[429] Gunpowder is said to have been discovered by this friar. [N.B. Though Friar Bacon seems to have discovered gunpowder, he had the _humanity_ not to record his discovery in intelligible language.] {341}[ie] ---- _whose short breath, and long faces_ _Kept always pushing onwards to the Glacis_.--[MS. erased.] {342}[430] [_I Henry IV._, act iii. sc. 1, line 53.] [if] _And that mechanic impulse_----.--[MS. erased.] [431] [_Hamlet_, act iii, sc. 1, lines 79, 80.] {343}[432] ["_Talus:_ the slope or inclination of a wall, whereby, reclining at the top so as to fall within its base, the thickness is gradually lessened according to the height."--_Milit. Dict._] [433] ["Appelant ceux des chasseurs qui étaient autour de moi en assez grand nombre, je m'avançai et reconnus ne m'être point trompé dans mon calcul; c'était en effet cette colonne qui à l'instant parvenait au sommet du rempart. Les Turcs de derrière les travers et les flancs des bastions voisins fasaient sur elle un feu très-vif de canon et de mousqueterie. Je gravis, avec les gens qui m'avaient suivi, le talus intérieur du rempart."--_Hist. de la Nouvelle Russie_, ii. 210.] {344}[434] [Baron Menno van Coehoorn (circ. 1641-1704), a Dutch military engineer, the contemporary and rival of Vauban, invented a mortar which bore his name. He was the author of a celebrated work on fortification, published in 1692.] [435] ["Ce fut dans cet instant que je reconnus combien l'ignorance du constructeur des palissades était importante pour nous; car, comme elles étaient placées au milieu du parapet," etc.--_Hist. de la Nouvelle Russie_, ii. 211.] [436] They were but two feet above the level.--[MS.] ["Il y avait de chaque côté neuf à dix pieds sur lesquels on pouvait marcher; et les soldats, après être montés, avaient pu se ranger commodément sur l'espace extérieur et enjamber ensuite les palissades, qui ne s'élevaient que d'à-peu-près deux pieds au-dessus du niveau de la terre."--_Ibid._, p. 211.] {345}[437] [Friederich Wilhelm, Baron von Bülow (1755-1816), was in command of the 4th corps of the Prussian Army at Waterloo. August Wilhelm Antonius Neidhart von Gneisenau (1760-1831) was chief of staff, and after Blücher was disabled by a fall at Ligny, assumed temporary command, June 16-17, 1815. He headed the triumphant pursuit of the French on the night of the battle. For Blücher's official account of the battles of Ligny and Waterloo (subscribed by Gneisenau), see W.H. Maxwell's _Life of the Duke of Wellington_, 1841, iii. 566-571; and for Wellington's acknowledgment of Blücher's "cordial and timely assistance," see _Dispatches_, 1847, viii. 150. See, too, _The Life of Wellington_, by the Right Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., 1899, ii. 88, _et passim_.] {346}[ig] ---- _as feminine of feature_.--[MS.] _Led him on--although he was the gentlest creature_, _As kind in heart as feminine of feature_.--[MS. erased.]