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Journal of the Waterloo campaign, vol. 2 (of 2) : $b kept throughout the campaign of 1815 — John Shaqi

Journal of the Waterloo campaign, vol. 2 (of 2) : $b kept throughout the campaign of 1815Mercer, Cavalié

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Journal of the Waterloo campaign, vol. 2 (of 2) : $b kept throughout the campaign of 1815

Name: Journal of the Waterloo campaign, vol. 2 (of 2) : $b kept throughout the campaign of 1815
Author: Mercer, Cavalié

Mercer, Cavalié

Mercer, Cavalié, 1783-1868 -- Diaries; Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 -- Personal narratives, British

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                               JOURNAL

                                OF THE

                          WATERLOO CAMPAIGN

                               JOURNAL

                                OF THE

                          WATERLOO CAMPAIGN

                 KEPT THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN OF 1815

                             BY THE LATE

                        GENERAL CAVALIÉ MERCER

              COMMANDING THE 9TH BRIGADE ROYAL ARTILLERY

                            IN TWO VOLUMES

                               VOL. II.

                      WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
                         EDINBURGH AND LONDON
                               MDCCCLXX

                _The Right of Translation is reserved_

  CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

  CHAPTER XV.
                                                                  PAGE
  Passage of the Army--The Road blocked up--Preparing to
  Bivouac--The Nassauers--The White Flag--Reception at
  Forêt--The Peasantry--Village of Montay--Ordered to
  Return--A Night Alarm--A Halt--Visit to Cateau--Our
  Allies Plundering--The German Bocks--Wretched Fare--Return
  to Forêt--Female Costumes--Louis XVIII.--Again
  on the Move--Difficulties of our March--Aspect of the
  Country--Lose our Way--Our Destination at Last--Rejoin
  the Main Army--Caulincourt’s Country House--Comfortable
  Quarters--A Warm Welcome--Our Sleeping-Quarters--French
  Cultivateurs--Their Characteristics--Our Dinner,                   1

  CHAPTER XVI.

  Passage of the Somme--Indifference of the Natives--Our
  Quarters--French Deserters--A French Chaussée--Mortemer and
  its Miseries--Improved Aspect of the Country--First Traces
  of the Prussians--Prussian Revenge--A Deputation--Valley
  of the Oise--Its Scenery--Our March unopposed--Preparation
  to Bivouac--Again in Advance--Beauty of the Scenery
  at Verneuil--Our Bivouac--Plundering--Senlis--Feelings
  of the Population--Prussian Lancers--Devastation by the
  Prussians--Chenevière--Our Night-Quarters,                        33

  CHAPTER XVII.

  The Cumberland Hussars--Warlike Rumours--Expectation and
  Excitement--A Quiet Morning--Orders to Advance--We come on the
  Enemy--Our Dilemma--In Sight of Montmartre--First Glimpse of
  Paris--Prussian Devastations again--Comfortless Bivouac--Progress
  of the Prussians--A Halt--Davoust’s Country Seat--Devastation
  in it--Destruction of the Library--Churlishness of our
  Allies--Rumours of Peace--St Denis--An Excursion--Aspect of the
  Country--Revolting Destruction--The Destroyers at Work--Visitors
  for Paris--Inconstancy of the People--Aspect of the Crowd--At
  Arnouvilles--The Royal Cortège--Louis XVIII.,                     60

  CHAPTER XVIII.

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