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Updated: May 12, 2025
Here stood a Prussian army under Blucher, and an Anglo-German one under Wellington, comprehending the Dutch under the Prince of Orange, the Brunswickers under their duke, the recruited Hanoverian Legion under Wallmoden. These corps d'armee most imminently threatened Paris. The main body of the allied army, under Schwarzenberg, then advancing from the south, was still distant.
He saw the Dutch and the Belgians and the Brunswickers rush wildly to the charge young men enthusiasts brave but men whose ranks had twice been broken to-day who twice had rallied to their colours and then had broken again men who were exhausted men who were none too ably led men in fact and there were many French royalists among their officers who had not the physical power of endurance which had enabled the British to astonish the world to-day.
Not only had Pelet's chasseurs held the Dutch and Brunswickers at bay, not only had their tirailleurs made deadly havoc among their assailants, but the latter now were threatened with absolute annihilation even whilst all around them their allies British and Prussian were crying "Victory!"
As soon as this was done two French columns of infantry, preceded by a battalion in line, advanced along the edge of the wood, while a heavy mass of cavalry advanced along the Ghent road, and threatened the Brunswickers with destruction. The Brunswick, Dutch, and Belgian skirmishers fell back before those of the French.
And in Brussels this afternoon thousands of our enemies Belgians, Dutch, Hanoverians, Brunswickers were rushing helter-skelter into the town demoralised and disorganised after that brilliant charge of our cuirassiers against the Allied left." "Would to God the British had been among them too," murmured old Colonel Bertrand. "But for their stand .
They also knew it, and fell to jesting in high good-humour as General Pack withdrew the brigade from the ground of its exploit and posted us in line with the 42nd and 44th regiments on the left of the main road to Charleroi. To the right of the Charleroi road, and some way in advance of our position, the Brunswickers were holding ground as best they could under a hot and accurate artillery fire.
'Do you see that sulky old Croat, smoking his pipe under the tree? 'No, he is a Black Brunswicker. 'Nonsense, Willie; the Black Brunswickers weren't till Bonaparte's time. 'I don't care, he is anything black and nasty; here goes! 'Oh stop; don't shoot. I believe he is only a vivandiere. Besides, it's treacherous 'I tell you he is laying a train to blow up the tower. There!
He walked swiftly along, gayly whistling "Donna e Mobile," with certain private variations of his own, until he reached the splendid monument erected to the miserly old Duke of Brunswick, who showered his scraped-up millions upon an alien city, to spite his own fat-witted Brunswickers, and so escaped the blood-fleshed talons of the hungry-Prussian eagle.
And her father, vaguely thinking that she was anxious about Maurice vaguely wondering that she cared so much had done his best to try and comfort her: "She need not fear much for Maurice," he had told her as reassuringly as he could "the Brunswickers were not likely to suffer much. The brunt of the conflict would fall upon the British. Ah! but they would lose very heavily.
He said he thought that by losing Canningites and Brunswickers it was fifty weaker than Lord Liverpool's, and these fifty go the other way, making a difference of one hundred on a division. Lord Camden thought if the Brunswickers would not come in we must get a few Whigs Abercromby, Sir James Graham, the Althorpe people. Stanley would come for anything good, and Brougham too.
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