This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... tersected by the lane that runs to the farm of Mont St. Jean a+ A retrograde movement began, the English front withdrew. Wellington was recoiling. "It is the beginning of the retreat, ' Napoleon cried. Napoleon in Good Humor HE emperor, though ill and suffering on horseback from a local injury, had ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... tersected by the lane that runs to the farm of Mont St. Jean a+ A retrograde movement began, the English front withdrew. Wellington was recoiling. "It is the beginning of the retreat, ' Napoleon cried. Napoleon in Good Humor HE emperor, though ill and suffering on horseback from a local injury, had never been so goodtempered as on this day. s From the morning his impenetrability had been smiling, and on June 18, 1815, this profound soul, coated with granite, was radiant. The man who had been sombre at Austerlitz was gay at Waterloo s The greatest predestined men offer these contradictions, for our joys are a shadow and the supreme smile belongs to God. s Ridet Caesar, Pompeius flebit, the legionaries of the Fulminatrix legion used to say. On this occasion Pompey was not destined to weep, but it is certain that Caesar laughed s At one o'clock in the morning, amid the rain and storm, he had explored with Bertrand the hills near Rossomme, and was pleased to see the long lines of English fires illumining the horizon from Frischemont to Braine 1'Alleud. It seemed to him as if destiny had made an appointment with him on a fixed day and was punctual so He stopped his horse, & remained for some time motionless, looking at the lightning and listening to the thunder. The fatalist was heard to cast into the night the mysterious words, --"We are agreed." Napoleon was mistaken, they were no longer agreed. He had not slept for a moment; all the instants of the past night had been marked with joy for him $+ He rode through the entire line of main guards, stopping every now and then to speak to the videttes. At half-past two he heard the sound of a marching column near Hougomont, and believed for a moment in a retreat on the side of Wellington. He...
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