The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-01-14
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condolences. For the fact is, that
there has hardly been a European war
On big scale in which General Jack
Frost has not taken a hand
Go back century. Eighteen hun
dred and twelve was the year when
Nepolean made up his mind to invade
Russia. Before starting he was care
full to inquire of the experts as to
what date winter usually set in in
southern Russia. They told him the
middle Of December.
1t was on June "a that he invaded
Russia with 100000 men, and he
reached Moscow on September IA.
That night fire broke out and within
five days the city was burned to the
ground. Even then he remained until
October IS before commencing his re-
treat.
In the last week of October began the
worst frost which Europe had known
for three generations. The Thames
froze from its source to the sea. The
Seine, the Rhine, the Danube were all
lce-bound. On the Adriatic, off Ven
ice, was seen the amazing sight of
hoatlng ice foes. The Hellespont and
Frost's icy fingers lay heavy even upon
North Africa. Drift ice appeared in
the Nile, and there were snow storms
In Tripoli and Morocco.
AS for Napoleon's huge army, it was
almost wiped out. Four hundred thou
sand men perished. They froze to
death in battlalions as they biyouaek-
ed and when at last, ON December. s.
Napoleon reached German soil out of
his whole vast host but 10000 mea
left alive.
~ During thes winter of 1854 the
forks were battling for dear life
along the Danube against hordes of
Russians IN the following sepssm-5
bar aS.eea British troops. a similar
number: Of French and 5000 Turks
we're landed in the Crimea.
Again came a terrible winter, and
from the west of Ireland right across
into Asia, frost fell heavy on land and
sea. In London it froze for six weeks
without a break. From FEBRUARY IA to
FEBRUARY "a the thermometer was be-
low freezing every night. In the Cri-
nlea the cold vas fearful and our
army, disgracefully catered for, suf-
fered horribly. In all we lost 2o,056
men, and of these only 12 per cent fell
in battle. The rest were defeated by
cold and disease, aggravated by rot
ten commissariat.
In 1870 came the biggest war Of the
latter half of the nineteenth century,
the titanic conflict between France and
Germany BY October 19 there were
$4,000 German troops in France,
Paris was beseiged, and there began
the four months investment, with fu-
rious fighting on both sides. Again
Jack Frost came to the aid of the Ger
mans. A long spell of Intense cold
made life almost impossible for the
half starved French while the Ger
mans, who had the whole country to
draw on, beside their own excellent
commissariat, suffered very little. By
January, the city was in such terri
BILE condition that it surrendered.
The date of the late great war in
which Turkey was engaged was 1877.
The TURKS were attacked by an enor-
mously superior force of Russians,
with the czar himself in command
Osman Pasha, with 10000 men, hur-
ried inland to Pieva, a village which
stood upon a hill, and there hastily
entrenched himself The Russians had
100000 men, but Osman and his
dauntless band defeated them in four
successive battles.
In November winter set in three
weeks earlier than usual. The turks
had no winter clothing, and little to
eat but rnaize-porridge and horse
flesh. They suffered fearfully. At last
on December 9, they determined to
break out. There were only 10000
left, but their rush was so tremend-
Gus that they carried three lines OF
Russian trenches before they were
surrounded, and forced by enormous
iy superior numbers to surrender un-