The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-08-03

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ing to precipitate the battle until his artillery
might deploy over a dry field.
Hugo has made the place and the scene I'm.
mortal in the greatest battle piece since Ho-
mcr The field of Waterloo is an undulatlng
plain. Strategically, it has the shape of an inn
mense harrow. Tho clevis is on the height
called Mont st. Jean. Behind that is the viii
lage of Waterloo. The right leg of the harrow
terminates at the hamlet of La Belle Alliance.
The left leg is the road from Brussels to Nj
vellcs. The cross bar intersects the right legs
at La Hale Sainte. The right leg is the high.
way from Brussels to CharleroI The intersec-
ton of the bar with the left leg Is near the
old stone chateau of Hougomont The battle
was fought on the line of the cross bar and in
the triangle between it and the clevls.
The conflict began just before noon. The
armies engaged were of equal strength, num-
bering about so, 90 men on each side. Napoleon
was superior in artillery; but Wellington's SOL
diers had seen longer service in the field. They
were his veterans from the Peninsular War,
perhaps the stubbornest fighters in Europe.
Napoleon's first plan was to double back the
allied left on the center. This involved the
capture of La Hale Sainte, and as a strategic
corollary the taking of Hougomont. The lat
ter place was first attacked. The field and
wood were carried but tho chateau was held
i'll the midst of horrid carnage by the British.
Early in the afternoon a Prussian division.
under Bulow, about l0,000 strong, came on the
field, and Napoleon had to withdraw q divi'
sion from his center to repel the oncOming Ger
mans. For two or three hours, in the area
between La Hale Sainte and Hougomont, the
battle ragged, the lines swaying with uncertain
fortune back and forth. La Hale Sainte was
taken and held by Ney. On the whole, the
British lines recedcd, Wellington's attempt to
retake La Hale Sainto ended in a ropulse. Ney
on the counter.charge called on Napoleon for
endorsements, and the latter at that moment,
changing his plan of battle, determined to
make the principal charge on the British cen.
ter. The support which he sent to Ney was
not as heavy as it should have been, but the
Marshal concluded that the crisis was at
hand, and Napoleon sought to support him
with Milhaud's cuirassiers ard n division of
the Middle Guard. Under this counter charge
the British lines reeled and staggered, but
still chung desperately to their p r.tion They
| gave a little, and then hung fast = i could be
moved no farther. In another part of the
field Durutte carried the allied position Of Pa
pelottc, and Lobau routed BulOw from Plan.
chenois, At half past four everything seemed
to portend disaster to the allies and victory
to the French.
just at this iuncture, however, an uproar
was witnessed far to the right. The woods
seemed to open, and the banners Of Butcher
his rear or flankl Napoleon saw at d glance
that it was then or never. His sun of Auster-
litz hung low in the west. The British center
must be broken, or the Empire which he had
phantom. He called out four battalions of the
Middle and six of the Old Guard. In the last
fifteen years that Guard had been thrown a
hundred times on the enemies of France, and
never yet repulsed. 1t deemed itself invinci'
bic.
At seven o'clock, just rs the June sun was
sinking to the horizon, the bugles sounded,
and the finest body Of horsemen in Europe
started to its doom on the squares Of Yelling
ton. The grim horScmCn rode to their fate
like heroes. The charge rolled on like an ava,
lanche. 1t plunged into the sunken road OF
O'Hain. 1t seemed to roll over. 1t rose from
the low grounds and broke on the British
squares. They reelcd under the shock; then
1Fr nvV SfnTl fact r.-1I DNNl - pf11rI
those immovable lines the soldiers of the EN-
pire beat and beat in vain. 1t vas the war OF
Of the Gaul and the Teuton.- The Old Guard
recoilcd. The wild cry of La Garle reculle
was heard above the roar of battle. The crisis
Of the, Modern Era broke in blood and smoke,
and the past was suddenly victorious. The
Guard was broken into flying squadrons. Ruin
came with the counter-charge of the British.
Ney, glorious in his despair, sought to stay
the tide. For an hour longer he was,as pecta-
Gle to gods and men. Five horses had been
hatless. He clutched the hilt of Il broken sword.
He was covered with dust and blood. But his
grim face was set against the victorious enc
my in the hopeless and heroic struggle to raj
ly his shattered columns
MEANWHILE the Prussians rushed in from the
Havoc came down with the darkness. A Sin.
gle regiment of the Old Guard was formed by
Napoleon into a last square around which to
midst and declared his purpose to die with
them. Marshal Soult forced him out of the
melee, and the famous SQUARE, eommanded by
into the teeth of the E~nglish-perished with
the wild cry of Vive IElnpcreurl
On that spot French patriotism has planted
a bronze ZION to commemorate forever the eX-
t%inction, not of the Old Guard only, but of the
Empire and of Napoleon the Great. There the
traveller from strange lands pauses, at the
cataclysm, and reflects with wonder how
ture could have been raised by tho passion of
battle to such sublime heroism rs that dis
played in these wheatfields and orchards where
the Old Guard of France sank into oblivion,
but rose to immortal fame.
The rest may be briefly summarized. Ma
cate without conditions. He becomes a fugi-
tive. On the Bird of July we see him at Roche
I reach tn the ' Wni Wg1| states soI 6utt the it1 En wInia tl eain
, patrol the Atlantic. His mind is confused
amid the wrecks of his destiny. He changes
his purpose, and throws himself on the gener
osity of England. He claims to be Il prisoner
of war, and expects the treatment accorded
by International law to great captains taker
ip battle. Vain expectation! He is conveyed
rious debates in the British Commons. Fol-
what shall we do with IIiHl
That indeed, o Great Britain, is n question
The worst, the most ungenerous thing is done
He shall be banishcd to st. Helena. The thing
is accomplished. On the 10th of October, 1915
the greatest military leader, and in many re
spects the most remarkable man who has ap
. was debarked on his desolato island, tha
"Petite Isle" with which he had concluded
r his school exercise at Autun, thirty six year
agol
Napoleon was not only exiled: he was i'm
prisoned. st. Helena was his prison. He wa
guarded. His masters watched him with crue
! surveillance for nearly six years. Under thci
sleepless eyes he dictated his "Memoirs' t.
Bertrand, conversed with his friends, or sough
an hour in solitude on the rocks near Long
o wood, looking out to the sea; His health II
4 length gave way. Though his constitution
was superb, there was an organic malad.
: which came, as it from his fathers grave, t.
e destroy him.. An ulcer of the s~tomach-symp
e toms of which had appeared at intervals for
d~ecade-began, its ravaSeS, and in a feV
Il months he sank away. 1t was on the 9Th O
May, 1921, in the midst of Il terrible tempes
desolating the island, that Napoleon died,
They gave him u grave under some WILLOW
trees, by a fountain in Slanc's valley. Their
Is for nineteen years and n half his body lay
until Il new generation rising from the Shad
# ows of Il revised Bourbonism, turned to tn
hero who, ut the beginning of the century, ha
made France the first of nations; to him VIII
had led her armies to victory and built TO
rope. On the 18th of December, 1910, the bod
Of the Emperor Napoleon, under the care c
|, the not ungallant sons of Louis philippe, wa
"A of his exile and death. The coffin with tn
IL Great Dust in 1t was taken in polnp and pas
ie cant unsurpassed through the streets of Pal
is, and deposited in the sarcophagus of darl
II red porphyry, to rest for times and a time III
ii der the magnificent dome of the Invalide,
There he reposes; and the Third Repubii
" guards him. JOHN A kIDPATH.
q A Plea For Soup.
u A learned doctor pleading for sou
d on every dinner table says: "A pei
u son comes to dinner weary and hun
cry and needs, first, something
a stimulate the s%ecretions of the stOn
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