The commanding officer of the troops who are stationed near La Chodrelle when Robert Ross passes through with the large number of horses that he has freed from the Military Compound. After Robert allegedly kills Mickle’s soldier, Private Cassles (who tries to prevent Robert from passing), the C.F.A. assigns Mickle the duty of capturing him. Mickle finds Robert and the horses in an abandoned farmyard and the orders his men to set fire to the barn in order to smoke him out, ultimately trapping him and the animals in the flaming building. Robert is badly disfigured by the fire, and all of the horses perish.
Major Mickle Quotes in The Wars
The The Wars quotes below are all either spoken by Major Mickle or refer to Major Mickle. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 5, Chapter 13
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Robert called out very distinctly (and there are twenty witnesses to this): “We shall not be taken.”
It was the “we” that doomed him. To Mickle, it signified that Robert had an accomplice. Maybe more than one. Mickle thought he knew how to get “them” out.
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Major Mickle Quotes in The Wars
The The Wars quotes below are all either spoken by Major Mickle or refer to Major Mickle. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 5, Chapter 13
Quotes
Robert called out very distinctly (and there are twenty witnesses to this): “We shall not be taken.”
It was the “we” that doomed him. To Mickle, it signified that Robert had an accomplice. Maybe more than one. Mickle thought he knew how to get “them” out.
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