The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . ance. Napoleon expected Grouchy to arrive withthirty-four thousand fresh men ; but he never came, noreven sent to say he was coming. Wellington expectedBliicher with his Prussians ; he did come, early in theevening, and when he came the battle was won. Helaunched his troopers against the tired French, and, Wel-lington hurling his English guards against them at thesame time, the emperors army broke and fled. One battalion of the Imperial Guard formed a square, andwhen the English su
The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . ance. Napoleon expected Grouchy to arrive withthirty-four thousand fresh men ; but he never came, noreven sent to say he was coming. Wellington expectedBliicher with his Prussians ; he did come, early in theevening, and when he came the battle was won. Helaunched his troopers against the tired French, and, Wel-lington hurling his English guards against them at thesame time, the emperors army broke and fled. One battalion of the Imperial Guard formed a square, andwhen the English summoned it to surrender, its commander,old Cambronue, replied. 1814-1815] 3Y3 The guard may die, but it will not English pulled trigger, and not one man darkness fell the French army had ceased to ex-ist. Through all the dark hours of that summer nightfierce old Bliicher, with his heavy cavalry and his flyingartillery, galloped after the flying French, taking prisonersand slaughtering. In all his life Bliicher never spared abeaten enemy. The pursuit only stopped when the swords ..^^. TOMB OP NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA of the troopers were dripping with blood, and they werefalling from their horses from weariness. At that hourNapoleon, curled up at the bottom of a carriage, was beingdriven swiftly to Paris, gazing with wide - open e3^es intothe darkness. When he reached the city he still planned further re-sistance. But the Assembly plucked up courage enough todemand his abdication, and when he proposed to abdicate 374 [1814-1815 in favor of his son they would not even answer him. Sohe took horse and started with a few old friends for thesea-coast, whence he said he would sail to the United he was riding the English and Prussians enteredParis, and sent word to Louis the Eighteenth that he mightcome back. Napoleon left Paris on June the 29th. For three days henever spoke a word. On July the 3d he arrived at Roche-fort, which was blockaded by an
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