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Updated: June 17, 2025
At nine o'clock the Austrians formed their columns of attack on the Caunewitz road, and poured down on us from all sides. Nevertheless we held our own until about ten o'clock, and then were forced back to the old ramparts, through the breaches of which the Kaiserliks pursued us under the cross-fire of the Fourteenth and Twenty-ninth of the line.
Passing it by, Katharine's maid's brother should thrust his hand in at the door and cry 'a pox on all stinking Kaiserliks and Papists, and he should cast the paper at that cook's head. Then out would come master cook to his door and claim reparation. And for reparation Margot's brother Ned should buy such viands as the cook should offer him.
They were bronzed as veterans, and scarcely seemed able to stand. The old man, in a moment, continued his questions: "You were wounded?" "Yes, veteran, at Lutzen." "Four months in the hospital!" said he, whistling; "what luck! I have just returned from Spain, flattering myself that I was going to meet the Kaiserliks of 1807 once more sheep, regular sheep but they have become worse than guerillas.
Old Pinto, who recognized them at once, cried: "Those fellows are the kaiserliks! We have beaten them fifty times since 1793; but if the father of Marie Louise had a heart, they would be with us now instead of against us." For some moments a cannonade had been going on at the other side of the city, where Blücher was attacking the faubourg of Halle.
Kaiserliks and the Cossacks do not need spectacles to see that he is with us; they will feel him presently." And the sergeant's laugh rang hoarsely from beneath his long mustaches. I had a presentiment that great misfortunes might be coming upon me, yet I was forced to put a good face upon it.
We still kept up our fire, but hopelessly, when we heard the clatter of hoofs without. The firing ceased, and we saw through the smoke four squadrons of lancers dashing like a troop of lions through the midst of the Austrians. All yielded before them. The Kaiserliks fled, but the long, blue lances, with their red pennons, were swifter than they, and many a white coat was pierced from behind.
He had just received a bullet in the breast, but the old man's warrior soul was still strong within him, as he cried: "Defend yourselves, conscripts! Defend yourselves! Show the Kaiserliks that a French soldier is yet worth four of them! ah the villains!" We heard the sound of blows on the door below thundering like cannon-shot.
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