The Fishguard Invasion by the French in 1797

Carmarthen, some, for the present, only as far as Fishguard. Their number (sixteen hundred, without stragglers who dropped in later) taxed the resources of this thinly inhabited country

now beheld the end of this strange scene of the bloodless surrender of sixteen hundred men to a very in

as not the woman to jeer a fallen foe, so she had remained quie

g, master?" asked t

now," said he, with a sort of groan as he thought of

und to be topsy-turvy, sir, and a gentleman c

oo drunk to know they've capitulated. And some of the officers who wer

kitchen belonged to her, and it went to her heart to think of the damage done. She could have no peace till she could begin to repai

air sex; indeed, even in after years I doubt if I ever quite succeeded in fathoming their method of reasoning. However, it is quite certain that as Nancy permitted it Davy was quite content to go wherever she did, and he gave her and me also a seat in his cart. I went too, for I thought that i

inning face of Llewellyn, about whom Nancy and I had had many an uneasy thought. He told us that his captors had not ill-treated him beyond making him work for them, that they had kept a sharp eye on him for a day and two nights and then he had managed to

ng, tail-wagging-absolutely wild with delight at the recovery of their own master.

you. I presume you a

. Down, Gelert

throughout Wales and even a good deal further with wooden swords. That it had been a great disappointment to him to find this was not the case, that it had also been a source of a

ourse, which happily I was able to understand, for G

g as if petrified, with her arm stretched out and her hand pointing towards a man who stood a few yards from her-apparently one of the stragglers among the French soldiers, for

ed your own people to strangers. Uch a fi,

ncy?" suggested Davy, read

him go to gaol with his fri

ot even heard of the surrender; had he done so he would hardly have come back to Trehow

sullenly, "you drove me away fro

l, and to run off to France, and to fetch back foreigners here-showing t

ticular, you've taken up with a s

ok a step nearer to Davy and pl

isn't a traitor. I'd have thought nothing of the horse or the gaol-but to betray your own people to st

bhor giving evidence in a court of justice, Nancy turned her back on the traitor at once and for ever,

three days' absence, at the same hour as when she had quitted it, Nan

h day of February, 1797; and so ended in pain and tribulation t

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