The Journal of the Three Days of the Battle of Waterloo, by an Eye-Witness. to Which Is Added an Appendix Containing the Official Reports of the Allies - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1816. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... with their purpose, and with the view of preventing it, had disposed of them in the rear. But that nothing could eventually restrain them from the declaration of their feelings, and from acting in conformity with them, and that the Duke had the greatest difficulty to prevent them from falling upon the Prussians. Third Day, June 18th.--This day,--so fatal for France, if we must consider our happiness to be in our military success,--this day, fraught with so many vicissitudes, and in which no one would have promised victory to the side to which it was finally given, at length dawned, and the army was at the same time put in battle array, the Emperor in person commanding all the dispositions. Never did he appear a greater Commander. Let justice be done to him even by those who promise themselves happier days under another dynasty. It does not become a soldier to speak the language of a courtier.: Our first surprise, as the day broke, was to see that the English had not only not fled,--had not only resumed their position, but seemed moreover resolved to defend it. Buonaparte, who had no apprehension during the night, but that they would escape the punishment which he designed for them was animated with a most sensible joy, at seeing them at their post; he was too fond of the game of war, and thought that he played it too well to have any pleasure in a game only abandoned to him. He could not retain the expression of his feeling to those who were around him.--" Bravo!" said he," the English!"-- Ah 1 Je les tiens done,--ces Anglois... I have them then,--these English. Without further circumstance, he now hastened up, with all that imprudent impatience which characterises him, the march of all the columns in the rear; and without any other information than what his eye...

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