Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-19
why NAPOLEON LOST WATERLOO
STORY OF LIEUT.. RADOuN, WHO
SERVED UNDER GROUCHY.
The Cause of Grouchy's Failure to
reach Waterloo In Time to support
NnpoIcon-iIistory of Francis Rn-
doux-Imprncticni orders.


Would NapoIeon have won Waterloo
~ ro,rforo,1 Ia, cro,,ob,.o Ara ,,,b,,
dfd Groucb,, can d, retnforca Name
ieohF
This dual question has been the bat
tledore and shuttlecock of discussion
and 1,sn,,ta h,, s,,,.s,,o,, ,,,t,,or,,
N9put' "S ''"'V9H'ei'' "'''''i'S
men and historical writer's ever since
the memorable 18th Of June, 1916, when
the great corsicar In tho snoca ~ n
iv" NUTS iost "a'e'loo anu the throne
VI France.
Apropos of the present popular re-
yiynl OF NanoIsorIc ,,taras, ,hrc,,,,h
| i"'eiS'' '"iuus"-
OUT thls country and European in
| terest reaching almost to a mania
| is a most intersstIne mud ", s,r,,, -,
! .r...,,,, -.
P1~'' ui''que interview had only a
| rev years ago with an officer who had
served under Cirouchy I'm that Waterloo
CAMPAIGN. This WA 1,ro,,,, r,,,,.,,..
d, ,,,,,,5., i'auouN'
~ >" captain hlShhIs COM
pany, Seventy-fuurth regiment OF in
tantry; n remarkable man, with a re-
Inarkable history; a veteran Of ninety
six years at the time 1 called on him,
ana yet both physically and intellectu-
ally finely preserved
Lieutenant to Napoleon.
Lieutenant Redoux uos how, o4 CT
Savan, province of Rrittan, Er', o.
Senternhn,. a 10, rance
barren M otbor ~ ,i,,, rs unliuhoou was
cldants. vet bIs an,,i VOC ILL., i,i-
early age to the tremsrdn,,s 1911 a., IN
which in rn,rd s,,ces,,,,f,', SfSli'9
his nation. The French rstoI,,tii,,,. ~
battle of VaIr,a, mo .yaa,,tt,,, ,is .'te
XIV ana hisst1,,een fAGorIa S,,, al Louis
the fall of RobesnIerre. 10 ,,,',,'t,,,,,
power and influence nf n csrt1it, " '',es
tain OF artillery. Napolr,n pon,,c.t.,
by name. the RnyolIst 90. H. ~ .e
dee; Lord l5nyys's ,,,'i ''' IA Ia ~
French; the conJr,esi ~ ttnii,nI FG ,i,. nc nc
Irrsnch n,,,to.' ~, ". h1idhi by the
parte. coinmandsr 90 49,, t ~ vi soilh-
In Italy over tb, A,,,t,i,,,,i, itHvh urlhy
ian invasion and sano,innsi MS icy . Pt-
battle of the Nile ana 1ss,,,,.,iH.,,, '.'S s
the French aeet by InrI N-. IV'Iu" OF
crossing of tha AIN, i,,, -, -Sylson' me
defeat az ,ta 1, ,Ps Dy honaparle ana
the renewal AZ 10. as az MI.ehso;
oT,d tsnt,,, - WNl put"een france
Tano I'i,,,''.' Nu y, trafalgar,
Trn,1,,t,,, anu CVIuhhai the rapid
r,,,nn,a,5a. % til'eIy captain TO
T''tlllaHuer IN chlet ana emperor OF |
rIailce-these had all followed In quick |
huccesslon by the time the boy Radoux
had reached the age of 16.
IN that year 1906, Raduux enlisted on |
a French prlvateer the Vetren. Cantnin |
Legrand But after a short ana bIood.
less experience, he. with otbars 100, |
by a British cruiser IT. VS. VS.
transferred Ia a nriso,, ahi - was
seven long. vear,, ,,ours a"u Ior
months he was 1r,sona,. 90 anu Some
one dnv he ea,,ad ~ vi war but
from drov,,,t,1' ~ WI Ehsllsh oihcer
~, ,,,,,,,',.,t.is' ~ "iith service he
Pad,,,r ~, 'l ll released'
NauouN at once returned to his ma
s,ne foMh, Where ne was received as
one risen from the dead, Ere long he
' .t.i ms youthtul love, Nile. Jean
cite ADAMS, and settled down TO do
nestle life. to cultivate the arts of
peace.
Napoleon's escape from Eliza. hIq
Of another large army on the
Belgian frontier and tha raii,,S IT, 'ne
the allied forces to meet him are too
familiar facts to need reiteration.
WIN me night of the French army
from y, on waterloo the military career OF
itadouN ended. The next year he, with
ms wife and infant child. emlgrated to
1n,'terlVs, lie settled In Raymond. Me,
Will Tor many years he carried on
H.. ,''rs, anu was also a famous dane
lng master and violnist-the best, In
e .3n roe, OF any man In Maine at that
tline, IT'S second wife was an aunt, by
hlaftlage' to Nathaniel Hawthorne
~ was AT his pleasant, richly fur
,ueheu nome In Portland that / met
nun. round MN nlce-looking, inter-
es,lhg' polished, genial and agreeable
~, 30 gentleman He was in suit OF
v Hss v siiu Wore oiacE velvet skullcap;