The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-09-13

and on to Berlin. the River Spree washer
no walls more picturesque than those OF
the little city Of BautZen, whose quaint
I 5ssdfy towers , stood witness to to the
as they swirled for two days about the
hillocks that rise from the countryside.
In the fighting on the first day, Napo-
leon drove the Gar and the allies out of
the town, and that night the camphres
OF his army formed a flaming line nine
miles long. At in the morning OF the
second DAY ne was in the saddle and nd
nouneed to them that the battle was wo-
The chimes were Sounding in the beIfry
Of the cathedral Of Bautzen, where FOR
nearly 800 years now Catholics and
Protestants have used the sane .Itar
when the Gar ordered the defeated am
OF the alliance to retreat through the
SIesian gorges.
The losses of both sides together az
gregated not far from 5000. NanoIso,
had won another victory as coStIy sTS
oootless as that Of Lutzen. For throIIrb
a misunderstanding OF orders on the mart
OF Ney the Russians and Prussiars, who
could and should have been shut ~, 90
smashed. made good their escane La
Ing not button or a nail in the hands
Of the victor.
Death of Duroc.
The Emperor FASTENED after the ieeins
allies the next day in an effort to re-
! trieve the mistake and destroy the re-
treating army. While he was in hot MIR
sun, a Russian gun was trained upon
MIN and a ball Kissed in his ear as il
tore past him to lay low Ouroc, the grand
marshal Of the palace. who was riding
few yards behind him
Napoleon turned to see his devoted
servitor writhing in pain from a mortal
and hideous wound The order was civ
en- 10 cease hiring, and the Emperor re-
turning to his camp. seated himself in
midst Nh h.,
dered TO his emotions Of grief over the
loss OF an inseparable companion in all
the campaigns of the empire. His gen
erals came up to receive orders for FOL
lowing the allies. but his only reply was,
Tomorrow. everything"
No other man but Berthier had been so
closely associted with him, and Berthier
Duroc, he used to say, loves me as a
dog loves his master" And faithful even
in the grave. he lies at the gate of his
masters tomb in the Invalides.
The Fatal Truce.
The Russians and Prussians, when Ma
poleon resumed the chase in the morn
ing continued to flee before him. while
they quarreled among themselves. He
had been in the field only five weeks and
had won two great battles. swept back
the enemy from the Saale TO the Oder, a
distance Of more than 200 miles, and filled
the counsels Of the allies With dissension
But although he had 100000 men at his
command against not mora than $50 COO.
he despaired Of overwhelming this small
er force without horses for his cavalry.
and he was ready therefore to welcome a
pause in the campaign. He had found II
harder to get horses than men-or boys
Moreover, he was fast driving his foes
upon the Austrian frontier and into the
arms Of his father-in-law, who. he feared,
would thus be drawn into the alliance
against him.
In the presence Of that delicate situa-
ton he did a thing alien to Napoleonic
warfare-he dropped his hands and stop
ped fighting. Accepting the mediation Of
Austria, he entered into an armistice with
the Gar and the King OF Prussia for two
and q half months, a truce that was to
prove fatal to his cause.
Copyright. lsl5lsl4 BY James MorEanJ