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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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The light troops had marched for Vigo,
whither Sir John Moore intended to follow ;
but at Orense a message overtook them, bidding
them send the transports round to Corunna,
and Captain Heisse, after a hard gallop through
the snow, was just in time to despatch the
vessels before an unfavourable wind set dead
into the harbour mouth.
At Calcabellos, while Lord Edward Paget
was haranguing the Reserve on the subject of
the growing insubordination, two plunderers
were caught in the act. The troops were in-
stantly formed in hollow square round a tree to
witness their execution, when a hussar dashed
in with news that the enemy were upon us.
" I don't care if the entire French cavalry
are here," roared the general ; "I'll hang these
scoundrels !"
They were lifted in the arms of the provost-
marshals men, the ropes were adjusted, and in
another moment they would have dangled in
mid-air, when a second hussar came up, and
carbine shots rang out from the 3rd Germans
at the bridge.
" Soldiers,' cried Lord Edward, "if I pardon
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"A HUSSAR DASHED IN WITH THE NEWS THAT THE ENEMY WERE UPON US !" (p. 356).

BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

these men will you promise better behaviour for
the future ?
"Yes," was the unanimous reply.
" Say it again !"
" Yes, yes !" from a thousand throats.
" A third time !"
It was done with a cheer, the men werer
eleased, and the troops went off at the double
towards the firing.
Colbert attacked us there with a large body
of cavalry-, and our Rifles, posted in a vineyard,
emptied a score of saddles as the French dragoons
and light horse tore up the road to the bridge-
head. Colbert was not only a splendid soldier,
but a good man, in an arm) where, unfortun-
ately, virtue was at a low ebb, and two days
before, at the review, Napoleon had said to him,
" General, you have proved in Egypt, Italy,
and Germany that you are one of my bravest
warriors : you shall soon receive the reward due
to your brilliant successes."
" Make haste, sire," replied Colbert, " for,
while I am not yet thirty, I feel that I am already
old."

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