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Geneva on the 20th, and back to Vevay on the 21st. Thence to Besancon, Belfort, and Nancy. 27th, Metz. Drove round the fields of battle of Gravelotte and St. Privat. To Brussels, by Luxembourg. Bought furniture at Brussels for Foxholes. Home by Antwerp on September 1st. October 7th. To Bournemouth, to look over Foxholes. 26th, Timsbury. November 20th. House nearly finished.
It was the actual course of events which transcended experience and set all probabilities at defiance. The battle of Gravelotte, or St. Privat, on the 18th completed the work so hardily begun by the 3rd German corps on the 16th.
And where you upbraid us With the poore means we have to feed, not cloath us, Forgetting at how deere a rate we buy The triffles we have from you, thus I answeare: Noe Cuntrie ere made a defensive war And gaind by it but you. What privat Gentleman That onely trailes a pike, that comes from England Or Fraunce, but brings gold with him which he leaves here And so enriches you? Bar.
Though the distance was no more than a mile through the wooded valley on the right of the highway, his all-important reinforcement had not yet arrived at seven o'clock, and Marshal Canrobert, who was hardly able, by the most strenuous efforts, to check the advance of the Prussians, decided to rally his troops closer to the fortified town of St.-Privat.
He says, "The grandest illustration of Moltke's strategy was the battle of Gravelotte-Saint Privat; but the battle of Gravelotte has taught us one thing, and that is, the best strategy cannot produce good results if tactics is at fault." The right kind of tactics is not improvised. It asserts itself in the presence of the enemy but it is learned before meeting the enemy.
Privat, the Guards moving against the front, the Saxons against the flank. When the order was issued the two corps were not more than two miles apart. The tract of country which lay between them was perfectly open, the roads were free, and inter-communication seemed easy in the extreme.
In what striking contrast stood the magnificent goblets of delicate porcelain and other costly materials, in which the officers of the Chinese Expedition offered champagne to their French comrades, to that broken-footed glass cup out of which and in abominably bad wine King William drank to the victors of St. Privat!
The sergeant-major and his sister-in-law were invited to a fête which the military society, "The Fellow-Soldiers of 1870-1," were arranging in memory of the battle of St. Privat. The programme included music, theatricals, and dancing. Towards evening a fanfare of trumpets summoned the guests to the festival-play.
It was a sacrifice of life as unnecessary as that of the Prussian Guard before St. Privat. At the same time, that General Hill did wrong in crossing the Chickahominy before he heard of his colleague's approach is not a fair accusation. To have lingered on the south bank would have been to leave Jackson to the tender mercies of the Federals should they turn against him in the forest.
"And he not here!" said Ursula, taking the volume to read the passage. "The siege of Privat was remarkable for the loss of a great number of officers. Two brigadier-generals died there namely, the Marquis d'Uxelles, of a wound received at the outposts, and the Marquis de Portes, from a musket-shot through the head. The day the latter was killed he was to have been made a marshal of France.
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