By 10:30 that night the completion of the movement was signalised by a terrific explosion, as the French colonials blew up one of the stone bridges over which they had withdrawn.
""And they thought we wouldn't fight""
Floyd Gibbons
The recollection of men who have signalised themselves by great thoughts or great deeds, seems as if to create for the time a purer atmosphere around us: and we feel as if our aims and purposes were unconsciously elevated.
"Character"
Samuel Smiles
The following year was signalised by a similar execution at which Sargon himself deigned to preside in person.
"History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 7 (of 12)"
G. Maspero