Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-04-20
The Man Who Won Waterloo.

It would lead me too far were ], even
in relation to Gneisenau only, to specify
here the particulars of tue campaigns OF
1918, 1914, and 1915. The most daring
and audacious of all generals, he was the
soul of that army which, although the
smallest of the allied forces, by assuming
the offensive, became the originator and
leader of concentrated action against Ma
poleon. Blucher performed to the let
ter what Gneisenau planned; they were
one soul and one head. The enthusias-
tic confidence, the most cheerful and
heroic fatalism, united the two generals,
who, even in the darkest hours of the
war;, acted with the most implicit faith
in its ultimate result. GA lasting peace
can only be concluded i'll Paris
was the parole given out by
Gneisenau while still in silesia,
sForward to Paris!!" was the war-cry
with which Butcher inspired his troops.
They never were jealous of G q n other;
the one formed the complement Of the
other. When, in 1914, they both visited
England, Butcher was made honorary
doctor by the university of Oxford.
NClly llu lC oid AIuo-ais VIZ
hearsay only knew doctors of medicine,
ri will make it all right, as long MS |
have an apothecary who makes as good
and efficient pills as Gneisenau." When,
at about the same time, the city of Lon-
don gave a public dinner 10 their cell
ebrated guests, Butcher, in answering a
toast, asked the party present: "Who
of you, gentlemen, can kiss his head"
AS he received no answer, the fine old
fellow went to the otherside of tae table
and kissed his friend Gneisenau.
Mr.. Delbruck gives a plain and ex-
haustive narrative Of the several cam
paigns, and illustrates them with little
maps, 81 that the general reader can
easily follow and understand the march
of events. The war, it is known, ended
with the battle of Waterloo. 1t was here
again, G%neisenau, who, by his intuition
and energy, prepared the final victory.
He advised Butcher, who had just been
fall back upon his natural line of retreat
on the Mas, but, in the teeth of the en-
envy, to unite the whole Prussian army
with that of Wellington. He thus COR
rectly appreciated the character of Ma
poleon. II know my man." he eN-
planned to Butcher; che will and must
concentrate all his forces in an attack on
the English, in order to beat them be-
fore our arrival" "Old Marshal For
ward" carried out his friends advice
with the vigor Of a young man, and Just
in time effected his junction with We'll
lington, an operation which Napoleon
had thought impossible. and which de-
cided the war against him. After
the battle, Gneisenau persistent
ly followed the beaten enemy
with such energy that he made his
fight a still more crushing defeat and
sealed the doom of the empire long be-
fore Napoleon arrived a Paris. THE
wrote Butcher on June 81, 1915. az
shall render a great service to humanity
by having the wretch shot. 1t will be
the most useful for him too" The
Marshal would have kept his word if
Wellington had not interfered on Napo-
Icons behalf.
Ten years later in commemoration oil
the great Waterloo victory-viz., on June
Is, 1S35-Gneisenau was made a field
marshal. the King in 1915, having made
him a count and bestowed a large estate
on him. He afterward held several
high offices of trust, and died in 1881 o
cholera as Governor of Posen. Gneise.
nau was a noble character, an earnes,
scholar, and a humane soldier. Only
once in his life did he shed tears. i
was when he rode over the battlefield
of Leipzig and saw the poor victims O
war in their blood and last agony. His
tory has few characters of such purity O
mind, Of such noble aspirations, and o.
such modest but effective devotion tx
their country. He was q self-made man
who, by following the intuitions of hi
genius, achieved acknowledgement
Corr. n. Y. Post.