Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-04-16
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palestine,s Waterloo.

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Palestine's Waterloo.
1t was most exciting day 7 spent on
the battlefield of Waterloo. Starting
out with the morning train from
Brussels, we arrived in about an
hour on that famous spot. A son of one
who was in tho battle and who had
heard from his father thousand times
the whole scene recitcd accompanied US
over the field There stood the old
Hougomont chateau, the walls dented
and scratched and broken and shattered
by grapeshot and cannon ball. There is
the well in which 800 dying and dead
were pitched. There is the chapel with
the head of the infant Christ shot off.
There are tho gates at which, for many
hours, English and French armies wres
tied. Yon,!or were the 100 guns of the
English aud The ESQ guns of the French
Yonder tho Eauoverian hussars fed for
the woods.
Yonder was the raviro Of Chain,
where the French cavalry, not know
ing there WIS hollow in the ground,
rolled over and down, troop after troop.
tumbling into one awful mass Of suffer.
ing, hoof Of kicking horses against brow
and breast of captains and colonies and
private soldiers, the human and the
beastly groan kept up until the day after
all was sbocelcd under because Of the
malodor arising in that hot month of
June.
"Thero, said our guide, "the high
land regiments lay down on their faces
waiting for the moment to spring upon
the foe. In that orchard 2, 500 men were
cut to pieces. Here stood Wellington
with white lips, and up that knoll rode
Marshal Ney on his sixth horse, five
having been shot under him. Here the
ranks of the French broke and Marshal
Ney, with his boot slashed of sword,
and his hat off, and his face covered
with powder and blood, tried to rally
his troops as he cried, Come and see
how q marshal of French dies on the
battlefield. From yonder direction
Grouchy was expected for the French
enforcement, but he came not.
Around those woods Butcher was looked
for to re- enforce the English, and just
in time he came up Yonder is the field
where Napoleon stood, his arms through
the reins of the horse's bride, dazed
and insane, trying to go back Scene
of battle that went on from 20 min
utes to IL o'clock on the 18th of June
until 4 o'clock, when the English
seemed defeated, and their commander
cried out: "Boys, you can't think OF
giving way? Remember old England"
and the tides turned, and at s O'Clock
in the evening the man of destiny, who
was called by his troops Old Two Hun
dred Thousand, turned away with bro
ken heart. And the fate of centuries was
decided.
No wonder great mound has been
reared there, hundreds of feet high-a
mound at the expense of millions of dol
lars and many years in rising, and on
the top is the great Belgian lion Of
bronze and a grand old lion it is. But
our great Waterloo was in Palestine.
There came day when all hell rode
up, led by Apollyon, and the Captain Of
our salvation confronted them alone,
the Rider on the white horse of the
Apocalypse going out against the black
horse cavalry of death and the bat
talions of the demoniac and the myrmi-
dons of darkness. From IL o'clock at
noon to o'clock in the afternoon the
greatest battle of the universe went on.
Eternal destinies were being decided.
All the arrows of hell pierced our Chief
tain and the battleaxes struck him un-
til brow and check and shoulder and
hand and foot were incarnadined with
oozing life, but he fought Oh until he
gave final stroke with sword from
Jehovah's bucliler, and the commander
in chief of hell and all his forces fell
back in everlasting ruin, and the vic
tory is ours. And on the mound that
celebrates the triumph we plant this
day two figures, not in brcrze or iron
or sculptured marble, but two figures OF
living light, the lion of Judah's tribe
and the Lamb that was slain.