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Title: Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass., C.A. Nichols & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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red as blood, had in a state of defense. as if the dread colors of the battle-field This little paragraph gives an ade- were reflected in it. Then silence fell quate idea of the manner in which the upon the whole country side. The Germans always availed themselves of groaning of the cannon, the harsh shelter. In many an action German shrieks of the mitrailleuses, the hurrahs troops were scarcely seen at all by the of the Wurtemburgers and their sturdy enemy. If there was a wall convenient, allies, who had come up just in time to the\ had loop-holed it ; a forest. the\ save them, the cries of the wounded.— were hidden within it: a barricade was ali died away, as it the shades of the a God-send to them ; a cemetery, a ditch, winter twilight, rapidly falling over the —anything which they could transform scene of carnage, had blotted it out. into a temporary fortification, — was in- aud swept it into eternal oblivion. stantlv and invariably adopted. I EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. 34.3
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344 EUHOrii IX STomi AM> CALM. thank God, said this German soldier, ribly, and hundreds of them were unfit that I :ini slill alive. I shall never for battle next day. Trees wen cut forget that day. Some of the Prussian down and great fires were built, both otticerssaid thatitwas a much worse affair because General Trochu wished to make than that of Gravelotte. The soil was the enemy think that an immense army fairly turned up by the French shells, was encamped near him, and because the For the first, time I understand what it men were literally freezing. The lior- means to be outside of cover under an rors of that night for the wounded men artillery fire. On the 30th we could not surpass all the powers of description.o icupy the villages of Champigny and Next day there was no fighting, but Irv-sur-M.iine, for when the forts began early on the morning of the 2d of De-

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