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

mdue gaps IN tne ranks OF the cuIraS
S siers; the cuirassiers made breache
t in the squares. Files of men disap
a peared, ground down beneath tn
/. horses feet.
The cuirassiers, relatively few il
: number, lessened by the catastrophe
: of the rayine, had to contend with al
most the whole of the English army
but they multiplied themselves-ea
: man became equal to ten. Neverthe.
} less, some Hanoverian battalions fell
back. Wellington saw it, and remem-
bered his cavalry. Had Napoleon at
that very moment remembered his in
fantry he would have won the battle.
This forgetfulness was his great, ia
tai blunder. Suddenly the assailing
cuirassiers perceived that they were
assailed The English cavalry was
upon their backs Before them the
squares, behind them Somerset-S Som
erset, with the 400 dragon guards.
Somerset had on his right Domberg
with his German light horse, and on
his left Trip, with the Belgian car
blneers. The cuirassiers, attacked,
front, flank and rear by infantry and
! cavalry, were compelled to face in all
directions. What was that to them
They were a whirlwind. Their valor
became unspeakable. The cuirassiers
annihilated seven squares out of 10,
took or spiked so pieces of cannon,
and took from the English regiments
six colors, which three cuirassiers and
three chasseurs of the guard carried
to the emperor before the farm of La
Belle Alliance. The situation of We'll
llngton was growing worse. This
strange battle was like duel between
two wounded infuriates. who, while
yet fighting and resisting, lose all !
their blood. Which of the two shall |
fall first?
At o'clock wellington drew out |
his watch, and was heard to murmur I
these somber words, "Blucher, or
night" 1t was about this time that
a distant line of bayonets glistened
on the heights beyond Frichemont.
Here is the turning point in this colos-
sal drama.
The rest is known; the Eruption of
a third army; the battle thrown out
Of joint; eighty-six pieces of artillery
laundering FORTH a new bat
tie falling at nightfall upon our dis
mantled regiments; the whole Enc
ish line assuming the offensive, and
pushing forward; the gigantic gap
made in the French army; the Eng
ish grape and Prussian grape lending
mutual aid; determination, disaster
n front, disaster in flank; the guard
into line amid the terrible
Feeling that they were
going to their death, they cried out,
iVive 'PEmpereur" There is nothing
more touching in history than this
'eath agony bursting fourth in ac-
Each battalion of the guard, for
his final effort, was commanded by
General. When the tall caps of the
of the guard, with their
arge eagle plates, appeared, SYM
letrical, drawn up in line. calm, in
he smoke of that conflict, the enemy
cit respect for Franch. They thought
hey saw twenty victories entering
pom the field of battle, with wings
and those who were con-
uerors. thinking themselves conquer :
d, recoiled; but Wellington cried:
Cup. guards, and at them!"
The red regiment of English
yards. lying behind the hedges, rose
p. A shower of grape riddled the
'i-colored flag futtering about our
igles; all hurled themselves forward,
nd the final carna"e began. The I'M
erial Guard felt the army slipping a
ay around them in the gloom and in
lie vast overthrow of the rout; they
card the "sauve qui puetW which
Id replaced the give PEmpereurw
Id, with fight behind them, they
I'D on their course, battered more
I'd more, and dying faster and
ster, at every step. There were no
eak souls or towards there. The
'ivates of that band were as heroic
their general. Not man finch
from suicide.
The rout behind the guard was dis
al. The army fell back rapidly
was followed by the cry,
auve qui peut" A disbanding army :
a thaw. The whole bends cracks, ~
APPS, floats, rolls, falls, crashes, hur-
IS, plunges. Mysterious disintegra-
m Napoleon gallops along the fug-
YES, harangues them, urges, threa-
rs, retreats. The mouths which in
e morning were crying give PEm-
reur" are nav agape. He is
rdly recognized.
The Prussian cavalry, just come up,
ring forward, fling themselves up-
the enemy, saber, cut, hack, kill,
Teams rush off; the
ms are left to the care of them
yes; the soldiers of the train un-
oh the caisson and take the horses
escape; wagons upset, with their
If wheels in the air, block up the
I'd and are accessories of massacre.
ey rush and crowd; they trample
on the living and the dead. Arms
, broken A multitude fills roads,
tbs, bridges, plains, hills, valleys,
DDS, choked up by the fight of forty -
'usand men. Cries, despair; KNAPP
ks and muskets cast into the grow
|. rye; passage forced at the point
the sword; no more comrades, no
re officers; no more generals; in
)ressible dismay.
IN the gathering night, on a field
If Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand
zed by flap of his coat and stop
| a haggard, thoughtful gloomy
n, who dragged thus far by the
rent of the rout, had dismounted,
;sed the bride of his horse under
orn, apd With bauril darad owe n