Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1880 — An Adroit Swordsman. [ARTICLE]

An Adroit Swordsman.

Pulaski, as is well known, was as adroit a swordsman as he was perfect in horsemanship, and bs ever rode a powerful and fleet charger. Daring the retreat of the American army through New Jersey, in the darkest hour of oar ns* ional adversity, Pulaski was, with a small party of horsemen, panned by a party of British cavalry, the leader ot which was as good a horseman and mounted nearly at well as Pulaski. Pulaski rode in the rear of his detachment, and the British captain in advance of those he commanded. The morning ban was shining brightly, casting oblique shadows, and as the pnrsuec party entered a long, narrow lane Pulaski, having satisfied himself of the superior ■peed and command of his hone over that of his pursuer, slackened his pace and kept his hone to the side of the lane farthest from the sun. The punning officer came up in not haste, hit swore elevated so as to make the decisive cat upon Pajsski as soon as he could reach him. Pulaski rode gs though he heard not the advance upon him—vCt he kept his eyes fixed warily upon the ground on the side of his hone toward the sun on his right. As soon as he saw the shadow of his panaer’s horse gain upon him, and fonnd that the hone’s head, by the shadow, had gained about half the fength of his own hone’s body he gave the Budaen sword-cut out of St. George,with his powerful apm, and he saw the decapitated head of the English officer follow the stroke. HU mathematics!] eye hud meaepreq the distance by the position of the shadow so accurately, and bU position giving a long back reach to hU right arm, while the cross stroke of his pursuer must have been made at a much shorter distance to haye taken effect, tpat the punning officer lost his head before he suspected that his proximity was known, or That a blow was meditated-