The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-09-06

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French guns az tie foot q Che hare
bin alrgady mentioned near 10 village
q Flooring
AT 1920 ne French infantry, DC
longer So ported s. Their artillery, wert I
compelled 60 retire n Fioupg and
soon ahervtd q junction between ibo
Saxons apd Piassiaus bshiud sedan
was announced Is Us by Gen Won
Room. Who eagerly ptaurs through q
large telescope p being safely elmplet.
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From this moment tht rtsuit oi Tue
battle could not longer ba daabiiul
The French were completely surround
ca and brought g hay
AZ 1895 we Metc hli asionlshel to
see clouds oi retieahnag French nian-
try 90 the billhetween Flooring and sc-
dan A Prusslaa battery was ~ front
lei II Meinss making accurate practice
with preston shells among their re-
eedlng ranks
The whole bill for q quarter Of an
hour was literally covered with French
men running rapidly
Ia less than half an hour aiierw3rd
al II 30, Gen Won Room called our at
teution TO another French column ID no.
treat to the right OF Sedan on the road
leading to Bazevllle to the Lagrenne
wood They never halted tail they an.
rived at red rooted house on the out
skirts Of Sedan itself
A move of the liaumont, Gen sheu-
dan who was using my opera glass ask
ed me to look at the third French col
umn moving up a broad grass covered
road through the Lagerenne wood im-
mcdiatcly above Sedan, doubtless to
support the troops defending the la2o-
vile road to thenortheast of the town.
At one O'Clock the French batteries
on the edge Of the wood towards Forey
and above it opened vigorous fire on
the advancing Prussian columns Of the
third corps whose evident intention IT
was to storm the hill west of Lagereme
and SO gain the key Of the position on
that side.
At 1913 o'clock yet another French
battery near the wood opened on the
Prussian columns, which were compel
cd to keep shifting their ground till
ready for their final rush at the hills in
order to avoid offering so good mark
for French shells.
Afterwards we saw the first Prussiar
skirmishers on the crest Of the Lageren
ne hills above Torey They did mol
seem in strength, aud Gen Sheridan
who was behiud me, exclaimed, All
the beggars are too weak, they can not
hold that position against all those
French ~ The Generals prophecy
soon proved correct, for the French adj
vancing at least six to one, the Pruss
ians were forced to retreat down the
hill to seek reenforcements from the
columns which were hurrying to theh
support In five minutes they came
back again. This time in greater force
but terribly inferior to those huge
French masses.
Good heavens the French cuirras
seurs are going to charge them, cried
Gen Sheridan, and, sure enough, the
regiment Of cuirrasseurs, their helmets
and broastplates glittering IN the Sep
TENDER sun, form in sections Of squad
rons and dash down on the scattered
Prussian shirmishers without deigning
to form in line, Squares are never us
ed by Prussians. The infantry reccir
ed the cuirrasscurs with an amazing
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