcjvHXy-nq3BE/w400-h400/img_2552.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"We were repulsed!"</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge2tP_oSY-Zrfqi8MDrM0AncX-WZ3jtsfVOS7OAhupwbNU6DwDJZPIwl9WlF9DpOkNn7ynw0xoKoaHxm9iXZq55ckuFKOFbCk4yURKFAasG2ci9qBs04b1zVa_biurLVFQ7Bvl0uPGmAo/s3888/img_2553.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge2tP_oSY-Zrfqi8MDrM0AncX-WZ3jtsfVOS7OAhupwbNU6DwDJZPIwl9WlF9DpOkNn7ynw0xoKoaHxm9iXZq55ckuFKOFbCk4yURKFAasG2ci9qBs04b1zVa_biurLVFQ7Bvl0uPGmAo/w400-h400/img_2553.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"After rallying back, the Regiment charged again. All was disorder and confusion mostly with sabers because of broken and thrown down lances. I peeled off to the flank...."</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHz4_8FvNSDvxkKnCKjkdDqTsxBN2hpOz8zdH20lG4dPx1WROzd0lG2sta-K_PYWDc4Q1z_Q700-yLSzzbNZLCUt1FICRwonPLtzlRbxvXvg4_pQJsKS1yoNPZY2Hz8KmMkWTafSCUXCw/s3888/img_2554.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHz4_8FvNSDvxkKnCKjkdDqTsxBN2hpOz8zdH20lG4dPx1WROzd0lG2sta-K_PYWDc4Q1z_Q700-yLSzzbNZLCUt1FICRwonPLtzlRbxvXvg4_pQJsKS1yoNPZY2Hz8KmMkWTafSCUXCw/w400-h400/img_2554.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Charging Hadendowah riflemen posted there. Their fire was ineffectual and they ran."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxawWv8Q0j0trCROVXeD6US4C0oEBXVH7c4tSypbrPl6UEvPUiWDbBRXvoz_JFd01h2eOkO4ruBiGwepj3hQTT8U167ajXNKzUFXswwSE506uczXqsAGf8alTbIUY8kbMkzBFYj4D7GIo/s3888/img_2557.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxawWv8Q0j0trCROVXeD6US4C0oEBXVH7c4tSypbrPl6UEvPUiWDbBRXvoz_JFd01h2eOkO4ruBiGwepj3hQTT8U167ajXNKzUFXswwSE506uczXqsAGf8alTbIUY8kbMkzBFYj4D7GIo/w400-h400/img_2557.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"All were cut down in the pursuit. None surrendered."</span></div></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-llqroh4ajehauv5WvuMhfCXCVqYzEfavDUMqI6teQCMFVLyXkLWQDu2DvN0L4zqyKU2T9DlShrCJD2lG27nr5YmiDg_prjLwueBrqYvaSrvXLJM7JwUJ_RKIRaNuboFkPhruxo0t1T4/s3888/img_2560.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-llqroh4ajehauv5WvuMhfCXCVqYzEfavDUMqI6teQCMFVLyXkLWQDu2DvN0L4zqyKU2T9DlShrCJD2lG27nr5YmiDg_prjLwueBrqYvaSrvXLJM7JwUJ_RKIRaNuboFkPhruxo0t1T4/w400-h400/img_2560.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Meanwhile the Regiment was thrown back again unable to break through the fanatics. Fortunately the commander rallied them in a safe area. No doubt they were encouraged by the arrival of...."</div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiziwawTUY-kdbbeg8uOlFsfPx-hyjbPYID1mo21iau_wfVeh82L_IBvIT_nzuC8aKEX_EL1kHxgRnVIMSrDjLjMXQb9BJOLTPMrmN1fLiFvTP-Ta7Zx4XTpqmn-KTNqB_DZJgrq9_OJeA/s3888/img_2559.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiziwawTUY-kdbbeg8uOlFsfPx-hyjbPYID1mo21iau_wfVeh82L_IBvIT_nzuC8aKEX_EL1kHxgRnVIMSrDjLjMXQb9BJOLTPMrmN1fLiFvTP-Ta7Zx4XTpqmn-KTNqB_DZJgrq9_OJeA/w400-h400/img_2559.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">"General Pettygree."</div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAwEd_1Er6BOlQsufmiwRKBKNTOvBnWxRAJySHPif6N_DnpMzq8kj8zuFMNpgzxXfWDgsoanYq2vipmj9CXTSxkej7ccMmpecC17RQ0cPipcT0kw3qsz1Ey-MDhmQMJJzhlMgBbUvpLvA/s3888/img_2558.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAwEd_1Er6BOlQsufmiwRKBKNTOvBnWxRAJySHPif6N_DnpMzq8kj8zuFMNpgzxXfWDgsoanYq2vipmj9CXTSxkej7ccMmpecC17RQ0cPipcT0kw3qsz1Ey-MDhmQMJJzhlMgBbUvpLvA/w400-h400/img_2558.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">"And the Camel Corps."</div></span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgGyCL8-TMLf6i2xpw2ILyhP5a39Ps_RRppOONHJkUPyjxMxuR7mSEQHAHQr9tGjoo3WW-rxVY0yKVvM2thzQFPwLqRkJzJKfJyOYpD7ypuoYKx2osefq-8373OkVp8bnUkgeXQQZY4ak/s3888/img_2572.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgGyCL8-TMLf6i2xpw2ILyhP5a39Ps_RRppOONHJkUPyjxMxuR7mSEQHAHQr9tGjoo3WW-rxVY0yKVvM2thzQFPwLqRkJzJKfJyOYpD7ypuoYKx2osefq-8373OkVp8bnUkgeXQQZY4ak/w400-h400/img_2572.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">"All marched steadily forward toward Anwar Oasis."</div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2eqzbLkT8-Lp_y8V2FM3R6l4iIZm876Kvdwaj_QmL06hhz0hqJqWN9ULcDm5X7ocHA-XvEh3rc-Z_O3WG6xmUdMaDcVoBJG33dGT2ctO4pfSnQyW7cmtXrIm2OtYi-HUGBjsJ3iAIgE/s3888/img_2546.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2eqzbLkT8-Lp_y8V2FM3R6l4iIZm876Kvdwaj_QmL06hhz0hqJqWN9ULcDm5X7ocHA-XvEh3rc-Z_O3WG6xmUdMaDcVoBJG33dGT2ctO4pfSnQyW7cmtXrIm2OtYi-HUGBjsJ3iAIgE/w400-h400/img_2546.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">"As the Hadendowah retired...."</div></span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh57yb1gQGNS-0SpdS5P-pdoSve-cbPSN-jBIx94JzHf3v-xm1tOwfYbT4VbJg6eF5DGFv1qzsqFQeOTEL5141Ht0HtVYjlvH6Gi8JQRg22V19iuZ_SB8hT0vg2Xg0RGSYWtVqDltav3q8/s3888/img_2562.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh57yb1gQGNS-0SpdS5P-pdoSve-cbPSN-jBIx94JzHf3v-xm1tOwfYbT4VbJg6eF5DGFv1qzsqFQeOTEL5141Ht0HtVYjlvH6Gi8JQRg22V19iuZ_SB8hT0vg2Xg0RGSYWtVqDltav3q8/w400-h400/img_2562.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"With dignity."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi15o88sE1C_VJyA4_ftoCwDhCxV9Qo1ExImNg8119a0bCY4ZEU18WJr3lYtrBt7ToonIWajJN9Zmlhl_iC2P32D3WWaREsCbll6Ey7vBq2F9McllHtiSljDmiATrsTcZe9J3qLKF-76wg/s3888/img_2578.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi15o88sE1C_VJyA4_ftoCwDhCxV9Qo1ExImNg8119a0bCY4ZEU18WJr3lYtrBt7ToonIWajJN9Zmlhl_iC2P32D3WWaREsCbll6Ey7vBq2F9McllHtiSljDmiATrsTcZe9J3qLKF-76wg/w400-h400/img_2578.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"And our respect when they turned to face us again."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #f1c232;"><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>September 26, 1884 {2020}</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Storming Khartoum</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipSbVMcoa6thEnDSx5MukneeAj6z3XUf8hcsEo6RqILjsHofJwXKNJxajzku3mjlKvrUtw0fsx34ycQYls5daYz5Gf5f1ylnCKh8fRPSTaDDxUC4Ux6XGhDscNqPO0UC7wmu0Ig7NpXZM/s3888/img_2530.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipSbVMcoa6thEnDSx5MukneeAj6z3XUf8hcsEo6RqILjsHofJwXKNJxajzku3mjlKvrUtw0fsx34ycQYls5daYz5Gf5f1ylnCKh8fRPSTaDDxUC4Ux6XGhDscNqPO0UC7wmu0Ig7NpXZM/w400-h400/img_2530.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Dervishes Approach The Left Face of the Fortress</span></span></div><div><span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwzpo1fZUhrSp0FTUD8XJsg6iEFOrwJyI1LId04u0GOfMOD4lLhLgWa_Ot8VHGcm_2K3Ka9jpkS4LUZJWX0l7rGDrm7C1Ft6V_AzCZnRYwMRnPloYuBVqoSMHDZ2EN_LLIgplNfD2v8_o/s3888/img_2533.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwzpo1fZUhrSp0FTUD8XJsg6iEFOrwJyI1LId04u0GOfMOD4lLhLgWa_Ot8VHGcm_2K3Ka9jpkS4LUZJWX0l7rGDrm7C1Ft6V_AzCZnRYwMRnPloYuBVqoSMHDZ2EN_LLIgplNfD2v8_o/w400-h400/img_2533.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Closing In With Scaling Ladders</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtcVkihDsOXW9Lsu_npZqYTN2UJI2Y1Txvj75bgLXj1PwT0I1O3oOPMY-UFeO46uDBgjzV8pgiG_yHlyQ4Z4D8EAnZzQ5Eut3QgueG4ZLMrvkO9An1AiKuEMN5U8NxjOpd2fnSp9Fmvl8/s3888/img_2534.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtcVkihDsOXW9Lsu_npZqYTN2UJI2Y1Txvj75bgLXj1PwT0I1O3oOPMY-UFeO46uDBgjzV8pgiG_yHlyQ4Z4D8EAnZzQ5Eut3QgueG4ZLMrvkO9An1AiKuEMN5U8NxjOpd2fnSp9Fmvl8/w400-h400/img_2534.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Along the Entire Face</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqVgFQsG7x-6est3psULzekOHJPG4gnvnyWbCFM2Yv-soAAWkbTivA7vrTR3pN1Z1PZwl8a1iPO-AUgYO9RQug_aVvT7zs71-ldzKBARvsMApko12W1KxAOgIrpaf8VhK3r5JFrAONXF0/w400-h400/img_2539.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Ladders Are Set and The Dervish Climb</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7G0OQ2IqM3OCxoAQqQnBABwKVh8g8kRwaSwIsMnzuEtaeRTIUy8Ln6CLgWXtvdia1ydQax3gCo7T4-fVN3dLd31Do65aTISaLvDgmlKIOF3fSOuLnKIYuXebWNSOqSLiHqHrV5UgHWns/s3888/img_2537.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7G0OQ2IqM3OCxoAQqQnBABwKVh8g8kRwaSwIsMnzuEtaeRTIUy8Ln6CLgWXtvdia1ydQax3gCo7T4-fVN3dLd31Do65aTISaLvDgmlKIOF3fSOuLnKIYuXebWNSOqSLiHqHrV5UgHWns/w400-h400/img_2537.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Left Bastion Defenders Hold 'Em Back</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmGD_yRYlkvg4hif1THhowp5vINu0pIZKgTQt3PvlSCMxntw-R0MgHX7EhrDRqQqLaR3jwNA0j692HyAjs6Jzluu8IOY25sZTMEDIrYjXJwjZWKiN7cJTQxgeHtkEP_iKJSmYgjHxGyPo/s3888/img_2541.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmGD_yRYlkvg4hif1THhowp5vINu0pIZKgTQt3PvlSCMxntw-R0MgHX7EhrDRqQqLaR3jwNA0j692HyAjs6Jzluu8IOY25sZTMEDIrYjXJwjZWKiN7cJTQxgeHtkEP_iKJSmYgjHxGyPo/w400-h400/img_2541.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">More Ascend to Fight</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6QQJBRpjB0S-s8aI0Unt7-7LVS7HRb2QXYY51wpUz-16o6ucDvMdvZ0Qrdu4xvqScpNsdQP6hLbnAths01vjNu668TxJmS-cse3D7c2FqcXFUzSkWfAoY4n2UxnGf03fKmJhLhS_V-I0/s3888/img_2549.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6QQJBRpjB0S-s8aI0Unt7-7LVS7HRb2QXYY51wpUz-16o6ucDvMdvZ0Qrdu4xvqScpNsdQP6hLbnAths01vjNu668TxJmS-cse3D7c2FqcXFUzSkWfAoY4n2UxnGf03fKmJhLhS_V-I0/w400-h400/img_2549.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A Small Breach</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzI7-rZc3w8xAAIRsYijmqz8WxmvrPWd55c0Oj5u9BSbmu1DuGWR5cvE6NxuowMIIyx_5dLtgtgXKkb0Vofeq7W-lf35RDtH2md9fpq2jbaJaUl6wqevcrhs5ylW6VcFALfSM3ZkBCGb8/s3888/img_2565.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzI7-rZc3w8xAAIRsYijmqz8WxmvrPWd55c0Oj5u9BSbmu1DuGWR5cvE6NxuowMIIyx_5dLtgtgXKkb0Vofeq7W-lf35RDtH2md9fpq2jbaJaUl6wqevcrhs5ylW6VcFALfSM3ZkBCGb8/w400-h400/img_2565.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Defence of the Adjacent Wall Fails </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Dervish Now Hold Tower Gate</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">and</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Have Breached The Right Face (upper image)</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiARy-2lyLDW_6_1IfwqOXeCWdQjK_moQKnrqi7iPk9DP2D4GuY8a8vMhpijBl0QjKDOya-friKeZ-F1ZIr5S8dCCP-nhRCypQt4C4f5NKZDtkWP_4SRxJnsoP2j7WzC_7HRXmK0ja6P48/s2048/img_2566b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1369" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiARy-2lyLDW_6_1IfwqOXeCWdQjK_moQKnrqi7iPk9DP2D4GuY8a8vMhpijBl0QjKDOya-friKeZ-F1ZIr5S8dCCP-nhRCypQt4C4f5NKZDtkWP_4SRxJnsoP2j7WzC_7HRXmK0ja6P48/w400-h268/img_2566b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">More Penetration</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_lK_yU3soOVOYPqxkCfFhbS6BfPasCZD6h1gNcgs-ec5vh0pvDI2C1HJM7imjSdIsVhQycUvFIHh3cKcHWbzF_RwNa9jd9MCfKv0ufXxkfABbE7CGfm5OgF86BRoLMugz9vuZEfMzHBE/s2048/img_2559b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_lK_yU3soOVOYPqxkCfFhbS6BfPasCZD6h1gNcgs-ec5vh0pvDI2C1HJM7imjSdIsVhQycUvFIHh3cKcHWbzF_RwNa9jd9MCfKv0ufXxkfABbE7CGfm5OgF86BRoLMugz9vuZEfMzHBE/w400-h266/img_2559b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"I'm too late. There is no rifle smoke anywhere along the fortress wall. The guns are silent. That means the Dervishes must be inside doing terrible execution. What of the garrision, civilians and Gordon?"</span></div><b style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></span></div><div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4XDP-dhufGl65kvz-Ip8Eu9zG5-RXWqQv0x-jEcDy0E0xZFJI4NserOyMzYCaJGWly0q58TQMvWlYNYmWf4fB6cLxM321okRQeIbFZe8VH-n-s5d4Iiyd-yFE1oW1SDBW24DfMmxQj4w/s3888/img_2586.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4XDP-dhufGl65kvz-Ip8Eu9zG5-RXWqQv0x-jEcDy0E0xZFJI4NserOyMzYCaJGWly0q58TQMvWlYNYmWf4fB6cLxM321okRQeIbFZe8VH-n-s5d4Iiyd-yFE1oW1SDBW24DfMmxQj4w/w400-h400/img_2586.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Gentlemen. There is no more fighting along the ramparts. Smoke rises from within the city. The foe we steadily pushed back confidently holds the ground before us. I regret to believe Khartoum has fallen. Issue orders to fall back without delay."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIgOjS5s-mplF1v-9iJS0Bfs6VSGkts3qAacbdvPss0QJcPlXAKHVVVoJfxx1Yw3Q352STjXVg_Jx5WjEjHcac7r23yzTkksX-APW9QYDp8jaD8vAHn-XtkXoPU0MiAUw9g9VhjPuZe2A/s3888/img_2588.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIgOjS5s-mplF1v-9iJS0Bfs6VSGkts3qAacbdvPss0QJcPlXAKHVVVoJfxx1Yw3Q352STjXVg_Jx5WjEjHcac7r23yzTkksX-APW9QYDp8jaD8vAHn-XtkXoPU0MiAUw9g9VhjPuZe2A/w400-h400/img_2588.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Nearby a subaltern remains fixed on the distant drama.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWaKcOoWy0gzwySvCANNfNzK6LXFqOjDK_9ja6AZKU3lCIi2avLYPXkewnbntUXo-DHd-FsOwQiUsBw0xC0FVEGrKRneYQ4Ph941uYb7SjVbcwsIzMmsbtEG8YaviLWCZ4IY125r8ver4/s3888/img_2589.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWaKcOoWy0gzwySvCANNfNzK6LXFqOjDK_9ja6AZKU3lCIi2avLYPXkewnbntUXo-DHd-FsOwQiUsBw0xC0FVEGrKRneYQ4Ph941uYb7SjVbcwsIzMmsbtEG8YaviLWCZ4IY125r8ver4/w400-h400/img_2589.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"General, I beg your pardon."</span></span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Yes Ashton."</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Would the General care to look once more at the city?"</span></div><div><span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuy_CzaDQgOWbm1gNbcaMesIEb8x0hB9J6aiazPR2lldaTq0gu37CO5V67LdyPcKz82PHClB-93Ck_JK-ndmgyNkxk1JVcAZSKhyphenhyphenNbh745lZrK71UTuKOJJUGphmZVWVAHFNbaR-_vO88/s3888/img_2590.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuy_CzaDQgOWbm1gNbcaMesIEb8x0hB9J6aiazPR2lldaTq0gu37CO5V67LdyPcKz82PHClB-93Ck_JK-ndmgyNkxk1JVcAZSKhyphenhyphenNbh745lZrK71UTuKOJJUGphmZVWVAHFNbaR-_vO88/w400-h400/img_2590.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Oh my...."</span><br /><b style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEdS5HWOnCFKLlIjrTzO9o1aOn1BRIxVuUvVVjVXDFVve2hTNNKld3ctS89KDdw5A_qipSl7U3CpbzPawrtCfvcfuriIsW4OWAT5ufOJ6Xzsz3_zJmyxfMpcKxMpfggzmlWpeUMJadGUo/s3888/img_2575.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEdS5HWOnCFKLlIjrTzO9o1aOn1BRIxVuUvVVjVXDFVve2hTNNKld3ctS89KDdw5A_qipSl7U3CpbzPawrtCfvcfuriIsW4OWAT5ufOJ6Xzsz3_zJmyxfMpcKxMpfggzmlWpeUMJadGUo/w400-h400/img_2575.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"They are running! Running! Do you see?"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">"Somehow Gordon drew an ace, Sir."</span></div></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">British Museum Excavation Site C</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8SGr1awdDiPratJeLk5_zDCsZA0aDXpPa_ksR5z0KyzaWIUoL0-BmGXjlR95WcTDkAyq7LO3nP3pD13yY_3fJMVp0-LeqLnCjzjf2L3Th997T1vZ6M7Y1nIkb8HCIPg5Bumvl515eaAM/s3888/img_2569.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8SGr1awdDiPratJeLk5_zDCsZA0aDXpPa_ksR5z0KyzaWIUoL0-BmGXjlR95WcTDkAyq7LO3nP3pD13yY_3fJMVp0-LeqLnCjzjf2L3Th997T1vZ6M7Y1nIkb8HCIPg5Bumvl515eaAM/w400-h400/img_2569.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lieutenant Olley tied Eclipse to the shore near British Museum Excavation Site C to rescue Lady Mary Pettygree.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjny0Gb6pRxMzXqPYPefPJd5Y2YhqyVj7UWzM-D3ublRWsbOSDWLz7YS-nMPrVRhcAoODbwugFewvWmW2DjSQSOI417xCgKs60Sb0lK2BYkVV5ONz-_i3pnYTTr7tcQK-IJHgYtHXOiP20/s3888/img_2570.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjny0Gb6pRxMzXqPYPefPJd5Y2YhqyVj7UWzM-D3ublRWsbOSDWLz7YS-nMPrVRhcAoODbwugFewvWmW2DjSQSOI417xCgKs60Sb0lK2BYkVV5ONz-_i3pnYTTr7tcQK-IJHgYtHXOiP20/w400-h400/img_2570.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"There she is Sir and Abigail too, if I'm not mistaken."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">"Where away, Mr. Tidders?"</div></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQWY45CzhbVG6OAA9vzcDVCRrm-suyENPb-tG8QpwJE2rcTtcdudOsvPO6RenPtvN3pgkUemF5oWqWOe4f_cLViGr68gjQCGau5eZIEhcY4BNcq8cHvdJCVCgb5US0wDbGJeNkvEDIe_k/s3888/img_2574.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQWY45CzhbVG6OAA9vzcDVCRrm-suyENPb-tG8QpwJE2rcTtcdudOsvPO6RenPtvN3pgkUemF5oWqWOe4f_cLViGr68gjQCGau5eZIEhcY4BNcq8cHvdJCVCgb5US0wDbGJeNkvEDIe_k/w400-h400/img_2574.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The London Times photographed and eventually reported </span>Lt. Olley's successful rescue of Lady Mary Pettygree and Abigail at British Museum Excavation Site C. He would later be promoted to a Captaincy and become a sought after exploration speaker throughout the Kingdom.</div></span></div></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffd966; color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffd966; color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>CLOSING REMARKS</b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5iVG6aNkhORZJLPEwWjr8WyZ12_IwbdOxcCdwVbrvOCWz1j_hOxxJs2SfCFWGzYytTU9o7CnZTiRtR-DyWbO_k2c917YAAUIBoNmOIqYKhC21GLXbNTVLnGPRJoqA6megXKviVUhRHns/s3888/img_2581.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5iVG6aNkhORZJLPEwWjr8WyZ12_IwbdOxcCdwVbrvOCWz1j_hOxxJs2SfCFWGzYytTU9o7CnZTiRtR-DyWbO_k2c917YAAUIBoNmOIqYKhC21GLXbNTVLnGPRJoqA6megXKviVUhRHns/w400-h400/img_2581.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"My dear readers, it only remains to thank you prodigiously for your interest and kind remarks about this great adventure and to express my sincere gratitude to...."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX8rdv5MQ9vqvqnebFX602qwc5hAkB8KeASXbc3lydhMrhRRCUwZBHYu81zNeqcNGh7upslwqXjyQ127456ldJjBFnvkXVqRuLHKngiZBI_Y7PkqzX5c_mUyLnThLIrnhtxVZlMwnfkS8/s3888/img_2580.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX8rdv5MQ9vqvqnebFX602qwc5hAkB8KeASXbc3lydhMrhRRCUwZBHYu81zNeqcNGh7upslwqXjyQ127456ldJjBFnvkXVqRuLHKngiZBI_Y7PkqzX5c_mUyLnThLIrnhtxVZlMwnfkS8/w400-h400/img_2580.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Left to right: Chuck The Lucky, Earl K. (Colonel Coote), Jim P. (Der Alte Fritz as Purky Pasha) and my industrious and loyal chronicler Bill P. Without them, this story could never have been told. Do let them know what you think, if you please."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #f1c232;"><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><></b></span></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-17771952596821714512020-09-23T22:45:00.007-05:002020-09-25T22:50:48.979-05:00BACK TO KHARTOUM<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Date: 26 September, 1884 {2020}<br />Location: Khartoum and Environs<br /><span>Situation: Get Them Back To Khartoum --- Fast!<br /></span></b></span><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaN50qkupSzcqUkufEpHv_wDn8IxW6BsL4HvR_H78AvKQ0cTEHWj6BGJ6u1kQi5OTMefRVR624FRzle5d1BH0tuaPR1Ga4gwfv3w6TXj626I8ZaDKQHfDFk_CXfVCukehDlWD6AjT52wQ/s3888/img_2523.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaN50qkupSzcqUkufEpHv_wDn8IxW6BsL4HvR_H78AvKQ0cTEHWj6BGJ6u1kQi5OTMefRVR624FRzle5d1BH0tuaPR1Ga4gwfv3w6TXj626I8ZaDKQHfDFk_CXfVCukehDlWD6AjT52wQ/w400-h400/img_2523.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Atop Government House in Khartoum</b></div></span><b style="font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Do you see them Private Knight?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Just Eclipse now com'n into view Sir."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4t3bjWVKpK_SWeJvymmOhK7mKPzFBsyw1FojUNoCvrDXnIPk8quYNwzNjfBFlcRF9Rx5ysPrJXmlJk7Irc8bRVzOY-Fq-lNYt3u5H6vsqfSI-Zvb-PC8aGiRyYQTOLJUQXLzj0BtQZZA/s3888/img_2518.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4t3bjWVKpK_SWeJvymmOhK7mKPzFBsyw1FojUNoCvrDXnIPk8quYNwzNjfBFlcRF9Rx5ysPrJXmlJk7Irc8bRVzOY-Fq-lNYt3u5H6vsqfSI-Zvb-PC8aGiRyYQTOLJUQXLzj0BtQZZA/w400-h400/img_2518.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Train that automatic on the shoreline."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Aye Lieutenant Olley."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0W42xMaTC5Kqv690J3nk186EFKpAUWgUglhNySNQBEVbLi-BSx1BXoOpl7qIv9PYvC3IzhfRlyib_SK8Uo-Hf7yw0YScRRKyPlIp6Jg1rZBrQHQocCeOAcZAHrzreHlJwa3l2EQHAF1M/s3888/img_2517.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0W42xMaTC5Kqv690J3nk186EFKpAUWgUglhNySNQBEVbLi-BSx1BXoOpl7qIv9PYvC3IzhfRlyib_SK8Uo-Hf7yw0YScRRKyPlIp6Jg1rZBrQHQocCeOAcZAHrzreHlJwa3l2EQHAF1M/w400-h400/img_2517.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Where the devil is the General and his party? There could be Hadendowah's hid'n anywhere now that we know they are suddenly massing again.<span style="text-align: center;">"</span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcJu9bBWs62X1uRf3LZK8q1Ju4hH8ULAFKAbFBIXED510iBq2yKi21NFBAPd8GA7Fva1WtEwwtYF5dYcVeSTyKPCzi3ZfUt2Lxfa4sniYOIMeayU_lH7vr3tnqLK86Po1ui3lm2rlEhj4/s3888/img_2519.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcJu9bBWs62X1uRf3LZK8q1Ju4hH8ULAFKAbFBIXED510iBq2yKi21NFBAPd8GA7Fva1WtEwwtYF5dYcVeSTyKPCzi3ZfUt2Lxfa4sniYOIMeayU_lH7vr3tnqLK86Po1ui3lm2rlEhj4/w400-h400/img_2519.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"I don't see 'em Sir --- but the're out there --- as sure as Bob's your uncle."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"I don't like it at all Knight. Not one bit."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhH7sWYrOHhjetYFEWQLHuSpjRLOk81ds3YWumaYfkdhmgAeT0roJKtXxjxwB1YVnuScnUba-WLQs_myKUoSkpZhRSMIxGjVvT8IFkxDSph0CVs2qbUJo90q4K07Ms_wZpUxZ7RYFWTBQ/s3888/img_2522.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhH7sWYrOHhjetYFEWQLHuSpjRLOk81ds3YWumaYfkdhmgAeT0roJKtXxjxwB1YVnuScnUba-WLQs_myKUoSkpZhRSMIxGjVvT8IFkxDSph0CVs2qbUJo90q4K07Ms_wZpUxZ7RYFWTBQ/w400-h400/img_2522.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>British Museum Excavation Site C</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGkeHLz0dClFv4cqFpoHvyMtszhWvugnpdokPFisCwAEwRmcMRAWny_vIg27fVdr4pT7AKuIddsnaAJ5Q3nk1SiI3irO45_t-3bJKxmXRaSKenpYJTu7YU1CeES1dL3rOpaBQcvJ0dYSI/s3888/img_2521.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGkeHLz0dClFv4cqFpoHvyMtszhWvugnpdokPFisCwAEwRmcMRAWny_vIg27fVdr4pT7AKuIddsnaAJ5Q3nk1SiI3irO45_t-3bJKxmXRaSKenpYJTu7YU1CeES1dL3rOpaBQcvJ0dYSI/w400-h400/img_2521.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"William, Abigail and I have the idea that this structure is a half-buried pyramid. Maybe more. When our laborers clear away the vegetation and commence digging, we'll see."</div></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Yes, General Pettygree. Think what wonders we may find inside especially if the locals leave us alone. They will --- won't they? Are they still cross about things?"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6iJV94PMn5AbNnE0s6x5FRynZQtVzMSIa6elKVK6E7MbHRIY-e2e_0zv0Bs3ASECU_RxUxLvfZqfJfoCBV1kTE1hkPhFqNuFS1vIZzWUcBMP7qTC9bFPGRYcSpKwz2PeyuII8t4ncuX0/s2048/img_2521b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6iJV94PMn5AbNnE0s6x5FRynZQtVzMSIa6elKVK6E7MbHRIY-e2e_0zv0Bs3ASECU_RxUxLvfZqfJfoCBV1kTE1hkPhFqNuFS1vIZzWUcBMP7qTC9bFPGRYcSpKwz2PeyuII8t4ncuX0/w400-h268/img_2521b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">"Mary, my dear --- Abigail. We have time. How much I do not know. However, the Army has reported the entire region empty for months. Lieutenant Olley has seen nothing along the Blue Nile during his river patrols. Grandmaison has been out for days with the Lancers sending regular dispatches back to Gordon saying the same thing. Nothing will happen soon. We are safe."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX30PnYxlxp7TdaId-ypuYCce6rRoD8LmYylhA8KQrZSXgWutLX2p_YdEUdHdHtx6woFX5Jyh1Vj5AOf0PA0d0UKzYeqEYgUT2s9VpxcXh2zaSUjj_3z5srXV5s34JIYa-GN_2T3JNHcY/s3888/img_2525.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX30PnYxlxp7TdaId-ypuYCce6rRoD8LmYylhA8KQrZSXgWutLX2p_YdEUdHdHtx6woFX5Jyh1Vj5AOf0PA0d0UKzYeqEYgUT2s9VpxcXh2zaSUjj_3z5srXV5s34JIYa-GN_2T3JNHcY/w400-h400/img_2525.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Lieutenant Grandmaison's Lancer Troop</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ZyTEqXHQQDvwHo-MOqDA9t4plSxjrYbgTrf_bZA8zYzMDExtaia1Oe8qMX3lD36ASQXCM2ObzNwJEyOeP-sLZCIU9O51hskkPG7-guRqMz_1HfMFS85TbbuwixSBlFSPjd3UigbvqdI/s3888/img_2526.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ZyTEqXHQQDvwHo-MOqDA9t4plSxjrYbgTrf_bZA8zYzMDExtaia1Oe8qMX3lD36ASQXCM2ObzNwJEyOeP-sLZCIU9O51hskkPG7-guRqMz_1HfMFS85TbbuwixSBlFSPjd3UigbvqdI/w400-h400/img_2526.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Troop --- <b>Hah ALT!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Lads, we'll have to find another way back to Khartoum."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #f1c232;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #f1c232;">CLOSING REMARKS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(1) Jim P. (Der Alte Fritz), Chuck The Lucky, Earl K. and Bill P. (yours truly) have a 54mm Khartoum game planned. The preceding short story sets the stage.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(2) A lot of people need to get back to Khartoum.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(3) We hope you will look in again soon to find out who did. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><></span></div></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041377480802719591.post-74348686627508664952020-09-03T10:38:00.006-05:002020-09-04T21:41:35.041-05:00<span style="font-size: medium;">Date: 2 September 2020<br />Situation: Khartoum Stormed By Dervish<br />Location: East Wall<br />Rules: Batailles de l'Ancien Regime Colonial Adaptations</span><div><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">TEST GAME</span></b></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In recent months Jim P. (Der Alte Fritz) scratch-built 54mm Khartoum fortress walls and buildings for our future annual BIG Colonial game. By big we meant lots of 28mm miniatures on large table surfaces. We still have those but for this game we are using 54mms from Armies in Plastic, William Britains and John Jenkins Designs to:</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Play a game to move units, throw dice and be with pards.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Get Jim's new structures and our miniatures in a game.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Test rules and numbers of miniatures to use. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">4. Preparing for a larger game including a Relief Column.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHh4UWHYVxWOuXCBRoLk2ZpHNZ5jrwUoW5gxV6e4SYmH79VyL2ans5lRs542ol9APTVNCpt_6LVvt6CGtOq6AJ8Sc_7QE6cJ8sEpP66GBEFr1xz6MdsbO8xbz2PfkOu4qbk38OvxFSNSc/s2048/img_2506b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHh4UWHYVxWOuXCBRoLk2ZpHNZ5jrwUoW5gxV6e4SYmH79VyL2ans5lRs542ol9APTVNCpt_6LVvt6CGtOq6AJ8Sc_7QE6cJ8sEpP66GBEFr1xz6MdsbO8xbz2PfkOu4qbk38OvxFSNSc/w400-h266/img_2506b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Here They Come!</b></div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">132 of approximately 232 Dervish approach Khartoum.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Hadendowah: Four bands of 40 plus one group of 10 Rifles.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Dervish: One 60 man horde.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The ratio of Dervish to Imperials was roughly 4:1.</span><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqaNr3JVCKQ9i_YSKZT33KTMzxs3rbadcETRIKLZHuaCCexevnF7wsfirM2xrTYxr6A2We64SVhEM4L4Y48vPZBIUmb6DwJROHcPf1PWEOmIACaBB_PZCZY0jNsVN016fxShiULOGi7Zs/s3888/img_2507.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqaNr3JVCKQ9i_YSKZT33KTMzxs3rbadcETRIKLZHuaCCexevnF7wsfirM2xrTYxr6A2We64SVhEM4L4Y48vPZBIUmb6DwJROHcPf1PWEOmIACaBB_PZCZY0jNsVN016fxShiULOGi7Zs/w400-h400/img_2507.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Chuck The Lucky</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The cannon in the previous image did 'orrible execution on the left-most Hadendowah band and rifles causing them to halt and reconsider the future. The other one made it to the wall. If a unit suffers 10% loss due to fire in a turn, it needs to check to determine if it will carry on or fall back.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Ziu1XGmr0OiGQzn-3fJFR-8w1emsKFHF8tNeh4xwEm9CN5JN574-Oq5DWIfhnZm2HwSbnd5JlS1HF9DEiFmab_sZZXYoTVTpMFn9KDnWEj2fyD5iTqBsnWmioCJauF7wVvVQPJTK1xI/s3888/img_2508.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Ziu1XGmr0OiGQzn-3fJFR-8w1emsKFHF8tNeh4xwEm9CN5JN574-Oq5DWIfhnZm2HwSbnd5JlS1HF9DEiFmab_sZZXYoTVTpMFn9KDnWEj2fyD5iTqBsnWmioCJauF7wVvVQPJTK1xI/w400-h400/img_2508.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Jim P. (Der Alte Fritz)</span></b></div></b><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jim's Hadendowah and Dervish warriors are unstoppable. Ladders show their intent to scale the walls to storm the Sudanese capital and capture it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEtvLxjHtV-oFVq69A4QLv4VlX9Y9HCto8rpwtsfwXEJYJ9GeC7zhP6o5R3pKz69f2kFiuDn4rxZqfwIsptUK_isMGVyC8y1YZrStbMn2rvUj8RuNrFfAOtCvxwlWJPrpqlJG1RsNsW3M/s3888/img_2509.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEtvLxjHtV-oFVq69A4QLv4VlX9Y9HCto8rpwtsfwXEJYJ9GeC7zhP6o5R3pKz69f2kFiuDn4rxZqfwIsptUK_isMGVyC8y1YZrStbMn2rvUj8RuNrFfAOtCvxwlWJPrpqlJG1RsNsW3M/w400-h400/img_2509.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Natives move 18"/turn ignoring reductions when traversing light vegetation. Scenario design called for 3.5 turns to reach the wall which worked fine. It gave the Imperials time to fire.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0NSouGf-2t9ecdrArs0Jx1wr1c0ASwD-zGRf3yrCamdjaIqG0O1MDuPnWNjUBjudkna5G4V4kGQlErh0JLGQr9z_DInUSPQ7PkWRA34VRwloSml4pzexQeAb2TM6kOOwEwWl1W4fWtCc/s2048/img_2516b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0NSouGf-2t9ecdrArs0Jx1wr1c0ASwD-zGRf3yrCamdjaIqG0O1MDuPnWNjUBjudkna5G4V4kGQlErh0JLGQr9z_DInUSPQ7PkWRA34VRwloSml4pzexQeAb2TM6kOOwEwWl1W4fWtCc/w400-h400/img_2516b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Old School dynamics of single miniatures fighting single miniatures were in play. This enhanced individual performance and was a lot of fun. Remember Colour Sergeant Bourne in the motion picture ZULU in melee? That kind of thing.</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCOltJQ1Ao0YINEd53JHTjB4QmZHaIImT5jaIOOLOsJb9P4W4NOBMrTqxnz-joRPbBDgKDbGOt-GUMtxnnjSHuvz0eQyn00uB6ypg5s2yJMPP8WsrBD3vvEWgJ7m2tnUVKpC4NvuoCmhc/s3888/img_2510.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCOltJQ1Ao0YINEd53JHTjB4QmZHaIImT5jaIOOLOsJb9P4W4NOBMrTqxnz-joRPbBDgKDbGOt-GUMtxnnjSHuvz0eQyn00uB6ypg5s2yJMPP8WsrBD3vvEWgJ7m2tnUVKpC4NvuoCmhc/w400-h400/img_2510.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Scratch-built ladders wide and tall enough do the job.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Egyptian defenders failed to topple foreground ladders.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Defenders trying to topple a ladder were not allowed to fire.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Remember John Wayne and Fess Parker's Alamo movies?</div></span></div><div>'<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtX5R_KG9YmstGuyHJlcXyXGzQ4KqXJXkkgyV3feTPINNBHtBc2omCxDwszodODJ6GS1rEqVFBH3kanWmIVFgoDs-Gin2HMCtanLIcqAsc5DFaFMtmtiCTxxRn38WWk7RY4YkylHMEwro/s3888/img_2511.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtX5R_KG9YmstGuyHJlcXyXGzQ4KqXJXkkgyV3feTPINNBHtBc2omCxDwszodODJ6GS1rEqVFBH3kanWmIVFgoDs-Gin2HMCtanLIcqAsc5DFaFMtmtiCTxxRn38WWk7RY4YkylHMEwro/w400-h400/img_2511.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">This scene shows set and toppled ladders. The Dervish did not have enough movement left to mount ladder rungs.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUNdBQjAdnYLf9fBaFn7kB-8991MLc0RkZV_6uCcV_0iKPjZqjq-RIpe4kDrS2RN_J_7Cxcy3ZYWvqbK3-30b08UdN8ViHZr-FO0winQJvkS4EKCjyFfJKXPf0f6-_sdPzgbyYRQ_ofIo/s3888/img_2514.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUNdBQjAdnYLf9fBaFn7kB-8991MLc0RkZV_6uCcV_0iKPjZqjq-RIpe4kDrS2RN_J_7Cxcy3ZYWvqbK3-30b08UdN8ViHZr-FO0winQJvkS4EKCjyFfJKXPf0f6-_sdPzgbyYRQ_ofIo/w400-h400/img_2514.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Things don't look good for the Dervish for now.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjapgi3_k-wYUlW_j_7zjuKBDNjjV-W5wN2ARMP4qYN6buLEE0RtqMDYZlBngqC16wiuSNxj-8GSOwj6eyhVAz1M7aDtRhmpymZVL6nZlRnXCI5TOK5G-A4sgjNjhQq93Cv8e3YPp3TeDg/s3888/img_2512.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjapgi3_k-wYUlW_j_7zjuKBDNjjV-W5wN2ARMP4qYN6buLEE0RtqMDYZlBngqC16wiuSNxj-8GSOwj6eyhVAz1M7aDtRhmpymZVL6nZlRnXCI5TOK5G-A4sgjNjhQq93Cv8e3YPp3TeDg/w400-h400/img_2512.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">However, circumstances changed.</span></div></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxo-i9R8YRlu0KYUllvxwOe9csabosnf1zXiClzMR6eqpJg1K4x-w4ottqevuSEPLRRo2H0J_q20JX0-CkAF9i-7AAifEBR9bKV4rLjPzi8fUNRBeYkzhRxCxly1upslHhtTgeg4rMdDQ/s3888/img_2513.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxo-i9R8YRlu0KYUllvxwOe9csabosnf1zXiClzMR6eqpJg1K4x-w4ottqevuSEPLRRo2H0J_q20JX0-CkAF9i-7AAifEBR9bKV4rLjPzi8fUNRBeYkzhRxCxly1upslHhtTgeg4rMdDQ/w400-h400/img_2513.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Improving for the Dervishes.</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn8Sf38lMk4Rez_0JBS6bUcWYSWZLCPihcI2I2XISYU6PG7vQTzwBocVYUnxsYrP_SF4K4hve68pM7thp0oX_Ql0e1NhrDZC3pva-KeFbfjA0s1l5PRiE6Fr4TOilCT7x18zFcBgsBlIU/s3888/img_2515.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn8Sf38lMk4Rez_0JBS6bUcWYSWZLCPihcI2I2XISYU6PG7vQTzwBocVYUnxsYrP_SF4K4hve68pM7thp0oX_Ql0e1NhrDZC3pva-KeFbfjA0s1l5PRiE6Fr4TOilCT7x18zFcBgsBlIU/w400-h400/img_2515.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Right wall section cleared by the Dervish.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ditto for the left wall section not shown.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Egyptian reserves and wall survivors form up to fire.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Game over.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>CLOSING REMARKS</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Three turns each consisting of three melee rounds were played to the last photo. It was enough to achieve a conclusion; good for the scenario. This was a two-hour game. Seven turns methinks. Huzzah! --- BTW: Ladder games are a ton of fun.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Modifications under consideration:</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">(a) Toppling ladders was too hard needing 1D6 = 6.</span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(b) Once the scrum starts, individual fire will be allowed rather than using charts. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2D6 = 7-12 will be a hit with a following saving throw.</span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Virus social distancing found the three of us separated usually by 4-8'. According to the most recently revised stats from the US Center for Disease Control, under 10,000 Americans regretfully died directly from Covid 19. The other approximately 160,000 (94%) died because on average they had 2.5 other serious medical diseases or conditions when they contracted Covid 19. A huge proportion were in the state of New York and in New York City where Covid patients were wrongly placed in vulnerable nursing homes. A very large number were elderly. Anyhow the above is current as of the first week of September 2020. Draw your own conclusions and remember what Pontious Pilate asked, "What is truth?" I don't think any of us fully know what is real and unreal about all this including me. However, I'm not as anxious as I was in June. </span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Will I go to a hobby convention in 2020? No.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Will I continue hosting occasional games with low numbers of friends using social distancing? Yes. How about former numbers of 7-14 friends? Probably not until 2021.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some friends are out for all of 2020. I respect that decision. They have serious health issues. We miss them naturally but fully understand.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4. Best of luck and prayers for all of my readers.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">5. Extra Photos from Jim.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeeeMdqW0DlEFS7HZKn7swyvf8oSrY06pfbo6w_mGwsfqqRpLtTDSbYvemacM5-fK0E8vb68ZMx8M4A6r9Vn9nCJByrfYCC-R3nN4yxIwCtCW9zUvcO8x1LuGVRsRwDgDfMItHqq_hMa4/s1280/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeeeMdqW0DlEFS7HZKn7swyvf8oSrY06pfbo6w_mGwsfqqRpLtTDSbYvemacM5-fK0E8vb68ZMx8M4A6r9Vn9nCJByrfYCC-R3nN4yxIwCtCW9zUvcO8x1LuGVRsRwDgDfMItHqq_hMa4/w400-h300/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuqCriSbRQLOZdk4xb1yzmApvnsJLO2LTvQmnf-lHuRuyiv5YvAIBS6S0I3_Zn4n-MsBFuYUZOwZXHzWun6G2i78VQl7y2WnZVMnhYo_XbNMe-VzZqGR3PvktsVjOk01Q-iKgCqsxg89M/s1062/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPTIBqcXI9Kbtk4EIG4-FOCHj3U7gUBsIR-2MJAt5uy7ZAT4cJpbDzn3uVPTftfmPIcxk4gT5bzF6tnBrjCsHMsPBjMxrS9xNsClweNxV5qU3S_vVLAlh8j0AfxTTvPPcr3UlTKGKz7qM/s3888/img_2494.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPTIBqcXI9Kbtk4EIG4-FOCHj3U7gUBsIR-2MJAt5uy7ZAT4cJpbDzn3uVPTftfmPIcxk4gT5bzF6tnBrjCsHMsPBjMxrS9xNsClweNxV5qU3S_vVLAlh8j0AfxTTvPPcr3UlTKGKz7qM/w410-h410/img_2494.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Look Tenent Grandmaison, the Hadendowah."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>"Where away Kassim?</span>"</span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD-ienOjCKlrI5CIUONW8Ixl6_KG3LY9jo1KkrhwnjWt1joYOb3gKZuJmTnUAVNlIzdvQO93e9mhO5PHNk-Wd-Eg8-MYVgYiyzBJtxH2Nre1nCdIhsbp3snA1scpDC3dVPJLDhHMUeDQU/s3888/img_2498.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD-ienOjCKlrI5CIUONW8Ixl6_KG3LY9jo1KkrhwnjWt1joYOb3gKZuJmTnUAVNlIzdvQO93e9mhO5PHNk-Wd-Eg8-MYVgYiyzBJtxH2Nre1nCdIhsbp3snA1scpDC3dVPJLDhHMUeDQU/w410-h410/img_2498.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"There Sir!"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Not too many, I'm thinking."</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"There will be more Tenent."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipIaYZ5pLg25pZMmM3I54JLqo8kVwBBJ30b3NJJvp55BLCWpR9-OE6LoFJHuAJWN1sOcBJs1a-KKvIHQNiBZuV8ELTdxKZ2fDLfVY7eCrkk9SwA8IGXUUygProG3vLKN7WmsUYzpxQhr0/s3888/img_2499.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipIaYZ5pLg25pZMmM3I54JLqo8kVwBBJ30b3NJJvp55BLCWpR9-OE6LoFJHuAJWN1sOcBJs1a-KKvIHQNiBZuV8ELTdxKZ2fDLfVY7eCrkk9SwA8IGXUUygProG3vLKN7WmsUYzpxQhr0/w410-h410/img_2499.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">"100 maybe?"</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-xglKL9JMsa8ykd0gQDPu5_qlp8GxA55u5lMiRP193-8R3E-b6Yf-p9UUx33rEFzHOzWClcyI07jkhF2KOd3DmolMxGBt8t_7nABABAS1bgirPVom3NjdMUb6oBgII1bMqueh13Hnq_w/s3888/img_2496.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-xglKL9JMsa8ykd0gQDPu5_qlp8GxA55u5lMiRP193-8R3E-b6Yf-p9UUx33rEFzHOzWClcyI07jkhF2KOd3DmolMxGBt8t_7nABABAS1bgirPVom3NjdMUb6oBgII1bMqueh13Hnq_w/w410-h410/img_2496.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">"Deuced inconvenient they arrive now"</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzBppRLi5kyxvO14M8XPAWlg36qNSBaciVHfJAVRJxFZN7AP3m6NXOvf1PdwCxJc0H75q0kWaVxWM43S30eT4RxpqOXja3x6fHe3YMan001P1PqOU78XJfbTersdT3kZYPJOoGH9Mxrq0/s2048/img_2496b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2048" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzBppRLi5kyxvO14M8XPAWlg36qNSBaciVHfJAVRJxFZN7AP3m6NXOvf1PdwCxJc0H75q0kWaVxWM43S30eT4RxpqOXja3x6fHe3YMan001P1PqOU78XJfbTersdT3kZYPJOoGH9Mxrq0/w410-h274/img_2496b.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"We've got to warn General Gordon post haste." </span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ9U9TvE9D_4HUfgZaNSig4efvtd2Z38AZoyXCzR9aVK9dTH9rTb34yg-gl6mKAxb5xENkKWi1he7rqt8EiuH3wzyrMJphTBCnF2lVPl0GuHkfOWUwBFFVD1rfXGTlTgMgyc_2vmLR9RM/s3888/img_2500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ9U9TvE9D_4HUfgZaNSig4efvtd2Z38AZoyXCzR9aVK9dTH9rTb34yg-gl6mKAxb5xENkKWi1he7rqt8EiuH3wzyrMJphTBCnF2lVPl0GuHkfOWUwBFFVD1rfXGTlTgMgyc_2vmLR9RM/w410-h410/img_2500.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigpn-wElxv_hLkql23qWlW_mu5cyK0N5SeQ8jcsJFw94RrJ2qbIcKqXClUJY7LOjVPD0xhhxbz5pEtU-cafUz4eiyec_WKsbcJmpWHWgI6gYeSeuZXrp11ajzBdk862_JGd2J9rRpqYUU/s3888/img_2501.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigpn-wElxv_hLkql23qWlW_mu5cyK0N5SeQ8jcsJFw94RrJ2qbIcKqXClUJY7LOjVPD0xhhxbz5pEtU-cafUz4eiyec_WKsbcJmpWHWgI6gYeSeuZXrp11ajzBdk862_JGd2J9rRpqYUU/w410-h410/img_2501.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">A game is afoot.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">> <</span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Galliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258909398832285314noreply@blogger.com5