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| Life.
In the memoirs OF General Baron
de Marriott, just Published in Paris, 10
recorded a battlefield incident as re-
markable as any to be found in the
CORY annals OF war. Marriott was q
French officer in the Napoleonic wars.
At the battle ofaEylau hsswas aide-de-
camp to Napoleon, and was directed
to convey message to the l4th
regiment, which occupied the top OF
small hill where Il was surrounded by
the enemy, Russians. and was being
rapidly cut to pieces. Napoleon
desired the regiment to retire, but it
was not possible for it to do SO. See
ing that escape was cut of the COM
manding officer gave the regimental
Eagle to Marriott, asking him to de-
liver it to the Emperor, for they could
no longer defend it, and soon after
the aide rode away. Every one Of
the gallant fellows persisted. Marriott
owed his own miraculous escape from
the Russian bullets to the ANNA. he
rode. He was riding that day a
beautiful mare, gentle, perfectly
broken, tender-mouthed, easy in her
PAGES, and with an extraordinary
turn OF speed but o fiend incarnate in
the stable. She savagely attacked
anyone she took a dislike to.
She had killed at least one
groom before Marriott bought
her for mere trife, as a dangerous
brute. 1t took four or five men to
saddle her, and she could clly be
bridled by first blindfolding her and
tying up her legs. Marbot's servant
had at last partially tanned her by
giving her a hot roast leg of mutton
to bite at, and as she found it burnt,
she was afterwards more moderate,
and in q little time allowed Marriott
or his servant to saddle her: once
mounted, she was perfectly quiet.
When Marriott received the eagle,
he found it both heavy and awkward,
and he was bending forwards, trying
to break the staff short of, when
cannon-shot struck the back peak OF
his cooked hat passing within line
or two of his head, and partially
stunning him by the conclusion, as
well as by the forcible jerk of the, chin
stay. The eagle fell from h.s hands.
He was still able to see and to under
stand, but he was deprived OF all mo-
tion and speech. He remained in the
saddle, but neither by hand, nor leg,
nor voice could he communicate to
Lisette, the mare, his desire to be
gone. She stood motionless; and the
tide of battle and the terrible death
struggle ragged around. As the only
mounted officer, Marriott was natur-
ally a special object of attack. Sew
eral musket shots were aimed at him,
several bayonet stabs, but only one
took effect-in the arm. A
Russian, endeavoring to reach him
more fatally, stumbled and stabbed
Lisette in the thigh. The smart rous-
ed the sleeping devil within her, and
"dashing at her enemy, in one bite
she tore of the whole of his mask,
skin of his face, making bloody, liv.
ing deaths head. 1t was horrible to
see! Then, plunging madly into the
midst of the combatants, Lisette,
kicking and biting, upset everything
which she met in her passage. A Rus.
sian officer attempted to seize. her
bride; she caught him by the middle,
lifted him up, carried him out of the
throng, and down the hill, where aft
er tearing out his bowels with her
teeth, and crushing his body under her
feet, she left him, and went of at full
galiop in the direction she had come"
Thanks to the hussar saddle, Mar
kept his seat, while the mare mad with
pain and fright, tore wildly along.
She ran straight at battalion OF the
Old Guard, who in tho mist and snow
sancied she was the head OF q charge OF
Russian cavalry and opened ERE on
her; she passed Through it unhurt; and
though her riders saddle and cloak
were cut to pieces, he himself was un.
touched. She event through the three
ranks of the battalion as lightly as
butterfly passes through hedge"
But the strain and the loss of blood
had exhausted her, and little furth
er on she fell and rolled over on one
side, Marriott rolling of on the other.
There he lay senseless in a heap oil
snow. Murat great cavalry charge
swept by, him. or. over him. without
recalling him to life; he did not be
come conscious till some hours after
when he found himself stark naked,
with the exception of his hat and right
boot, which an artillery drive. was
trying to pull of. When the fellow
discovered that his subject war still
alive, he left 1t, though, he carried Oh
the rest of the clothes. This proved
fortunate; for afterwards, as he was
showing his booty, the pelisse was rec.
pgnized by one of Augereau's servants,
man who owed Marriott debt oil
gratitude, and who now paid it. He
went to look for Marbot's body, found
MIN alive and brought him in, as well
rs Lisette. Both recovered and were
together. again in the Friedland cam.
paign. ~
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