The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-01-29

tmenns-of -cof1ntunf tion- betweetf them,
Il ! had not taken that sudden resoIu.
hon We were, ,Iassure yen, IN o most
dangerous predicament I. g. e. II 4.
We talked Of Lamartine's description
OF Bonaparte's weakness, and even COW:
ardice, towards the close Of Waterloo.
He said e u course I could see moth.
ing about y, but I can hardly believe il,
Think that even with ordinary men d
great interest would overcome personal
fear. Il
Crok Perhaps ii ID; as true as your
having had eight horses knock ed up OF
killed under You. Copenhagen must
have been avery old horse when saw
him Inst at Strathfeldsaye, if you rode
him at Copenhagen. 81 fiiSs b f;:l
Duke Oh, no. He was not named
from my having ridden him at sCopen.
hagen; his dam wns q blood mare which
Tom Grosyenor had.in the expedition
to Copenhagen, and he called her foal
by that name, so that he must have
been foaled after 1906. Grosyenor sold
him to Charles Stewart, now London.
derry, Of whom, when he left the Pc.
ninsula, Z bought him and rode him
throughout the rest Of tile war, and
mounted no other horse at Waterloo.
In coming to see me CAS- he had done
the day but one before September e
he 1.-THE Duke had chosen to walk from
the station to our house and without
even Q guide. He said he had found
it Q rough walk and the ground inter-
sected in o way he had n st expected; sc
! said to him ~" It seems you forgot tc
guess what was ct the other side st tile
hill. n, This was in allnsion to circuirn-
stance which had occurred between him
and mas some i: thirty, years before.
| When travelling on the north road we
amused ourselves by guessing what sort
of q country we should find at the other
side Of the hills we drove up, and when
depressed surprise at some extraordi-
nary good gnesses he had made, he said F..
why, 4 have spent all my Life in trying
to guess what was at the other side Of
the Hill. IA
3 IShad remind ed him Of this Just before
we we're driving across the revine that
Ind impeded him, and he turned round
to- Mrs. Gorker to explain it to her, ad-
ding, All the business of war, and in.
deed oil the business Of life, is to en-.
deavors to: find out what you don't know
by what you do J; that's what I called
guessing what was at the other side o.
the hill. = ISL b
n: He said the perfection Of practical wal
was to move troops as steadily and cool
II on q field Of battle as on parade.
tSoult's fault was that, though great
strategest, he never seemed to me .tc
know how to- handle the troops after
the battle had began. .
4. thenstold him what Guizot told me
of Lannes having said tina" le plus grand
General etuit ce1ui que Ia cannonade
,faisait meiux entendre ct que Ia fumee
faisait yoir plus c1alr..'n' :.3 Z, 80 81 3
Duke-Humphl q pause.) That's
only cleyerer phrase for what I have
been just saying -sang froid-presence
of mind but that is not enough; the
mind besides being cool, must have the
art Of knowing what's to be done and
how TO- do it. y ;t', ).
= certainly did not draw my sword.
I may have ordered, and I dare say
did order the charge Of the cavalry,
and pointed out its direction; but
did not charge as q. common trooper.
81 u have at all times been in the hab-
II Of covering as much as possible the
troops exposed to the fire Of cannon.
8 place them behind the top of thu
rising ground and make them sit and
lie. down, the better to cover them from
the fire. 5.it8! : ~ 9ts III Il
After the fire I Of the enemy's
cannon the enemy's troops may
have advanced, or. q favorable oppor-
tunitys Of attacking might have arrived.
What T must have said, and possibly
did say. was Stand up Guards 7 and
then gave the commanding officers
the order to attack.
my common practice III defensive
position was to attack the enemy at the
very moment at which he Was about to
attack our troops. ..st.S