. The works of Thomas Carlyle .... nd-Nephew,Paris, i860), p. 151;—a poor, considerably noisy and unclean little Book ; whichproves unexpectedly worth looking at, in regard to some of those poor Battlesand personages and occurrences: the Bohemian Belleisle-Broglio part, to myregret, if to no other persons, has been omitted, as extinct, or undecipherableby the Grand-Nephew. CHAP. VIII.] BATTLE OF FONTENOY 99 iith May 1745] immediately turned about to our own Regiment; speeched them, andmade them huzzah/—I hope with a will. An OflBcer (dAuteroche) came out of the ranks, and tried to make his men
. The works of Thomas Carlyle .... nd-Nephew,Paris, i860), p. 151;—a poor, considerably noisy and unclean little Book ; whichproves unexpectedly worth looking at, in regard to some of those poor Battlesand personages and occurrences: the Bohemian Belleisle-Broglio part, to myregret, if to no other persons, has been omitted, as extinct, or undecipherableby the Grand-Nephew. CHAP. VIII.] BATTLE OF FONTENOY 99 iith May 1745] immediately turned about to our own Regiment; speeched them, andmade them huzzah/—I hope with a will. An OflBcer (dAuteroche) came out of the ranks, and tried to make his men huzzah; however,there were not above three or four in their Brigade that * * Very poor counter-huzzah. And not the least whisper of that sublimeAfter you, Sirs ! but rather, in confused form, of quite the reverse;Hay having been himself fired into (fire had begun on my left; Haytotally ignorant on which side first),—fired into, rather feebly, andwounded by those DAuteroche people, while he was still advancing with TB?. a a. French b. French Horse. c. Redoubt dEu. d. Subsidiary French Bat- tery, which takes theDutch in flank. e. Gallows-Hill, where KingLouis and the Dauphinwere. /. English Foot. g. English Horse. hh. Dutch and Austrian Foot. 4 ». Dutch and Aus-trian Horse. k. Ingoldsby, starting(in vain) toattack RedoubtdEu. shouldered arms;—upon which, and not till which, he did give it them :in liberal dose; and quite blew them off the ground, for that day. Fromall which, one has to infer. That the mutual salutation by hat was probablya fact; that, for certain, there was some slight preliminary talk andgesticulation, but in the Homeric style, by no means in the Espagnac-French,—not chivalrous epigram at all, mere rough banter, and what is ^ Ath, May y« 20th, (to John, Fourth Marquis of Tweeddale, last Secretary of State for Scotland, and a man of figure in his day): Letter is atYester House, East Lothian ; Excerpt fienes me. 100 SECOND SILESI
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