His hopes of a crown faded rapidly, and when the army reached Lisbon it had dwindled to not much more than four thousand effective men-the rest being dead of dysentery, or on the sick-list from imprudence in eating and drinking-while they found that they had made an unfortunate omission in their machinery for assailing the capital, having not a single Fieldpiece in the whole army.
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A Mexican Fieldpiece, covered by a breastwork, raked the causeway from end to end, while from the heights of Chapultepec cannon of large calibre poured down a destructive fire.
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The volunteers-Captain Gillespie's command-pressed forward; and by taking advantage of the neighboring shelter they drove the enemy and compelled him to abandon his Fieldpiece; but before it could be reached and taken possession of, Captain Mervine gave orders to withdraw.
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