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Cosmic Tales, v. 2, issue 1, Summer 1939

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30            COSMIC TALES

carrying with him the blessing of Greek civilization...."
Their first encounter was with the fierce Texas Comanches, but as the Spaniard had not yet brot the horse to America, they weren't so fierce, and for the greater part of them, the mere sound of the guns was enough to enslave them, had it been so desired.... The force, augmented by the Comances, next passed westward into New Mexico, but fot not battles there but some brushes with outlying units of Navajoes, easily overcome. The conquest of this region was not made very thoroly, so the isolated section where dwelt the mound-builders and Fantasy-News, Volume 3, was missed entirely. Speer turned south a little to locate Carlsbad Caverns, for curiosity, and then, with this flank cleared, turned east toward the Sabine and Louisiana. He was somewhat surprised to find the Gulf of Mexico where they should have been--but of course, the alluvial filling in of that country hadn't taken place yet. Was it four or eight years a mile that the delta grew in his own time? No matter; too many variables to be able to figure much from that. With more recruits from tribes overcome, which now comprised an infantry regiment, he turned down the Gulf coast of Texas, thru the lovely land of the Spanish Moss. They passed Galvenston Bay, they passed the site of Corpus Christi, they passed the Rio Grande, and they were in the land of the Mayas, a power to be reckoned with.
Now indeed his reading of the methods of Lee, Epaminondas, Caesar, Temujin, Napoleon, Jackson, Timur, and the other military greats stood him in good stead. At the critical phase of the three days' battle, his formation was the Theban line, with a center and left little more than an army in effigy, while much of his infantry and all his cavalry was massed on the right for a standard sweep like the Mongols', which crashed thru the Mayan left and turned upon the flank of its main body. For a time things were serious as the Mexicans broke thru the center and left of Speer's army, but acting on the instructions given in the long trek down the Texas coast, his generals of that force formed the men, plus the reserves, in Roman squares which saved themselves and kept many of the Mayans engaged until the battle elsewhere was worn.
Mounted now on beasts of burden domesticated by the Mayans, and armed with weapons of a crude steel send down from Wilson's works in the Memphis, Oklahoma area, they moved down the continental backbone in smaller units, subjugating the various savage tribes of Central America. Meanwhile, the Incas, despite the poor communications between the two continents, had heard of the beating of the Mayas and decided it advisable to send an army up to hold the Isthmus of Panama at its narrow point, should that be necessary. Speer might have defeated them in frontal attack, but preferred to take half his infantry around to their rear on rude rafts, sufficiently shaped to make way with the sails of piecedskins and Mayan cloth, landing them on the South American coast and occupying a rather large area. One of the natives he had brot up to him and told him, in the pidgin tongue understood thruout the middle Americas, "Go to the Inca chief and tell him that the army at his front, armed with terrible weapons, is alone able to defeat him; but that I have also a force at his rear likewise capable of vanquishing him alone. Say that if Incaland surrenders, I will ask absolute power to intervene in such matters as I choose, but the power will be used sparingly, and they may keep their old customs - if they wish." He made the native repeat it to be sure he had it straight, then sent him off. 
The Inca commander chose to fight, but before the battle had...

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30 COSMIC TALES carrying with him the blessing of Greek civilization...." Their first encounter was with the fierce Texas Comanches, but as the Spaniard had not yet brot the horse to America, they weren't so fierce, and for the greater part of them, the mere sound of the guns was enough to enslave them, had it been so desired.... The force, augmented by the Comances, next passed westward into New Mexico, but fot not battles there but some brushes with outlying units of Navajoes, easily overcome. The conquest of this region was not made very thoroly, so the isolated section where dwelt the mound-builders and Fantasy-News, Volume 3, was missed entirely. Speer turned south a little to locate Carlsbad Caverns, for curiosity, and then, with this flank cleared, turned east toward the Sabine and Louisiana. He was somewhat surprised to find the Gulf of Mexico where they should have been--but of course, the alluvial filling in of that country hadn't taken place yet. Was it four or eight years a mile that the delta grew in his own time? No matter; too many variables to be able to figure much from that. With more recruits from tribes overcome, which now comprised an infantry regiment, he turned down the Gulf coast of Texas, thru the lovely land of the Spanish Moss. They passed Galvenston Bay, they passed the site of Corpus Christi, they passed the Rio Grande, and they were in the land of the Mayas, a power to be reckoned with. Now indeed his reading of the methods of Lee, Epaminondas, Caesar, Temujin, Napoleon, Jackson, Timur, and the other military greats stood him in good stead. At the critical phase of the three days' battle, his formation was the Theban line, with a center and left little more than an army in effigy, while much of his infantry and all his cavalry was massed on the right for a standard sweep like the Mongols', which crashed thru the Mayan left and turned upon the flank of its main body. For a time things were serious as the Mexicans broke thru the center and left of Speer's army, but acting on the instructions given in the long trek down the Texas coast, his generals of that force formed the men, plus the reserves, in Roman squares which saved themselves and kept many of the Mayans engaged until the battle elsewhere was worn. Mounted now on beasts of burden domesticated by the Mayans, and armed with weapons of a crude steel send down from Wilson's works in the Memphis, Oklahoma area, they moved down the continental backbone in smaller units, subjugating the various savage tribes of Central America. Meanwhile, the Incas, despite the poor communications between the two continents, had heard of the beating of the Mayas and decided it advisable to send an army up to hold the Isthmus of Panama at its narrow point, should that be necessary. Speer might have defeated them in frontal attack, but preferred to take half his infantry around to their rear on rude rafts, sufficiently shaped to make way with the sails of piecedskins and Mayan cloth, landing them on the South American coast and occupying a rather large area. One of the natives he had brot up to him and told him, in the pidgin tongue understood thruout the middle Americas, "Go to the Inca chief and tell him that the army at his front, armed with terrible weapons, is alone able to defeat him; but that I have also a force at his rear likewise capable of vanquishing him alone. Say that if Incaland surrenders, I will ask absolute power to intervene in such matters as I choose, but the power will be used sparingly, and they may keep their old customs - if they wish." He made the native repeat it to be sure he had it straight, then sent him off. The Inca commander chose to fight, but before the battle had...