The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-08

Berep, Janer on the Katzbach. and at Culm,
at Dennewitz, Mocker, and Leipsic, the allies
had defeated him. In the skirmishes, too,
military writer's showed that France had been
outDumbered in light ,valry, light infantry,
and sharpshooters.
On the 25th of January Napoleon left his
wife and child, and departed for the frontier.
just before he departed, he exclaimed to a
Senator who objected to the levy as likely to
produce alarm
Wherefore should not the whole truth be
told9 Wellington has entered the south, the
Russians menace the northern frontier, the
Prussians, Austrians, and Bavarians threaten
the east. Shame. Wellington is in France,
and we have not risen in mass to drive him
back. No peace, none, till we have burned
Munich. l demand of France three hundred
thousand men; will form q camp of hun
dred thousand at Bordeaux, another at Metz,
another at Lyons. With the present levy,
end what remains of the last, l will have
million of mer. But must have grown men,
not these boy.copscripts who cucumber the
hospitals and die of fatigue on the highways.
Councillors, there must be an impulse given;
all must march; you, the fathers of families,
the heads of the nation, it is for you to set
the example. They speak of peace, and l
hear of nothing but peace, when all around
should echo to the cry of war"
Wishing to avoid the forty fortresses that
protected the Rhine from Basel to Mayence
-Mayence to the mouth of the Scheldt-the
allies violated the neutrality of Switzerland
and took Geneva. On the 21st of December
Prince Schwarizenburg crossed The Rhine
with the Austrian army at four points and ad-
vanced upon Langres. 1t surrendered, as did
Dion, but Lyons repulsed its assailants
Blucher and the army of Silesia advanced in
four divisions, blockading the frontier for
tresses of Metz, Sarre Louis, Thionville, and
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defiles of the Vosges and pressed forward to
Joinvile, Vitry, and alnt-Dizier, to be in
communication with the central army, which
bad already penetrated as far as Bar-sur-Aube.
Napoleon finding the allies linger at Langres,
prepared, with seventy thousand men, to
check them with one hundred and thirty
seven thousand, and stop their march to
Paris. At Chalons he made his stand, and
struck his first blow at Brienne, the we'll
remembered scene of his school-days. The
brave campaign which some writer's think
evinces Napoleon's highest genius, ended, as
we all know, in the abdication of Fontaine-
bleau.
The history of towns on the Rhne is n
record of sleges and battles. Louis XIV and
Vauban built this fort Turenne destroyed
that; this village was fired by Wrede's men;
this one on the opposite bank by Bonapartes.
Let us sketch few of the Rhenish strong
beautiful Coblentz have gone across to Ehren-
breitstein to see to the best advantage the
junction of the Rhine and the Moselle; and
the course of the first noble river from Hol-
zenfels to Andernach. The Gibraltar of the
Rhine, Ehrenbreitstein, was the old refuge
and stronghold of the Electors of
Treves, who, in later times, be-
fore they lived on the other side of the
river, occupied palace at the foot of ''The
of choI fHar
besieged this rock in 1858 for Louis XIV in
the wars we have described; but it laughed
all efforts of his to scorn, though Vauban
built the batteries, and Louis XIV, in the
most flowing of wigs, strutted hither to see
it surrender to his cannon. But tn Repub-
licans, fiercer and less scientific, took ii 799
after terrible siege, duling which cats rose
to a horin and half each, and horsehesh to
thirty kreutzers pound. When the French
had to surrender it after the peace of Lune-
vile, they spitefully blew it up. Byron's fine
lines
"Here EhTenbreitstein, with her shattered wall,
Black with the miners blast upon her height
Yet shows OF what she was when shot aud oa,
Rebounding idly on her strength did light,
A tower OF victory, from whence the hight
OF bafied foes was watched along the plain.
But peace destroyed what war could never blight,
And laid those proud roofs bare TO summer d
rain
are no longer true. Since 1911 the Prussians
devoted to the repair of this fortress the tf-
teen million francs which France had to pay
her after the war. The government has be-
sides expended on it one million two hundred
| thousand pounds. The works at Coblentx
on both sides of the Rhine, Murray's Hand
book, a reliable authority, says, can form a
fortified camp to hold one hundred thousand
men. The magazines are capable of storing
provisions for ten years for Eight thousand
men. The steep rock (wilfully exaggerated
by Turner, who makes it touch the clouds) is
defended by about four hundred pieces of
cannon. The weak point, the English guide
book says, is the northwest but three lines
of wall there have quite made up for Natures
defects, and are strong enough for any num-
ber of Frenchmens heads to knock against.
The cisterns in the rock are able to hold a
supply of water for three years, and there is
besides we'll sunk four hundred feet, and
communicating with the Rhine
CoblentZ, with its fortifcations which took
twenty years to complete, and which spread
from the Rhine to the Mosele, commanding
the approaches from Cologne and Treves, and
the roads to Mayence and Nassau, is one
of the stanehest bulwarks of the Rhenish
provinces, of which it is the capital. Its
lines form a fortified camp capable of con.
tanning one hundred Thousand men, and they
unite the two systems of Notifications of Car.
not and Montalembert. 1t has been the scene
of hard fighting, for not far off, at Wissen
IL urn, the French under Hoche, in 1897
crossed the Rhine in spite of the Austrians
and a monument near the roadside bears the
simple inscription, ''L'armee de Sambre e
Meuse son General Hoche." Near the June
tion of the Rhine and the Moselle, at For
Franz, on the height of Petersburg, is the
grave of the young general; and not far off i:
a IN OIL ument to General Marceau, another
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