The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-10-27
RECORD OF BRITISH SOLDIER
IS ONE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT
Has Engaged Oftener and Won Offences Than All Eu-
rope-Nothing That Suggests Decadence About HIS
Prowess-His Advance Almost Constant.

nearest-run thing you ever
saw in your life. Blucher lost $4,000
on Friday night, and got SO damnably
licked | could not find him on Satur-
day morning.; so l was obliged to fall
back to keep up my communications
with him Then. as we walked about,
he praised greatly those guards Who
had kept the farm against the repeat
ed attacks of the French; and then
he praised all our troops, uttering re-
peated expressions of astonlshment at
our mems courage. He repeated SO
often its being so nice a
nearly-run a thing that [ asked him
if the French had fought better than
he had ever seen them do before.
No he said. they have always fought
1.-The same since l first saw them at
Vimeira.' Then he said: BY God, |
don't think it would have been done if
l had not been there"
Rough and FOuI-Nouthed."
Many of the British soldiers at
Waterloo a been with Wellington
in his PeninSular campaign. Sir
Thomas PiCton, the general on whom
he placed the greatest dependence at
| Waterloo, had been with him in Spain
and Portugal. Wellington said Of
Picton: He's as rough and foul
| mouthed a devil as ever lived
Picton was killed at WaterlOo-shot
through the head-and he was com
handing thousands of the same sort
Of men hat he had often sworn at.
This is not to be an account of
Waterloo-just a few words of de-
scription Of the British soldier fight
ing there. In tabloid the battle was
fought at it's most centralized point by
6S, 900 troops led by Wellington and
Napoleon, with $4,000 men. The
English commander had 1856 guns, the
French 246. There is eternal argu-
ment as to what the outcome would
have been had not Butcher, with 80
900 men, arrived to reinforce Wei
lington at 6 p. m. Twelve miles or so
away Napoleon's general Grouchy,
with $4,000 men, failed to march to
until 1880 p. m. IN the immortal June
IS, 1915, the French hurled thousands
against the allies ard were as con-
stantly repulsed. IN points Ma
poleon would score because of having
been the aggressor. Toward the last
the left of the allies line seemed to
waver.
"And Butcher Came"
Wellington was heard to mutter:
would that night or the Prussians
would comet" But Butcher came.
Napoleon tried the Old Guard last and
they charged up to the thin red line
awaiting their onslaught grimly de-
termined. RepulSe, and then a san.
culinary pursuit by moonlight Of the
fleeing French. The British losses
were $4,000 and the Prussian 1000
The French suffered to the extent O,
$1,000.
No matter what Wellington though
OF the animating spirit Of British
valor, it is a fact that in the battlt
of Waterloo he placed British troop;
at the pivotal or crucial points. 1t wa;
= tho Unnrdc Of Maitland noc+oi =. = L
, cornfield along W~ellington's battl,
: ridge that sprang to answer tn,
dukes famous command, Cup
/, Guards, and at them!" when Ma
poleon's celebrated fighters wer
! within twenty PAGES. The first vol
ley by n British soldiers killed 80
French. The red coats fired wit
wavered. The British soldier for tn
first time that fatal day became tn
aggressor and drove Napoleon's crac,
battallons down the ridge.
The British Square.
The bearing and behavior of tn
a British soldier were illustrated at a
o important point of the battle whe
. Ney gathered together 5000 magni
q lcent horsemen, and placing himsel
q at their head, charged. Instead of be
ing appalled, at the advance of tn
~gallopping host, it is recorded tina tn
British soldiers felt rather relieve
that it was not infantry comm
n against them. Calmly the BIRTHS
h were formed into squares, with the
,e guns placed on the crest Of the ridg
d Neys men rode against the artiller
d and captured it. But the square
poured such a steady. murderous fiji
V, IN on them, they were forced to r.
treat down the slope.
rs Gen. Relies Prophecy.
l. Wellington knew the French in
l. petuoslty of attack from his penrns,
Is lar experiences. He had evolved
Q. system of tactics specially to resi-
is them. AT Waterloo he placed h
OF hrst line of infantry behind a rids
re so that it might be invisible befol
the attack n during the attae
IN itself. Not until the ~assaiNs hs
ne reached the very top OF the ridge, co
S: fused by the fire of skirmishers ar
artillery, did the line Of soldiers r
'e, veal itself, firing point blank at sho
n range and following up with a bay