| Dec 13 |
An officer who led the Parliamentarian attack on the
breach in the walls of Winchester recalls the difficulty of climbing 'the
exceeding high and steep passage to it, so steep that we had no other
way to get up but to creep on our hands and knees, from the bottom to
the top as high as most houses, the enemy all the while playing with
their musqueteers upon us, but slew but three men in our getting up and
one of our Captain's that followed me as he was entering the breach
after I had led in some twenty men. The bullets all this while flew
thick about us, yet I, bless God I had not the least hurt'. |
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