The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-25
The Man Who Won Waterloo.

1t would lead me too lar were L,
even in relation to Gneisenau only,
to specify here the particulars of the
campaign 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
Napoleon. Blucher performed to
the letter what Gneisenau planned;
they were one soul and one head.
The enthusiastic confidence, the most
cheerful and heroic fatalism, united
the two generals, who, even jD the
darkest hours of the war, acted with
the most implicit faith in its ultimate
result. "A lasting peace can only be
concluded in Paris" was the parole
given out by Gneisenau while still
in Silesia. Forward to Paris!o
was the war-cry with which
Blucher inspired his troops. They
never were Jealous of each other; the
one formed the complement of the
other. When, in 1914, they both
visited England, Blucher was made
Honorary Doctor by the University
of Oxford. "Well," said the old
hussar, who from hearsay only knew
doctors of medicine. II will make it
all right, as long as have an apoth-
ecary who make as good and efficient
pills AS Gneisenau." When, at about
ne same time the city of London
gave public dinner to their cele-
brated guests, Blucher, in answering
toast, asked the party present:
WHO Of you, gentlemen, can kiss
his head?' AS he received no an
swer, the fine old fellow went to the
other side of the table and kissed his
friend Gneisenau.
Mr.. Delbrick gives a plain and
exhaustive narrative of the several
campaigns, and illustrates them with
little maps, so that the general read
er can easily follow and understand
the march of events. The war, it is
known, ended with the battle of
Waterloo. 1t was here again,
Gneisenau, who, by his intuition and
energy, prepared the final victory.
He sdvised Blucher, who had just
been beaten at Ligny, June 10th, not
to fall back upon his natural line of
retreat on the Mas, but, in the
teeth of the enemy, to unite the
whole Prussian army with that OF
Wellington. He thus correctly ap-
preciated the character of Napoleon.
II know my man." he ex-
planned to Blucher; =" he will
and must concentrate all his forces in
an attack on the English, in order to
beat them before our arrival" "Old
Marshal Forward" carried out his
friends advice with the vigor of a
young man, and just in time effected
his junction With Wellington, an op-
Grafton which Napoleon had thought
impossible, and which decided the
war against him. After the battle,
Gneisenau persistently followed the
beaten enemy with such energy that
he made his flight still mo.e crush
ing defeat and sealed the doom Of the
empire long before Napoleon arrived
near Paris. 1.-THE tyrant will be de-
livered up to me-" wrote Blucher on
Jun7 q, 1915. II 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 Yelling
ton had not interfered on Napolion's
behalf.
Ten years later, in commoration of
the great Waterloo v;ctory-viz., on
June Is, 1825-Gneisenau was made
a field marshal, the King in 1915,
having made him a count and be-
slowed large estate on him. He
afterward held several high offices oi
trust, and died in 1881 Of cholera as
Governor of Posen. Gneisanau was
a noble character, an earnest scholar,
and a humane soldier. Only once in
his life did he shed tears. 1t was
when be rode over the battlefield of
Leipzig and saw the poor victims of
war in their blood and last agony.
History has few characters of such
purity of mind, Of such noble aspira-
lions, and of such modest but ehec-
tive devotion to their country. He
was a self-made man, who, by follow
ing the intuitions OF his genius,
achieved ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Corr.
". Y Post.