. Battles of the nineteenth century . t—which was to prevent theescape of Bazaine. Yet, in his despatch tothe Emperor, Bazaine had made bold to assert 352 BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. that the enemy, beaten, retreated on, allpoints, leaving us masters of the , on the other hand, wrote that thetroops, worn out by a twelve-hours struggle,encamped on the victorious but bloody fieldimmediatel) opposite the French lines. AndMoltke wrote the truth. Bazaine had evidentlylearned the habit of lying about his reversesfrom the Great Napoleon, and even the Little. ba
. Battles of the nineteenth century . t—which was to prevent theescape of Bazaine. Yet, in his despatch tothe Emperor, Bazaine had made bold to assert 352 BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. that the enemy, beaten, retreated on, allpoints, leaving us masters of the , on the other hand, wrote that thetroops, worn out by a twelve-hours struggle,encamped on the victorious but bloody fieldimmediatel) opposite the French lines. AndMoltke wrote the truth. Bazaine had evidentlylearned the habit of lying about his reversesfrom the Great Napoleon, and even the Little. battle just described. Leaving Gorze, with itsgilded statue of la Saintc Vierge on the brow,of a beetling cliff, I passed up the steep andwooded defile through which the Branden-burgers pressed on the i6th of August, andhere the first affecting relics of the bloodystrife appeared. In a little, lonely green valleyskirted by the road, a few grassy moundsluxuriant with the crimson poppy and thewild fern, each being surmounted by a white. -^^^^yAJ-^^^ST^-^^ CHARGE OF THE i6tH UHLANS (/. 346). Yet Mars-la-Tour was only the prologue tothe still bloodier and more decisive dramaof Gravelotte two days later. The battle ofVionvilie, said the Emperor William II. once, is without a parallel in military history,seeing that a single Army Corps, about 20,000men strong, hung on to and repulsed an enemymore than five times as numerous and wellequipped. Such was the glorious deed thatwas done by the Brandenburgers, and theHohenzoUerns will never forget the debt theyowe to their devotion. Several years later J visited- the field of wooden cross, told where the tapfere Kriegerbegan to drop from the bullets of the chasse-pot. But when the summit is reached, whata touching sight I The rising plateau on everyside is dotted with white crosses, which thicken,thicken, thicken as you advance, and the notfar distant horizon edge is bristling with obelisksand stone memorials of more pretentious andlasting
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