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Updated: June 29, 2025
The Austrians had rendered themselves universally unpopular by their arbitrary measures, and each province remained stupidly indifferent to the threatened pillage of its neighbor by the victorious French. Jourdan but slowly tracked the retreating forces of Coburg, whom he again beat at Sprimont, where he drove him from the Maese, and at Aldenhoven, where he drove him from the Roer.
They are less brave in those districts where they have been "jaged" by the courageous and stalwart boor with his long loud-cracking "roer." Whether the one, before the eyes of our party, was naturally a brave one, could not yet be told. He was one with a huge black mane, or "schwart-fore life," as the boors term it; and these are esteemed the fiercest and most dangerous.
Handing the roer he was carrying to one of his sons, after much fumbling he produced a book from his pocket, in which the place was marked with a piece of grass. "Now then," he said, "be silent, all, and show respect, for remember I am not a man just now.
Grasping his roer by the barrel, he prepared to defend himself, intending to use the weapon as a club. The enraged creature was about to make a spring upon him, when assistance came from a quarter altogether unexpected. One of the dogs a large bull-dog called "Smoke" had not followed the buffaloes to cover. It had obeyed its master's command when called back from the chase.
His long roer was laid over a knot in the trunk its muzzle pointed at the forehead of the advancing elephant his eye gleamed through the sights the loud detonation followed and a cloud of smoke for a moment hid everything from his view.
Over his saddle lay a "kaross," or robe of leopard-skins, and upon his shoulder he carried his "roer" a large smooth-bore gun, about six feet in length, with an old-fashioned flint-lock, quite a load of itself.
This is the gun in which the boer puts all his trust; and although an American backwoodsman would at first sight be disposed to laugh at such a weapon, a little knowledge of the boer's country would change his opinion of the "roer." His own weapon the small-bore rifle, with a bullet less than a pea would be almost useless among the large game that inhabits the country of the boer.
There is a pool of water out there, go and bathe your arm, and I will bind it up again." He went, still wondering, and a few minutes later returned, his face and head dripping, and whispered: "Give me the gun. There is a reed buck standing close by. I saw it through the mist; we'll have a jolly breakfast off him." She handed him the roer, and crept after him out of the cave.
His long roer was laid over a knot in the trunk its muzzle pointed at the forehead of the advancing elephant his eye gleamed through the sights the loud detonation followed and a cloud of smoke for a moment hid everything from his view.
Valence took Namur, Labourdonnaie Antwerp; and by the middle of December, the invasion of the Netherlands was completely achieved. The French army, masters of the Meuse and the Scheldt, went into their winter quarters, after driving beyond the Roer the Austrians, whom they might have pushed beyond the Lower Rhine. From this moment hostilities began between Dumouriez and the Jacobins.
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