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Updated: May 29, 2025
Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" "I?" said the soldier, "ah! not to amount to anything. At Marengo, I received two sabre-blows on the back of my neck, a bullet in the right arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena.
That was the 'gaude! They tugged and pulled, and beat my back with the flat of their sabres: it was something glorious!" "Well, how did you escape?" I asked, not finding that entertainment to the accompaniment of sabre-blows so glorious. "When I saw a carriage approaching, I leaped out from their midst and climbed up behind: nor did they give me a long chase. I soon got away from them."
Before the eyes of their wives, their children, and their mothers, all the men of the tribe, more than five hundred in number, were killed and their heads put into sacks. The howling and weeping women and children were driven to Cairo. Many perished of hunger on the road, or died beneath the sabre-blows of their enemies; but more than a thousand succeeded in reaching Cairo.
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