, 1870-08-20

four to aeventJ-three pieces Of artillery. SIT
Was veIy sad defeat for tho Efennh army,
for It Was Loaf In night Of their own country
men, on the sacred Ao1 Of France, and under
= cn'ef whom til then even they had deemed
ipsincible. Here they could lay no bl1me on
revo1ted Germans or b1 token bridges. nor salre
their wounded pain By any pa1liatircs. They
had been driven out of the position they had
Eelec,ed At leisure tT force and bravery great-
or than they could evince for its defence; and
the allies, frum thus tina forward. had more
Confidence and resolution In their encounters
with the enemy. 1t WAS after this battle that
tue Russian Emp:ror Alexander embraced
Coult Nostitz, aid 10 n.u hr, and exclaimed.
. Say from nc to tho Field Marshal {B.ueheF)
that (ly this victory) lie Inns to-day placed tho
croun npon all his former triumuhs."
4 great deal of fighting took place in this
region, which is the ....ssrategic area for the
invasion OF Paris," Il embraces 4 territory
between Lette 0rivulet) north. and Troyes,
south, on Tho Seine, ninety miles wide. the
base Of n triangle, of which Palis Is the apex,
eighty miles from that bass.
At Lson occurred the Gettysburg of this
campaign, eth, 9Th, and 10th OF March, 1914.
Napoleor, like Lee, tisked everything on
single thread, and lost everything. Ii wa It
seph: "The Old Guard alone held together
(or stood frm); ali the rest melted Cof went
to rieces) ike SNOW" Like Gettysburg
II Wt8 seIea or dtsIocAtGl attacks
and combats. Napoleon, like Leo,
pu1sued- This slackness was owing to
tLe fact that Blucher was almost sick unto
death, and nothing further is necessary TO
demonstrate the influence OF this wonderful
old prussiAn over conglomerate host than
the fact, beyond contradiction, that With bis
failing health and strength or bis recovery
tank or rose in an equal degree the energy
and potential fight OF tho army winch be
alone could make to forget its almost uu-
Iearahle euffttings, pEisatious. 1abots, and
losses..
Nevertheless, after al, the Allies advanced
npon the main road from Chalons, along the
Marie to the French capital.
bHenne is only sir days marrl from Paris.
get, although k!ucher was at that point on
the ?.tA Of January, 1914, it vas not until
the 3lst Of NsrcL following that the slEies en-
tered Paris.
Tho follo~ipg is Lavalliea' "Summary Of
the BASIN Of tho Upper Seine:" The basin Of
tle heine, Al far a. Pasis, has remarkable
direction. 1ts origin is ) tortuous liue, OF
which the sources Of the Masuc aud OF the
fonne arc At the two extreme lines OF this
{ laiu, and the Seine occupies its centre; this
reIraEka liable physical constitution has given to
this basin, At ali times. high degree of mill
taKy Importance, more particularly sincn Paris
has become the principal regulator OF the des-
tlnies OF Europe Ws mag recognize this i'm
poItance III the history OF the feudal WARS.
aEd Of the wars OF religion Of the 18th c.ntn-
y, which hAve devastated this region iu every
direction, but still more directly in the cam
paign OF 1874, when there was not hillock,
or Lrook, or \ tingle other obstacle that was
not the object OF some eki1{01 combination or
Tho scene OF eone sanEuinaly conflict.