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Identifier: battlesofninetee01forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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attisat the end of tl:e Hougoumont avenue. Here they met Rosss company of the 51st,who killed eight men and twelve horses, therest—about sixty—surrendering again. One artilleryman was seen, under his gun,dodging a French trooper, who tried to reachhim with his long sword. BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 64 After some moments the cuirassiers horsewas shot, and the gunner, sallying out, hit himover the head with his rammer, and packed himoff to the rear with a parting kick. The ridge was once more cleared, and was constant firing still at Hougoumont and LaHaye Sainte, when the trumpets sounded again,and with scvcnty-scvcn squadrons, including thecavalry of the Guard, France returned to thecharge. Every arm of the mounted service was represented in thisattack, the beautyand brilliancy ofthe uniforms baf-fling description.Carabiniers. white-coated, with brasscuirasses and red-crested helmets ;Lancers, Dragoons,and Chasseurs in.green, with facingsof every hue ; theRed Lancers of the
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DEFENCE OF LA HAVE SAINTE BY THE GERMANLEGION (/. 66). Mercers battery brought into the front line. Thewhole field was now littered with corpses andaccoutrements. Gaily-dressed trumpeters, andofficers on whose breasts hung crosses of theLegion of Honour, lay bleeding in the barleyamong hundreds of dead and wounded horses.Here a lancer in green and light blue, there aheap of cuirassiers of the ist Regiment, mowndown by grape shot; yonder a chasseur-a-chcval^propped against his charger, while swords andcuirasses were almost as numerous as the stalksof corn. All the slope was torn and trampled ; flieswere busy in the now loathsome hollows ; there Guard, clad in scarletfrom head to heel, andNapoleons own favourite Chasseurs-a-cheval, wdth hussar caps and redpelisses, richly braided with orange k.ce ; tallbearskinned Horse Grenadiers, with white facingsto their blue coats ; the Cuirassiers, dark andsombre looking ; the high felt shakoes of theHussars—it was as though a flower garden in a

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