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Updated: June 6, 2025
"En avant! cuirassiers of the Tenth," called out the Emperor, as the last squadrons of the carbineers went by, "support your comrades! Follow up there, men of the Fourth! I must have that bridge." And now the whole line moved up.
Ah!" cried he, in an excited tone, "they can't stand before the cuirassiers of the Guard. Sacrebleu! how proud the Petit Caporal will be of this day!" Then, dropping his voice, he muttered, "What care I who's proud? I have my billet, and must be going." "Not so, mon enfant; thou'lt have the cross for thy day's work.
But by five o'clock the defence was outflanked on the two wings and crushed at the centre; human nature could stand no more after eight hours' fighting; and after a final despairing effort of the French Cuirassiers all their line gave way in a general rout down the slopes to Reichshofen and towards Saverne.
Amidst the gloom the columns of the Imperial Guard crept swiftly down the slope towards Ligny, gave new strength to Gérard's men, and together with them broke through the defence. A little higher up the stream, Milhaud's cuirassiers struggled across, and, animated by the Emperor's presence, poured upon the shattered Prussian centre.
In Berlin they would have said it was a revolution, and the cuirassiers would have been charging, sabre in hand, amidst that infuriate mob. In France they would have brought down artillery, and played on it with twenty-four pounders. In Cambridge nobody heeded the disturbance it was a Town and Gown row. The row arose at a boat-race. High words arose regarding the dispute.
Blind with indignation at this seeming injustice, he at once sent an imperative summons to D'Erlon to return towards Quatre Bras, and launched a brigade of Kellermann's cuirassiers at those stubborn squares. The attack nearly succeeded. The horsemen rushed upon our 69th Regiment just when the Prince of Orange had foolishly ordered it back into line, caught it in confusion, and cut it up badly.
The ranks wavered, and through their cleft spaces of dead and dying our cuirassiers dashed in, sabring all before them.
While I formed these plans for the future, I little anticipated what events were in store for me, nor how soon I should be thrown among scenes and people totally different from those with which I had ever mixed before. "You mess with us, then, Burke, that's agreed," said Tascher. "They 're excellent fellows, these cuirassiers of ours, and I know you 'll like them."
"They gave her a military funeral this evening, the Fourth Cuirassiers. The Emperor gave his permission, and sent General Degeon of the staff to be present. And when they placed her in the grave, one of the soldiers, a corporal, I believe, kneeled down to kiss her before they covered in the earth; and when he had done so, he lay slowly down on his face on the grass.
"We want Johann Kopf," was the answer, "and we have it from good authority that he is here. Do not interfere with us; you are in no wise connected with the affair." "He is not here," she replied. She wondered at herself, her tones were so even, her mind was so clear. One of the cuirassiers caught up her gown.
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