Jack Steel Adventure Series Books 1-3 by Iain Gale

Author:Iain Gale [Iain Gale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Out on the water, as Forbes had envisaged, the artillerymen on temporary transfer from the army to the bombships were putting the final touches to their charges. The mortars lay ready and the fuses had been cut to what the gunners reckoned was the correct length to allow them to land in the town before they burnt down through their cases to the explosive charge within.

The men-of-war, the forty- and sixty-gunners in Admiral Fairborne’s squadron had drawn as close as they could to the shore and the gunners of ten vessels now stood ready by the open portholes. Twenty guns apiece were loaded: ten broadsides’ worth and although their shot would not do anything like the damage of the bombships’ weoponry, much of it falling out of range, their combined impact was sure to be terrifying.

And Steel knew that was what Marlborough must be hoping for at this moment. That the terror instilled by this tumultuous barrage would be enough to make the people of Ostend, or at least the garrison, open the gates without further struggle, without further bloodshed. And Steel too prayed to himself that it would happen and that their entry into the town would be clean and bloodless. But deep within he knew that his prayers would not be answered.

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