Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-06

at La Haie Sainte. Inc right leg Is the high. way from Brussels to ChaFleroi. The intersec- tion 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-bsr and in the triangle between it and the clevis.
 The conflict began just before noon. The armies engaged were of equal strength, mum boring about 30, 900 men on each side. Napoleon was superior in artillery but Wellington's 8 sol diers had seen longer service in the field. They were his veterans from the Peninsulat War, perhaps the stUbb6fjiest fighters in Europe Nspoieon's first plan was t3 double back the allied left on the center. This involved the capture of La Haie Sainte, and as strategic corollary the taking of Hougomont. The lat; wood were carried; but the chateau was held in the midst of horrid carnage by the British under Bulow, about 10, 0O0 strong, came on the helds and Napoleon had to withdraw divi- sion from his center to repel the oncoming Ger. between La Haie sainte and Hopgenent; the battle rgged the lines sSSaying with tiIieettaiii British lines reeeded: WelHngton'S 'S attempt tS on the counterschaTRe called on Napoleon for reinforcements, and the latter at that moment changing his plan of battle, detsrmined to not as heavy IS 1t should have been, but the hand. and Napoleon sou Sought h3 to "Esrs sappoEt W hn with Milhauds cuirassiers and Q division of the British lines reeled and staggered, but still clung desperately to their position. They gave little. and then hung fast and could be moved no farther. In another part of the field Durutte carried the allied position of Pa pelotte, and Lobau routed Bulow from PlanT to portend disaster to the allies and victory to the French.
 Just at this iuncture, however, m uproar witnessed right, woods seemed to open, and the banners of Butcher bs m or 'as an sa S Ts Sn that it was then or never. His sun of Auster- htz hung low in the west. The British center phantom. He called out four battaiions of the
 fifteen years that Guard % had been thrown iRS aTs hundred times on the enemies of France, and never yet repulsed. It deemed itself invinci-
 At. seven o'clock, just as 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. Tho grim horsemen rode to their fate lanche. It plunged into the sunken road of O'Hain. It SC 3med to roll over. It rose from squares. They reeied under the shock; then reformed and stood fast. Around and around pire beat and beat in vain. It was the war of races at its climax It was the final death grip of the Ga9l and the Teuton: The Old Guard was heard above the roar of battle. Tho crisis of the Modern Era broke in blood and smoke, Guard was broken into fiyinS squadrone. Ruin game with the counter charge of the British. fNSsy lorGSS %o in his d,SSpa sought tO stay sl9 sf',3 to gods g ana S men, Five horses hA4 been He was covered with dust and bloed But his grim face was set against the victorious enc ly his shattered columns.
 Meanwhile tho Prussians rushed in from the Havoc came dewn with the G darknoss s cilsn sin gle regiment of the Old Guard was formed by rally the fugitives The Emperor % stood %f in the he midst and declared his purpose to die with them. Marshal Sou1t forced him out of the melee, and the famous square, commanded by Cambronne-hinging his profane objurgation into the teeth of the English-perished with the wild cry of Tive lEmpereurl
 On that spot French patriotism has planted a 2; bronze lion to eommemorate forever the ex- Empire and of Napoleon the Great. There the 5etane 5FeEe1eG from strange lands panscs at the casey or and Teeets wtR wondep ho@ ture could have been raised by the passion of played in these wheathelds and orchards where the Old Guard of Franco sank into oblivion. but rose to immortal fame.
 The rest may be briefly summarized Ma cate without conditions. lie becomes fugi- tive. On the 8rd of July we see him at Roche fort, on the western coast. He would fain patrol the Atlantic His mind is confused amid the wrcckss of his destiny. He changes his purpose, and throws himself the gener- osity of England. He claims to be a prisoner or pr var, and expects the treatment accorded & "te Van M ae s ro r uSFSy de5yae Hn h 6e BrsS are @ G what shall we do with Himl
 ,,, That indeed. Great Britain, is q question! The worst, the most ungenerous thing is done is accomplished. On the 16th of October, 1915 the greatest military leader, and in many re- spects the most remarkable man who has ap- peared in the world since the era of Christ was debarked on his desolate island, that ,Petlte isle- with which he had concluded ago!
 guarded. His masters watched him with cruel surveillance for nesSfy six years; Under their Bertrand, conversed with his friends, or sought an hour in solitude on tho rocks reer Long.
 to hi. Hs 3 was superb, there was sn organic malady which came, as if from his fathers grave, to toms Of which had appeared at intervals for decade-began, its ravages, and ip n few deSoiating the island, that Napoleon died:
 sa res7 ai n$T v.ss Tss heS for nineteen years and a half his body lay, until new generation, rising from the shad ows of revised Bour bonisnn, turned to the hero who at tho beginning of the century, had made France the first of nations: to him who had led her armies to victory and built for rope. On tho 18th of December is4O, tho body of the Emperor Napoleon, under tho care of the not ungallant sons of Louis Philippe, was brought back in state from the desolate island of his exile and death. The coffin with the Great Dust in it was taken in pomp and pag cant unsurpassed through the streets of Par Is, and deposited in the sarcophagus of dark red porphyry, to rest for times and Q time un- der the magnificent dome of the Invalides There he reposcs; and the Third Republic