Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-03-30
BATTLE OF WAGRAM.
BY HRABLEY.

1t is at WagraHa that We are to look for
Macdonald's greatest deed. One never.
thinks Of that terrible battle without feel.
ings ofthe profoundest wonder at his des-
perate charge, that then and there saved
Napoleon and the empire. The battle OF
Aspew adproved disastroust to theFrench.
The utmost efforts Of Napoleon could not
wiring victory from the hands of the Aus
trians. Massena had stood under tree:
while the boughs were crashing with can
non ball overhead, and fought as never he
fought before The aveLandes had been
manghed by cannon shot, and died, while
the victorious guns fthe enemy were still
playing on his heroic but flying column,
and the fragments ofthe magnificent army
that had in the rnofRing moved froRa the
banks ofthe Danube in all the confidence
of victory, at nightfall were crowded in the
little island of I.obaw. Rejecting the
counsels of bis officers Bonaparte resolved
to make a stand here, and wait for a rein
forcement to come up. No where does
his exhaustless genius show itself more
than at this critical period of his life. He
revived the dropping spirits of his soldiers
by presents from his own hands, and Wis
tied in person the sick in the hospitals,
while the most gigantic plans at the same
time strung his vast energies to their ut
most tension.
From the latter part of May to the first
of July, he had remained cooped up in this
little island, but not inactive. He had
done everything that could be done on the
spot, while orders had been sent to the
different armies to hasten to his relief
and never was there such an exhibition of
the skill and promptitude with which or
ders had been issued and carried out. AT
two o'clock in the afternoon, the different
armies from ell quarters first began to
come in, and before the next night they
had all arrived. First with music and
streaming banners appeared the columns
of Bernadotte, Fastening from the Banks
of the Elbe,carrying JOY to the Responding
hearts of Napoleon's army. They had
hardly reached the field before the stirring
notes of the bugle. and the roll of drums
in another quarter had announced the ap.
prOach of Vendarmme from the provinces
on the Rhine. Wrede came next from the
banks of the Leet, with his strong Bava.
rians, while the morning. sun shone on
Macdonald's victorious troops, rushing
down fiom the Alpine SUBMITS to save
Bonaparte and the Empire. As the bold
ScOtchnnah refined his steed up beside
Napoleon and pointed back to his advan.
cirg columns, he little thought that two
days after, the fate Europe was to turn on
his single will. Scarcely were his troops
arranged in their appointed place, before
the brave Marmont appeared with glitter
ing bayOnets and waving plumeS from the
borders of DalmatiG. Like an exhaust
less stream, the magnificent armies KEEP,
joining int that little isle, while to crown
the whole, Eugene came up with his vet
Grams from the plains of Hungary. In two
days they had ell assembled, and on the
evening of the 4th Of July, Napoleon
glanced with exultaat eye over 10000
warriors, crowded and packed INTO the
small space Of two miles and half in
breadth, and mile and half in length.
! Congratulations were exchanged by sol.
disrs who lost view Of each other on some
glorious bsttle field, and universal joy and
hope spread through the dense ranks tha
almost touched sach ether:
Bridges hsd been constructed to fline