. Battles of the nineteenth century . - opened on them,and his first shot killed seventeen men, the gunschecking the advance and sending the column,broken and bleeding, down the ridge again. Our batteries on the right now began ; theFrench artillery replied ; Kellermanns horsebatteries joined in, and the infernal concert wasin full SIR THOMAS PICTON.(From the Painting by Sir M. A. S/iee, ) The green Lunebergers and the yellow knap-sacks of the Hanoverians came helter-skelterback across the orchard, but the Foot Guardswent forward at a run and drove the enemyoff. Bulls howitzers s
. Battles of the nineteenth century . - opened on them,and his first shot killed seventeen men, the gunschecking the advance and sending the column,broken and bleeding, down the ridge again. Our batteries on the right now began ; theFrench artillery replied ; Kellermanns horsebatteries joined in, and the infernal concert wasin full SIR THOMAS PICTON.(From the Painting by Sir M. A. S/iee, ) The green Lunebergers and the yellow knap-sacks of the Hanoverians came helter-skelterback across the orchard, but the Foot Guardswent forward at a run and drove the enemyoff. Bulls howitzers sent a shower of 5|-inch shellsover the chateau into the wood, and as often asthe death-dealing globes fell crashing throughthe branches, so often did the enemy retire inconfusion, until Jerome Bonaparte, ex-king ofWestphalia, who was in command at Hougou-mont, brought up Foys Division to help theattack. Bravely led by theirofficers, the tall shakoesand square white coat-facings of the line regi-ments, the dark-blueand black gaiters of thelight infantry, pressedthrough the wooduntil they reached astiff quickset hedge,separated by a thin stripof apple orchard fromthe long south wall,over which peeped thehead - gear of ourGuardsmen, and in theconfusion of smoke andskirmish the bright-redbrickwork was mis-taken for a line ofBritish—y
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