The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10 00:00:00

CHARGE NOT TO BE WITHSTOOD.

When Item the French who had lined the advanCed trench
ou the lot retiring to what I now see was another epaule.
mi nt, when they were milli raked by the Winking batteries
of the outer nice and pounded and brayed by the Mamelou
goes, did not know how they had suffered, and could not
conceive why th. y retreated. 'rite Prussia,. coming up from
Fafnir:were invisible to me. Never can I forget tho sort of
agony with which I witnessed those who !became out on the
'diadem raising their heads and looking round Neon enemy,
while, hidden from view, a thth Woe hand Of French In.
I fantry was awaiting them, and a brigade of cavalry wets
ready ml their II o•k below. I did not know that Firing
was tilled witnlildl,llllCillg columns. Thera was but a wide.-
tending, I ,ore arr... et rkirmishets, like a neck of to Ara on the
plateau. Now tile Diets in front liegsii to lire at the hem!s
over the bind: lived by the French. This drew sneh a hash
of musketry as iamb'. I ever Sallie and eau:gored the ethers,
' but their couiraties came scrautAin, up from the rear, when
I suddenly the nest block of horse In the hollow shaok itself thy,
. and (hi, lino, in beautintl order, rushed up the slope. The
0,11.1 t was not to be withstood. The Praisians were caught
en ft venial it. lit. Those nearest the ridge slipped over into
the dechvit itis ground; those in ad vatic% rauvong 10 Vain,
were swept away. But the impetnosity of the charge cou'd
not be xtayed. Men and horses Caine taimqing down into
the road, where they were dis,,,oed of by the l'ruastnus in the
gardens, while the troopers on the left of the Hue, who wept
down the lane in act oul of dust, were almost exterminated
by the infantry in the village. There was al-o a regular
Cavalry encounter, I fancy, in the plains below, but I cannot
tell at what (lose; the Iluirn.siers, trying to cut their way
Out, were destroyed, nod • charge of two PraSSiaa squadrons,
which did out ,pulte equal expectations, occurred. The feat
of there unfortunate cavaliers only cleared the plateau fort I
little time. In a few minutes up came the spiked helmets
again over the French en:intern:lit, crossing their Nebr.,'
comrades, and, therefore all alive to the danger of cavalry.
They alvanced in closer onier, but still ekirmishing, and one ,
long, black parallelogram was maintained to rally 0, As
skirmishers got to the ridge they began to fire, but the Fre not an
the st!entel line of epauleniont soon drove them back by,
Me grouch rushedput of tht'h,aulrnuentl p•
suit, still Ming. At the same moment a :miriade eke" ,sea le
executed on the Prasslalla before which the mkt ol here
rallied, on what seemed tome tole° stills long pars' .e 1 C, see
They did not form square. Some Prussians too 'air ore
sabred. The troopers, brilliantly led, went girt ••.
Si cloud of dust, but when they were within of
handfed yards of the Pru.alans one simultateen- I-• , .1
out of the blank trent aid flank, which env., ,•- .
tunoke. Thek_were seatly sahbera who pulled tr. a. . •

I)Awn came ho:..e and man the aria) IVA Ur, • •L• •I
There was left in tr,,nt ot that dead'y intwatry 1,.t; r
white awl gray hozara—a terrace of awl atn,
dimonute.; wen, the Mit g troopers, who tutu)
inat.,ur.. More total disaltiatlou at a bright pig, at,tr,.•ll
but, Ira.