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Updated: May 22, 2025
Squadrons of white clouds drift down the valley, as if to cover the sleeping heroes with a shroud of white. Above Sedan's heights appears the shining crescent of the moon and sheds a ghostly light over the wide field of death the battlefield of Sedan." "At last we arrive at our destination Somme-Py. But what a sight! Nothing remains of the once beautiful, spacious village but a heap of rubbish.
This army, lacking in martial ardour, and educated more for parade than for war, was rushing with blinded eyes towards its doom. The flames of annihilation already shone ahead; the heirs of Sedan's conquerors marched straight onward, firm and erect in grand ceremonial array and the sign-posts by the way pointed to Jena. Reimers groaned in bitter distress of mind. Was there no salvation?
Sedan's proportionate share of the assessment was forty-two thousand francs. And he labored strenuously with his visitor to convince him of the iniquity of the imposition; the city was differently circumstanced from the other towns, it had had more than its share of affliction, and should not be burdened with that new exaction.
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