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"Rally the Consular guard, and carry it with you to the extreme right you understand? in a square, Roland! and stop that column like a stone redoubt." There was not an instant to lose. Roland sprang upon his horse, took the two regiments of grenadiers, rallied the Consular guard, and dashed to the right. When he was within fifty feet of General Elsnitz's column, he called out: "In square!
Onward he dashed, till he reached an ammunition wagon surrounded by the enemy; then, without pausing an instant, he thrust the hand holding the pistol through the opening of the wagon and fired. A frightful explosion followed, a volcano had burst its crater and annihilated those around it. General Elsnitz's corps was in full flight; the rest of the Austrian army swayed, retreated, and broke.
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