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VALENCIENNES

(1793)

By Corporal Tullidge. See "The Trumpet-Major"

In Memory of S. C. (Pensioner). Died 184-

WE trenched, we trumpeted and drummed,
And from our mortars tons of iron hummed
Ath'art the ditch, the month we bombed
The Town o' Valencieën.

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