Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-23
French Situation in 1892 a
Parallel to What Exists
Over There Today.
"COME BACK" OF REPUBLIC
Kerensky's Forces May Yet
Get Together and Drive
Back the Germans.
(By f.. r. TUCKER)

Many an American who has fol-
lowed this years history of the rout
OF the Russian army has lost all iv-
spect for such troops. He may even
have despaired of their ability to stop
running before they are utterly de-
stroyed Yet every modern republic,
including our own, began with a
panic stricken rout on the field Of
battle.
Washington's troops ran from tho
enemy at the battle of Long isianu
without firing a shot. This cowardice
threw away an entire years work. and
came near losing the war besides. Yet
these men later beat twice their num-
Der of Hessian troops at Trenton, and
captured CORVALLIS at Yorktown.
bringing the war to its glorious con-
clusion.
In our war of 1912 American troops
We're on the run from Lundy's Lane
to Washington; yet many of them
were with Jackson at New Orieahs
and helped win the only land victory
the signing of the peace treaty
Again in 1861 our Civil war began
with a disastrous rout at Bull Run OF
some OF the very soldiers who helped
stop Lee at Gettysburg. and helped
close the war at Appomattox.
Nearest Parallel.
But the nearest parallel with the
Russian situation today was that of
the French in 1892. On September
20 OF that year. after a summer cam
paign of confusion and cowardice, the
battle Of Valmy was won against the
combined strength of Prussian and
Austrian veteran troops This battIe
has new meaning today. II iirs'
determined the military character and
career of the French revolution, just
as last weeks announcement of the
Russian republic may mark the turn
of Russia against the invader Greasy :
story Of this great victory has become
classic, and we give here as H.
wrote 1t:
"A few miles distant from the little
town of st. Menehould in the nurtn-
east of France, are the village and
! hill OF Valmy; and near the crest OF
that hill a simple monument point
out the burial place of the heart of a
general Of the French republic and q
marshal of the French empire.
"The elder Kellerman (father of the
distinguished officer of that nan,e
whose cavalry charge decided the bat
tie of Marengo) held high commands
In the French armies thruout the wac.
of the Convention. the Directory, the
Consulate and the Empire. He sur
vived those wars. and the empire it-
self, dying in extreme old age In
1890. The last wish of the veteran
on his death-bed was that his heart
should be deposited i'm the battlefield
| of Valmy. there to repose among tnv
remains of his old companions In
arms. who had faHen at his side or
that spot 2s years before. on the
memorable day when they won the
primal victory of revolutionary
France. and prevented the armies OF
| Brunswick and the emigrant bands ol
Conde from marching on defenseles.
Paris and destroying the immature
| democracy in its cradle.
Citizens AwOkc.
The successful resistance wnici
the raw Carndgnole levies and the dis
organized relics of the old monarchy
army then opposed to the combined
hosts and chosen heads of Prussia
Austria and the French refugee no
| blesse, determined at once and forever
the beligerent character of the revo-
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