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| ‘"I propose... that we surprise the military camp, before the dawn -
they are only two hundert and fifty men. We are five hundert, and if we
pour in to the Camp, and attack the soldaten, while only the Guard is
awake, we shall get to close quarters, and our revolvers will be as gut as
rifles."
Peter Waller rather favoured the military German’s plan, and there is
no doubt that if it had been carried out, the 40th would have been
overpowered; and, as nothing succeeds like success, the diggers of the
district from Clunes and Creswick would have flocked to fight under the
successful Southern Cross; but delay always seems the safer plan at the
beginning of a campaign, so the night patrol went out, and foraged for
rifles, revolvers, powder and shot, bread, meat, everything that a
publican or storekeeper would give in return for an I.O.U.’
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ImageTitle: Pistol used by Peter Lalor at the Eureka Stockade |
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Return to Eureka Slaughter 3rd December
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