Picketting

The town is ſurrounded with pickettings, and guarded by forts on the outſide.

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And another scum had come to the top of the brew—foreign mercenaries, like the terrible Hessians who perpetrated the torture of the pitch cap, the pickettings, the half-hangings—men who shot in the back.

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As the news of the attack and arrests spread, protest meetings, demonstrations and pickettings took place in various districts.

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