The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-09-24

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quality-that, all luminous as
- it is, and precisely because il
is luminous, it often casts q
shadow just where we saw radiance
Everybody knows the first phase OF
this battle; the difficult opening, un-
certain, hesitating, threatening for
both armies, but for the English still
more than for the French. 1t had
rained all night; the ground was soft
ened by the shower; water lay here
and there in the hollows of the plain
as in basins; at some points the
wheels sank in to the axles; the hors-
es' girths dripped with liquid mud;
had not the wheat and rye spread
down by that multitude of advancing
carts filled the ruts and made bed
under the wheels, all movement, par
ticularly in the valleys on the side
of Papelotte, would have been i'm
possible.
Wellington, anxious but impossible,
was on horseback, and remained there
the whole day in the same attitude, a
little in front of the old mill of Mont
st. Jean. The balls rained down. His
Gordon, had just fallen
bursting shell, said: "My lord, what
are your instructions and what orders
10 you leave us if you allow yourself
TO be killed." 'To follow my exam
ple," answered Wellington. To Gin
ION he said laconically, "Hold this spot I
10 the last man" The day was clear
y going badly. Wellington cried to
lis old companions of Talavera, Wit
bria and Salamanca:
"Boys, we must not be beat What
Eould they say of US in England?"
About o'clock the English line
taggered backward. All at once only
he artillery and the sharpshooters
yere seen on the crest of the plateau,
he rest disappeared; the regiments,
riven by the shells and bullets of the
'rench, fell back into the valley now
rossed by the COW path of the farm ;
Mont st. Jean; a retrograde move
lent took place, the battle front of
lie English was slipping away, We'll
ngton gave ground beginning re-
'eat!" cried Napoleon. &
At the moment when Wellington {
rev back, Napoleon started up. He s
NV the plateau of Mont st. Jean sud-
nglish army disappear. 1t rallied, /
1t kept concealed. The flash of r
Glory passed into his eyes. The n
nperor rose up and reflected. Well Ii
gton had fallen back. 1t remained 4
lly to complete this repulse by il
ushing charge. Napoleon, turning e
,ruptly, sent courier at full speed c
Paris to announce that the battle g
as won. :"
Napoleon was one of those geniuses n
40 rule the thunder He had found q
S thunderbolt He ordered Milhaud's G.
irassiers to carry the plateau of
ont st. Jean. Il
They were three thousand five hun @
ed. They formed a line of half a q
lie. They were gigantic men on la
Iossal horses. They charged and m
an was seen a fearful sight All II
IS cavalry, with sabers drawn, BAN fe
RS waving and trumpets sounding, IL
rmed in column by divisions, de- VI
,nded with an even movement and el
one man the hill of La Belle ALI al
ce, sank into the formidable depth &c
ere so many men had already fall
disappeared in the smoke, then
ing from this valley of shadow re- 81
oeared on the other side, still COM III
t and serrled, mounting at full tr
t, through cloud of grape empty ca
itself upon them, the frightful ac ar
yity of mud of the plateau of Mont. pc
Jean. w:
All at once, tragic to relate, at the tn
. of the English, and on our right, he
head of the column of cuirase'ais ha
red with frightful clamor Arrived an
the eliminating point Of the crest, he
full of fury, and bent an
N the determination of the squares fla
cannons, the cuirassiers saw be- we
zen themselves and the English a pr
Ia grave. 1t was the sunken as
d of Chain. ed
t was a frightful moment. There
the ravine, unlocked for, yawn- ms
at the very feet of the horses, "T
fathoms deep between its double IS,
,es. The second rank pushed in the is
t, the third pushed in the second; sn;
horses reared, threw themselves RE
r, fell upon their backs, and strug- ito
| with their feet in the air, piling iii,
and overturning their riders; no ter
-er to retreat The whole column the
nothing but a projectile. The pel
e acquired to crush the English hal
she'd the French.
he inexorable ravine could not sn,
d until it was flied; riders and on
;es rolled together pellmell, grind ext
each other, making common flesh on,
his dreadful gulf; and when the Sell
We was full of living rnen, the rest hit
over them and passed on. Almost 70
ird of Dubois's brigade sank into fou
abyss. Here the loss of the bat roa
began. Tn,
here are moments in battle when nnC
soul hardens man, even to chang are
the soldier into statue, and all NAT
flesh becomes granite. The Eng wo,
battalions, desperately assailed, tbo
not yield an inch, Then it was sac
htful. All sides of the English Inc,
res were attacked at once, A Of
'lwind of frenzy enveloped them mo,
frigid infantry remained impass- own
he first rank, with knee on the
md, received the cuirassiers on nea
: bayonets, the second shot them SCI,
n; behind the second rank, the pea
oneers loaded their guns, the ma
{ of the square opened, made way cur
an eruption of grape and closed pas
n. The cuirassiers answered by ms