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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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! which in realitv was never said. But what-ever the wordwas, they doup, andthey do atem ; andagain it isbayonet tobavonet, andman to man. One Welshgiant, namedHughes, sixfeet seveninches inheight, is seento knock overa dozen of theOld Guardsingle handed ;• the red-coats and the blue-coats mingle for a moment andthe blue-coats melt awa^-. The second column, a little behind the other,is in good order : it has suffered less from thecannonade, and is full of fire and fury ; but soalso are our 52nd lads, who advance down theslope with three tremendous cheers. Colborne is leading, and when they get abreastof the column he cries— Halt ! Mark time ! The men touch in to their left, and regain theirdressing ; Colbornes horse is shot, and hecomes forward wiping his mouth with a whitehandkerchief, still wearing Ensign Leekes blueboat-cloak. Right shoulders forward ! The regiment swings round, and, four deep,faces the columns flank two hundred 3ardsaway. Forward, 52nd—charge I and the Foot
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BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Guards, who are backonthe ridge again, beholda noble spectacle. The crash is terrific ; the Imperial phalanx istaken in flaillv The contest is fierce, but it issoon over. Brave Michel, in response .to our officers, re-plies with g\orious^cs/>nt de corps, The Guarddies, and never surrenders! his, words in--stantly fulfilled, as he falls lifeless, swor,:! inhand, while Cambroiine, grown old in theservice (to whom these words have been falselyattributed), gives up his weapon to WilliamHalkett. Halketts horse is shot, and Cambronnehastens away, but his captor is too .quick forhim, and seizing his gold aiguillette, hands himto a sergeant to be taken care of. On presses the 52nd. driving the broken Guardbefore it : it is a sight probably never repeatedin history—one .regiment traversing the fieldalone, in sight of. the army; sending the foelike sheep into the • hollow ; dispersing andpushing them relentlessly back, until they turnand fly, and other

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