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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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ouble ; but adark tradition lingers that voices wereheard afterwards, faintly imploring, fromthe cavernous depths. Wild strawberries hung their red clusters,and the little, blue forget-me-not peeped in thewoods ; birds of prey came croaking on thewing ; and within twenty - four hours tenthousand horses had been flayed by the Flemishpeasants, many of whom made fortunes byplunder ! Men gathered jewelled decorations and crossesby handfuls : it was impossible to take threestrides without treading on a sword, a brokenmusket, a carbine, or a corpse ! Near La Haye Sainte they found a prettyFrench girl in hussar uniform, and the farmitself was encrusted with blood ; tufts of hairadhered to the doorways, the yard presentinga sight never to be forgotten. A pole towhich a scrap of torn silk clung was picked upunder the body of Ensign Nettles : it was theKings colour. The remains of three French brothers namedAngelet were among the slain, and the historvof one v.-as most romantic. Wounded in some
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■^■%^¥k(j)^ of the Napoleonic wars, where he had lost a leg,he was taunted by a lady with the fact that hecould only talk of what he /lad done for France—that he could do no more. The brave fellowseized his crutches, limped after the army, andmet his fate at Waterloo. Pictons body — wounded at Ouatre Bras,though none but his valet knew it — wastaken to England, and by a strange coincidencewas laid, at the Fountain Inn, Canterbury,on the very table at which he had dined.a fortnight before, on his way to join thearm)-. Byng of the Guards said to Sir John Colbornein Paris : How do your fellows like our gettingthe credit of what you did at Waterloo ? I couldnot advance because our ammunition was alldone. The Foot Guards got their bearskins as a well-merited reward, only the Grenadier companieswearing them during the battle. The 52nd.for their great share in the closing scene,received — nothing! and the Duke, when WATERLOO. approached on the subject of that glaringinjustice, s

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