The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-18
NAPOLEON AND WATERLOO.
MOUNT HOPE. Kan. June H. 9.

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battle of Waterloo.
Napoleon, the great statesman an
soldier, after struggling for twenty year
against combined hereditary monarch
ial Europe" was compelled to retire
the island of Eliza. He arrived there O.
May 8, 1914 By the treaty of Fountain
Bleau, signed by Napoleon and the al
lies, in April, 1914, an allowance O
$500, 600 was to be paid to him annually
by the French government, for his ant
his suites maintenance. But after oh
tanning control of France by the aid O
| 100000 soldiers the allies rushed int
every part of her provinces, the displset
| BoWbons refused to fulfill their stipu
lated part of paying the allowance made
to him.
| About this time, January, 1915, un
questioned intelligence reached Elb;
that prepa rations were being made t,
seize Napoleon and transport him to St
| allies had made with him at Fountain
Bleau. This great man whose geniu!
never deserted him, in this most trying
hour, determined to make an effort tc
avert the awful doom that Che knew
awaited him, and, knowing the affection
| borne him by the French people, he de,
! termined to make last struggle for his
and their independence. He therefore
took his little fiotilla and early in March,
1916, landed on the coast of his beloved
France, and, despite the most strenuous
efforts of the Bourbon rulers, made a
march of several hundred miles, and
within few days, entered the palace OF
the Tuilleries without shedding a drop of
blood, or the loss of a single life.
But this step of the French people was
not to be tolerated by the hereditary
crowned despots" of Europe, at this time,
to install a plebiau, or man of the peo-
pie as their ruler.
Dropping all animosity (for they had
almost come to open war among them
selves, over the spoils wrested from
Franco at their congress at Vienna
they declared him an outlaw, and made
immediate preparations to crush the man
of the people for daring TO rule over his
beloved France, by the voice of her peo-
pie alone, and determined to install one
''by the grace Of God" III his stead. At
ter i'll vain pleading for peace, without
avail, with those God chosen monarch, by
superhuman efforts. Napoleon succeeded
in assembling 100, goo of his old comrades
in arms, and on the 18th of June, 1915,
crossed the French frontier, near Char
laroi. and rapidly approached the enemy,
who were grouped IN the neighborhood
of Brussels, the capital of Belgium The
allies were fully 200. 900 strong, under
the English Duke of Wellington, and
the Prussian Marshal Butcher. Quickly
interposing between the English and
Prussian armies with his main columns,
he prepared to strike those decisive
blows, as of yore, on the plains OF Me-
rengo, at AusterlitZ, at Freedland and on
the plains of the Machfield, opposite
Vienna, where at that moment, the
crowned heads Of Europe, his enemies,
Were assembled, and held as close pris-
oners his wife and only child. Dispatch
ing Marshal Ney. with the First and Sec
ond corps to seize the cross roads of
Quatre Bras, and effectually bar the APP
proach OF the English army from sue
cOring the Prusslan marshal, with orders
to send the magnificent Second corps,
of the finest cavalry and
of the old guard, 10 his aid
OH the morrow, he prepared to destroy
the Prussian and then the English army
in detail.
Marshal Ney (poor, unfortunate Ney) on
arriving late at night in the neighbor-
hood of Quatre Bras, learning that it
was unoccupied, himself and army ex-
with their march of sixty-seven
miles in fifty-two hours through mud
and water, certain he could possess HIM
self of the point in the morning, sent
word to his emperor that he was actually
in possession and he and his army re-
posed in the mud within half cannon
shot Of Quatre Bras on the night OF June
10. On this information, Napoleon early
IN the morning (of the 10TH brought on
5he battle of Liguy, relying on Ney
sending him the magnificent Second
corps under Kelerman and DeErion TO
otally destroy Butchers army. In the
hight of the 18th, the traitor Bourmount
Arnold like deserted to the allies and
carried to Butchers headquarters the
plan of the campaign by Napoleon,
now being carried into effect. But the
history of this battle is well known.
3lucher's army was driven like cbaff be-
ore the wind; his lines broken at every
,oint, totally routed, himself narrowly
capture, with a loss of 0,000
nen. He rapidly retreated in a direc-
ion little south of Wavres. But, where |
vas the cavalry of the second corps |
o complete the victory? Ney and |!
lis army reposed OH the dreadful !
hight of June 18th, and when the morn |
ng of June 10Th dawned his astonished |
hahali thrO,,rrh fta hI1rli-c-
nd storm, Wellington with his English /
ed coats in possession Quatre Bras. Nor
flied at his blunder he made superhu-
nan efforts TO possess himself of what |
e could have had without an effort a
ew hours before and dreadful siaugh-
er was the result. Could the fine caval-
Y of kellerman and DeErlon of the
second corps have been sent to Napoleon's |
id. as was intended, Ney's blunder now
made impossible, Blucher's army would
ave been swept from the face of the
arth and Waterloo would not have
een;-Blucher would not have been able
0 rally %, 600 men TO come TO yelling
on's aid two DAYS later to rescue him !
rom defeat. Wellington stood firm at
,uatre Bras. although the losses were
rightful to both armies, until he learned
t the total defeat of Butcher. and his
wn peril. when he rapidly fell back
oward Brussels during the night of
he 10th and the day of the 18th of June,
loosely pressed by Ney, who useless
acrihced his fine cavalry and the cuiras-
ers of kellerrnan and DeErlon, on
HON. we shall see, the salvation of the
rench army depended.
Wellington fell back rapidly, follow
lg the high ridge between the rivers
cine and Dyle, on the main road to
russels until the forest of Seiguis was
cached, and drew up his army in front
the entrances. his right resting on the
lllage of Waterloo, his left at the vii