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- in collecting branches of trees and other things, for the purpose of
- making an abatis to block up the road between that and the farmhouse,
- and soon completed one, which we thought looked sufficiently formidable
- to keep out the whole of the French cavalry; but it was put to the proof
- sooner than we expected, by a troop of our own light dragoons, who,
- having occasion to gallop through, astonished us not a little by
- clearing away every stick of it. We had just time to replace the
- scattered branches, when the whole of the enemy's artillery opened, and
- their countless columns began to advance under cover of it.
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