hierches

Updated: May 21, 2025

Some of the men were taken prisoners and some were drowned in trying to swim across the river. This was all that Martin told me; he had no news from home. That same day we passed through Givet; the battalion bivouacked near the village of Hierches half a league farther on.

Erckmann-Chatrian - Waterloo: A sequel to The Conscript of 1813