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| 32 | 71 | I View more quotes about later">later learned from some of my men who followed them, keeping apprised of their movements, that their plea to be taken aboard the fleet's ships was refused. |
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| 32 | 68 | The center of the column was shattered and, in moments, as corsairs fled, the road was empty save for dust, bodies, and loot bags. |
| 32 | 69 | Interestingly, neither the first third of the column nor the last third of the column came to the relief of their beleaguered fellows. |
| 32 | 70 | The last third of the column and some remnants of the broken center hurried back to the beach, where the corsair fleet lay to, some forty or so yards offshore. |
| 32 | 71 | I later learned from some of my men who followed them, keeping apprised of their movements, that their plea to be taken aboard the fleet's ships was refused. |
| 32 | 72 | Subsequently they dug, largely with their helmets, a semicircular trench with the sea at their backs. |
| 32 | 73 | This trench was walled toward the land by the dislodged sand and surmounted by a shield wall. |
| 32 | 74 | The openness of the broad beach would deny cover to archers and we would not choose to attack in force as that would risk our men unduly, storming a fortified position, and might well reveal the paucity of our numbers. |