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"His hand is closed, as if he were holding something in it." "That is true," the surgeon replied, drawing nearer. "That sometimes happens in the last convulsions. "You remember at Solferino, Commandant Bordy held his little daughter's miniature in his hand like that? We had much difficulty in taking it from him." As he spoke he tried to open the poor, tightly-closed dead hand.
She had never heard gentle, merry Patty speak like that before. Guy Martin looked uncomfortable, and Jack Pennington shook with laughter. "Them cheeks is now a deep solferino colour," he observed, and Patty's flushed face had to break into smiles. "Forgive me, Dorothy," she said; "I didn't mean what I said, and neither did you. Let's forget it."
It is of no use interfering with them on this point, since all things are finally appreciated at their true value, and the pride of the nobility is easily discounted when one sees them as they really are. Prince Gonzaga Solferino, whom I saw at Venice eighteen years ago, lived on a pension allowed him by the empress.
Should we have a German empire, and would there be a united Italy, if Austria in alliance with Prussia had fought in 1859 at Solferino and Magenta and conquered the French? At Hosterwitz I became more intimately acquainted with the lyric poet, Julius Hammer.
On the contrary, he has sternly forbidden Austria to meddle at all in Italy, and has allowed Cavour to proclaim in Parliament that L. N.'s greatest merit to Italy is not the great battle of Solferino, but his having avowed in his letter to the Pope that priests shall no longer rule in Italy.... When Hungary is free, all views will change, and perhaps France also."
From the taking of the entrenchments at Fribourg up to the engagement at the bridge of Arcola, up to Solferino, there occur a multitude of deeds of valor, of positions taken by frontal attack, which deceive every one, generals as well as civilians, and which always cause the same mistakes to be made.
This has been true from antiquity, when the cavalryman was of a superior caste to the infantryman, and ought to have been braver. Anybody advancing, cavalry or infantry, ought to scout and reconnoiter as soon as possible the terrain on which it acts. Conde forgot this at Neerwinden. The 55th forgot it at Solferino. Everybody forgets it.
On May 3rd he declared war. On the 12th he arrived at Genoa, commanded in person, on the 4th of June, at the battle of Magenta, where, but for the superior generalship of Marshal McMahon, he would have lost his life, together with his army, and on the 24th of the same month won the great victory of Solferino.
As to the comparative value of troops with cohesion and of new troops, look at the Zouaves of the Guard or the Grenadiers at Magenta, and the 55th at Solferino. Nothing should be neglected to make the battle order stronger, man stronger. Moral Elements in Battle
It is rare to witness diplomacy in toto, or even single diplomats, side with progressive efforts and ideas. English diplomacy and diplomats do it at times; but then mostly for the sake of political intrigue. Even the great events of Italy are not the child of diplomacy. It went to work clopin, clopan, after Solferino. Not one of the diplomats here is intrinsically hostile to the Union.
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