Their main hope now was in a fortification which they had been constructing inside the Brussels gate-a Demilune of considerable strength.
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As it was sixty feet wide and as many deep, and lay directly beneath the guns of the new Demilune, the enterprise was sufficiently hazardous.
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Alexander, unharmed, as by a miracle, never left the spot till the bridge had been constructed, and till ten great guns had been carried across it, and pointed against the Demilune.
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