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War News, 1896 November 13 - 1896-11-13

WAR, NEWS.

Pub by War News Pub Co Picnic City B.C. Nov 13 1896. Price 5¢

The First Fighting

Six days firing on Forest Continent. Rock Island sides with Big Continent. Seven thousand men killed, and three thousand men wounded.

[First Column] Nov 13 1896. The greatest battle ever known in the history of the world ended yesterday and today the wounded are being brought in to the hospitals from the last days of fighting.

As near as can be estimated two thousand B.C. [Big Continent] soldiers are killed and two thousand wounded. Rock Island did not suffer as much loss as they did not bear the brunt of the battle and only one thousand were killed and one thousand wounded.

Two thousand Long Continent men were killed and two thousand R. C. were killed also while General Washington’s Chipewa men were not hit although they bore an important part in defending the military stores[?] at Dugout.

The morning of November 5th dawned bright and clear. The sun rose resplendent above a scene of imposing grandeur and terrible majesty and shone on armies full two hundred and twenty-five thousand strong encamped on the field of battle.

A battle has been impending for several days and Big Continents and Rock Islands army were in position in Fort Independence. Early in the morning of Nov 6 the firing began. Fifty thousand R.C. troops were encamped [illegible] to the south of Fort Independence and at six o’clock the first cannon was fired from the wooded summit of an eminence called Brownell Hill.

The ball fell [illegible] and produced a long running[?] through the turf until it stopped in a rocky knoll. [Illegible] the [...] cannons were at fault for not a shell struck the fort although all incessant fire was kept up during the firing in of R-Con every ten minutes.

[Second Column] Twenty thousand Chipewa soldiers arrived at eleven o’clock and at two P.M. fifty thousand B.C. troops came marching into position in the terrible valley of the Duneloom [?] river and a battery of long [...] guns under [...] on tabletop, an eminence south of Allenstown so that that in shooting at Fort Independence, the [illegible] passed Alanancie over the city.

Occasionaly, a shot would fall above the houses but not much harm was done except as two balls passed through the presidents private residence on the outskirts of Allenstown, and one other house was somewhat damaged.

The Round Continent troops [illegible] moved their position to the [...] valley in junction with Long Continent and until darkness fell a steady bombardment was kept up.

During the day Ethan Allen and Fred Warrington talking in the most friendly manner [...] in the round tower that rised from the [...] east of the turf and watched the battle as it progressed.

Only a few shots were fired from Fort Independence during the first day as the Long and Round Continent fire did not seem very dangerous and Ethan Allen did not want to waste any more ammunition than was neccessary [sic] as it was precious.

At night-fall the firing ceased and the Long and Round Continent forces were removed to the coast where transporters conveyed them to Atwood a city on the coast of Chipewa.

At Dugout the stores of ammunition had been collected and here twenty thousand Chipewa soldiers were stationed in the barracks which were [illegible] the night, while the Long and Round Continent armies moved again towards New Poplington.

After sunset, Ethan Allen moved his sixty thousand B.C. troops into
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