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During the siege of Bryan's Station, Kentucky, August 16, 1782, Nicholas / Tomlinson and Thomas Bell, two inhabitants of the Fort, undertook to / ride through the besieging Indian and Tory lines to Lexington, Ky., for / aid. It happened also during this siege that the pioneer women of the / Fort, when the water supply was exhausted, heroically carried water from / a spring, at a considerable distance outside the palisades of the / Station, to its inmates, under the very guns of the enemy.
/ With saddles girt and reins held fast, / Our rifles well in front, at last / Tom Bell and I were mounted. / The gate swung wide. We said, "Good-bye. " / No time for talk had Bell and I. / One said, "God speed! " another, "Fly! " / Then out we galloped. Live or die, / We felt each moment counted.