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" I awoke. Sunday morning. It was full dawn, not daylight. A discharge of musketry — then a round from the bugle — the command 'forward' — and another discharge of musketry was sharply kept on by the red-coats (some 300 strong) advancing on the gully... "
The Eureka Stockade: The Consequence of Some Pirates Wanting on Quarter-deck ... - Page 71
by Raffaello Carboni - 1855 - 126 pages
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The History of Ballarat: From the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time

William Bramwell Withers - Ballarat (Vic.) - 1887 - 474 pages
...description of the attack on the Stockade :— Remember this Sabbath Day (3rd Dectmbtr) to Keep it Holy. — I awoke. Sunday morning. It was full dawn, not daylight....minutes. The shots whizzed by my tent. I jumped out off the stretcher and rushed to my chimney facing the Stockade. The forces within could not muster...
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The History of Ballarat: From the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time

William Bramwell Withers - Ballarat (Vic.) - 1887 - 474 pages
...gully west of the Stockade, for a couple of minutes. The shots whizzed by my tent. I jumped out off the stretcher and rushed to my chimney facing the Stockade. The forces within could not muster above 150 diggers. The shepherd's holes inside the lower part of the Stockade had...
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