The Spanish Farm
1st Edition
Published on 3. February 2024
150 pages
978-3-98973-184-4 (ISBN)
Description
Excerpt: A farmer stood watching a battalion of infantry filing into his pasture. A queerer mixture of humanity could not have been imagined. The farmer wore a Dutch cap, spoke Flemish by preference, but could only write French. His farm was called Ferme l?Espagnole?The Spanish Farm?and stood on French soil. The soldiers were the usual English mixture?semi-skilled townsmen, a number of agricultural and other laborers, fewer still of seafaring and waterside folk, and a sprinkling of miners and shepherds, with one or two regulars.
