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All this took place while Jeanty Sarre and Charpentier were carrying the wounded man to the ambulance in the Rue du Cadran. His wounds having been attended to, they came back to the barricade. They had just reached it when they heard themselves called by name. A feeble voice close by said to them, "Jeanty Sarre! Charpentier!"
This Gendral Ney, who is now one of the principal commanders under Bonaparte in Germany, was a bankrupt tobacconist at Strasburg in 1790, and is the son of an old-clothes man of Sarre Louis, where he was born in 1765.
On the whole, the road had been more lonely than he liked and he was glad of company. Outside the Lamberts' cottage a small crowd had collected. From the crest of the hill the tiny bell of Acol church struck the hour of two. Squire Boatfield had ridden over from Sarre, and Sir Marmaduke as he dismounted caught sight of the heels and crupper of the squire's well-known cob.
The second barricade was stronger than the first. These men nearly all wore coats. Some of them rolled the paving-stones with gloves on. Few workmen were amongst them, but those who were there were intelligent and energetic. These workmen were what might be termed the "pick of the crowd." Jeanty Sarre had rejoined them; he at once became their leader.
Schleswig, that Bismarck stole, will be given to Denmark. The Poles will get part of East and West Prussia, Posen and Silesia. The coal mines in the Sarre Basin go to France, to make up for the destruction of French coal mines at Lens. Germany's got to give back ton for ton the shipping sunk by her submarines.
Jeanty Sarre showed him how to load a gun. "They take their meals at a wine-seller's at the corner, and they warm themselves there. It is very cold. The wine-seller says, 'Those who are hungry, go and eat. A combatant asked him, 'Who pays? 'Death, was the answer. And in truth some hours afterwards he had received seventeen bayonet thrusts.
The mainstay of the defence of Canada was, however, the disciplined strength of the French regulars. There were eight battalions, belonging to seven regiments whose names deserve to be held in honour wherever the fight for Canada is known: La Reine, Guienne, Bearn, Languedoc, La Sarre, Royal Roussillon, and Berry. Each battalion had about 500 fighting men, making about 4,000 in all.
"Charpentier," said Jeanty Sarre, "you have good eyes. Are they midway?" "Yes," said Charpentier. "Fire," said Jeanty Sarre. The barricade fired. The whole street was filled with smoke. Several soldiers fell. They could hear the cries of the wounded. The battalion, riddled with balls, halted and replied by platoon firing.
The School of Bridges and Highways is under the authority of the Minister of the Interior, One of these schools is established at Geislautern, in the department of La Sarre; and the other, at Pesay, in the department of Mont-Blanc. The Director and Professors form a committee for the working of the mines of Pesay, as well as for the instruction of the pupils.
All round that basin, on shore and cliff and mountains, thousands of veteran fighters Fraser's, Otway's, Townsend's, Murray's; and on the other side the splendid soldiers of La Sarre, Languedoc, Bearn, and Guienne watched in silence. Well they might, for in this entr'acte was the little weapon forged which opened the door of New France to England's glory.
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