The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-11

PEE WEE vElIrAs MAILS HIS LETTER
similar TO that Of Bull Run, only that
one battle was ut one end of great
war and the other mt the reverse end.
June Is, 1915, the battle between
Napoleon and Wellington, supported by
the allied army of England, etc, and n
Prussian army, under Bluchcr, was
fought to a finish, the police remaining
i'll ignorance OF the trouble until it was
over.
Napoleon had successfully kept the
two great enemies apart for IL time, but
later on they were enabled TO unite
against him and polish him off, us the
historian has it.
Napoleon had routed Butcher, and
with Wellington seven miles away at
Quatre Bras there seemed to be good
living chance for the former, whose
forces We're reckoncd ut 1900 to Vel
lington 10000. Napoleon would hive
given battle to the latter Oh the 18th,
but it was late in the day and raining
so hard that it seemed impossible to fight
without getting wet feet, which would
have been hazardous and perhaps fatal:
On the morning Of the 18th the two
armies stood facing each other, with
every relation strained between them
and lurking antipathy which had been
worked up by the press
The contcnding hosts occupied paral-
lei ridges facing each other 800 to 800
yards apart, With ii valley between
The set to began at ii 30 Il. III. be
tween Jerome Bonaparte, Foy and
Bachelu on the one side and Harea-
mont OH the other 1t was no walkover
for either army, and at , O'Clock tho add
vantage was extremely Slight, tho
French having the possession of the in
tervening real estate, while tho English
had the personal property.
But shortly after noon tho Prussian
army began to loom up little against
the horizon. This saddencd Napoleon
right much aud annoyed him up to the
day of his death, for he had every rea-
son to believe that he had driven Butcher
so far away that he could not get back
without special train. He did not
dream that Butcher would walk back
and then begin fighting mt once without
changing his damp socks, but he did So
and the Little Corporal, who did so
much in the line Of souvenirs during his
lifetime, and who fostercd art by sitting
for his portrait between skirmishes, saw
his star declining i'll the distance
AT half past /, and only short time
after the whistle had blown mt the Wa
tcrloo stave mill Napoleon directed
Ncy to charge the enemy's center
which he did with fearful slaughter,
but was driven back. At O'Clock Mil
hand cuirassicrs massacrcd the English
dragons and retook the place. AT 4
O'Clock Wellington tried to rccapture the
point, although it was hardly worth
paying taxes ON. He did not succeed
however
AT I O'Clock the French We're greatly
encouraged, still holding their center
and having gained slight advantages Oh
both TANKS. AT this moment Napoleon
ordered the guard to advance in the
final attack, but the Prussian army
swarmcd from the forest of Soignies,
broke the French line and from way
ering pause it turned into Il reflex move
ment, dog trot, a sprint, lope and
then wild gallop for the tall timber
AT $3.50 p III. Wellington and Butcher
met at the roar of Napolcon's moving
headquarters. The latter had lost 30, 900
killed ard the allies %, 900. The French
also lost almost their entire artillery
and baggage. These troops ran well.
They kept shedding things as they went,
AID whom they reached the creek they
We're almost unanimously prepared to
20 in swimming without weiting their
clothes.
one o. the best Of not the hcsU de-
scripticna Of the battle of Waterloo
aside f:ura .hc aboyc is given by Victor
Hugo, wi.o has used my own language
almost il several instances. and yet he
has had more space and has therefore
gone more into detail.
Arthur Wellesley, X. G., dnke of
Wellington, was born at Dangan castle,
County Meath, Ireland, of Il well known
family, which has since furnished more
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