Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . Trees were cutdown and great fires were built, bothbecause General Trochu wished to makethe enemy think that an immense armywas encamped near him, and because themen were literally freezing. The hor-rors of that night for the wounded mensurpa
Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . Trees were cutdown and great fires were built, bothbecause General Trochu wished to makethe enemy think that an immense armywas encamped near him, and because themen were literally freezing. The hor-rors of that night for the wounded mensurpass all the powers of description. Next day there was no fighting, butearly on the morning of the 2d of De-. THE PRIESTS AMBULANCE CORPS AT THE BATTLE OP CnAMPIGXY. to concentrate their fire upon them the}-were too hot to stay in ; all the more be-cause we were attacked by forces quad-ruple our own in numbers. When the French got into Champignythey found it in a frightful Saxons, who had been occupying itfor some time, were greatly annoyed atbeing disturbed, and they smashed every-thing : mirrors, costly furniture, — re-specting nothing whatever. Next morn-ing, the weather, which had been mild,suddenly became very cold. The half-fedand excited French troops suffered ter- cember the Saxons and Wurtemburg-ers together fell upon the towns of Bry-sur-Marne and Champigny; and thiswas a part of the deliberate attempt ofthe Germans to throw General Ducrotsarmy back upon the right bank of theMarne and to push it into the river, orcompel it to complete disorganizationand confused retreat, which would renderany future operations on its part impos-sible. The French troops at first fough
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