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"I think we should not wait for them to punish us for our first success.
I think we should follow up our little victory, and attack the
republicans, at Beauprieu, perhaps, or at Cholet; we should so teach our
men to fight, teach them to garrison and protect their own towns, and
then, perhaps, before very long, we might fly at higher game; we might
endeavour to drive these wolves from their own strong places; from
Angers perhaps, or Nantes, or better still, from Saumur."
"Why Saumur, especially," said Henri; "surely Nantes would be a better
mark than Saumur; besides Saumur is a perfect fortress, walled on all
sides, almost impregnable; whereas Nantes is not fortified at all.
Saumur is reckoned the strongest town in the south of France; it is the
only fortified town in Anjou, Poitou, Tourraine or Southern Britanny."
"That is just the reason, my friend," said Cathelineau, now reassured
by his own enthusiasm, and by his intense anxiety on the subject, "that
is the very reason why Saumur should be our aim.


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