... on the 20th September, and that the Russian army would commence its retreat on the 28th of October, and first of all would evacuate Adrianople, the Porte having en- gaged by that time to make the first payment of the commercial indemnity. At the second ...

... by assault ere they could obtain a lodgment. They knew, also, that their comrades had been entrapped into the town at the Flanders' Gate, and there suddenly and treacherously as- sailed, not with the usual weapons of war, but with vitriol, lime, pepper ...