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+Title: How The Redoubt Was Taken
+       1896
+
+Author: Prosper Merimee
+
+Release Date: October 17, 2007 [EBook #23057]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW THE REDOUBT WAS TAKEN ***
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+HOW THE REDOUBT WAS TAKEN
+
+By Prosper Merimee
+
+Copyright, 1896, by The Current Literature Publishing Company
+
+
+A friend of mine, a soldier, who died in Greece of fever some years
+since, described to me one day his first engagement. His story so
+impressed me that I wrote it down from memory. It was as follows:
+
+I joined my regiment on September 4th. It was evening. I found the
+colonel in the camp. He received me rather bruskly, but having read the
+general's introductory letter he changed his manner and addressed me
+courteously.
+
+By him I was presented to my captain, who had just come in from
+reconnoitring. This captain, whose acquaintance I had scarcely time to
+make, was a tall, dark man, of harsh, repelling aspect. He had been a
+private soldier, and had won his cross and epaulettes upon the field
+of battle. His voice, which was hoarse and feeble, contrasted strangely
+with his gigantic stature. This voice of his he owed, as I was told, to
+a bullet which had passed completely through his body at the battle of
+Jena.
+
+On learning that I had just come from college at Fontainebleau, he
+remarked, with a wry face: "My lieutenant died last night."
+
+I understood what he implied, "It is for you to take his place, and you
+are good for nothing."
+
+A sharp retort was on my tongue, but I restrained it.
+
+The moon was rising behind the redoubt of Cheverino, which stood two
+cannon-shots from our encampment. The moon was large and red, as is
+common at her rising; but that night she seemed to me of extraordinary
+size. For an instant the redoubt stood out coal-black against the
+glittering disk. It resembled the cone of a volcano at the moment of
+eruption.
+
+An old soldier, at whose side I found myself, observed the color of the
+moon.
+
+"She is very red," he said. "It is a sign that it will cost us dear to
+win this wonderful redoubt."
+
+I was always superstitious, and this piece of augury, coming at that
+moment, troubled me. I sought my couch, but could not sleep. I rose, and
+walked about a while, watching the long line of fires upon the heights
+beyond the village of Cheverino.
+
+When the sharp night air had thoroughly refreshed my blood I went back
+to the fire. I rolled my mantle round me, and I shut my eyes, trusting
+not to open them till daybreak. But sleep refused to visit me.
+Insensibly my thoughts grew doleful. I told myself that I had not a
+friend among the hundred thousand men who filled that plain. If I were
+wounded, I should be placed in hospital, in the hands of ignorant and
+careless surgeons. I called to mind what I had heard of operations. My
+heart beat violently, and I mechanically arranged, as a kind of
+rude cuirass, my handkerchief and pocketbook upon my breast. Then,
+overpowered with weariness, my eyes closed drowsily, only to open the
+next instant with a start at some new thought of horror.
+
+Fatigue, however, at last gained the day. When the drums beat at
+daybreak I was fast asleep. We were drawn up in ranks. The roll was
+called, then we stacked our arms, and everything announced that we
+should pass another uneventful day.
+
+But about three o'clock an aide-de-camp arrived with orders. We were
+commanded to take arms.
+
+Our sharpshooters marched into the plain, We followed slowly, and in
+twenty minutes we saw the outposts of the Russians falling back and
+entering the redoubt. We had a battery of artillery on our right,
+another on our left, but both some distance in advance of us. They
+opened a sharp fire upon the enemy, who returned it briskly, and the
+redoubt of Cheverino was soon concealed by volumes of thick smoke. Our
+regiment was almost covered from the Russians' fire by a piece of rising
+ground. Their bullets (which besides were rarely aimed at us, for they
+preferred to fire upon our cannoneers) whistled over us, or at worst
+knocked up a shower of earth and stones.
+
+Just as the order to advance was given, the captain looked at me
+intently. I stroked my sprouting mustache with an air of unconcern; in
+truth, I was not frightened, and only dreaded lest I might be
+thought so. These passing bullets aided my heroic coolness, while my
+self-respect assured me that the danger was a real one, since I was
+veritably under fire. I was delighted at my self-possession, and already
+looked forward to the pleasure of describing in Parisian drawing-rooms
+the capture of the redoubt of Cheverino.
+
+The colonel passed before our company. "Well," he said to me, "you are
+going to see warm work in your first action."
+
+I gave a martial smile, and brushed my cuff, on which a bullet, which
+had struck the earth at thirty paces distant, had cast a little dust.
+
+It appeared that the Russians had discovered that their bullets did no
+harm, for they replaced them by a fire of shells, which began to reach
+us in the hollows where we lay. One of these, in its explosion, knocked
+off my shako and killed a man beside me.
+
+"I congratulate you," said the captain, as I picked up my shako. "You
+are safe now for the day."
+
+I knew the military superstition which believes that the axiom "_non
+bis in idem_" is as applicable to the battlefield as to the courts of
+justice, I replaced my shako with a swagger.
+
+"That's a rude way to make one raise one's hat," I said, as lightly as
+I could. And this wretched piece of wit was, in the circumstances,
+received as excellent.
+
+"I compliment you," said the captain. "You will command a company
+to-night; for I shall not survive the day. Every time I have been
+wounded the officer below me has been touched by some spent ball; and,"
+he added, in a lower tone, "all the names began with P."
+
+I laughed skeptically; most people would have done the same; but most
+would also have been struck, as I was, by these prophetic words. But,
+conscript though I was, I felt that I could trust my thoughts to no one,
+and that it was my duty to seem always calm and bold.
+
+At the end of half an hour the Russian fire had sensibly diminished. We
+left our cover to advance on the redoubt.
+
+Our regiment was composed of three battalions. The second had to take
+the enemy in flank; the two others formed a storming party. I was in the
+third.
+
+On issuing from behind the cover, we were received by several volleys,
+which did but little harm.
+
+The whistling of the balls amazed me. "But after all," I thought, "a
+battle is less terrible than I expected."
+
+We advanced at a smart run, our musketeers in front.
+
+All at once the Russians uttered three hurrahs--three distinct
+hurrahs--and then stood silent, without firing.
+
+"I don't like that silence," said the captain. "It bodes no good."
+
+I began to think our people were too eager. I could not help comparing,
+mentally, their shouts and clamor with the striking silence of the
+enemy.
+
+We quickly reached the foot of the redoubt. The palisades were broken
+and the earthworks shattered by our balls. With a roar of "Vive
+l'Empereur," our soldiers rushed across the ruins.
+
+I raised my eyes. Never shall I forget the sight which met my view.
+The smoke had mostly lifted, and remained suspended, like a canopy, at
+twenty feet above the redoubt. Through a bluish mist could be perceived,
+behind the shattered parapet, the Russian Grenadiers, with rifles
+lifted, as motionless as statues. I can see them still,--the left eye of
+every soldier glaring at us, the right hidden by his lifted gun. In an
+embrasure at a few feet distant, a man with a fuse stood by a cannon.
+
+I shuddered. I believed that my last hour had come.
+
+"Now for the dance to open," cried the captain. These were the last
+words I heard him speak.
+
+There came from the redoubts a roll of drums. I saw the muzzles lowered.
+I shut my eyes; I heard a most appalling crash of sound, to which
+succeeded groans and cries. Then I looked up, amazed to find myself
+still living. The redoubt was once more wrapped in smoke. I was
+surrounded by the dead and wounded. The captain was extended at my feet;
+a ball had carried off his head, and I was covered with his blood. Of
+all the company, only six men, except myself, remained erect.
+
+This carnage was succeeded by a kind of stupor. The next instant the
+colonel, with his hat on his sword's point, had scaled the parapet
+with a cry of "Vive l'Empereur." The survivors followed him. All that
+succeeded is to me a kind of dream. We rushed into the redoubt, I know
+not how, we fought hand to hand in the midst of smoke so thick that no
+man could perceive his enemy. I found my sabre dripping blood; I heard
+a shout of "Victory"; and, in the clearing smoke, I saw the earthworks
+piled with dead and dying. The cannons were covered with a heap of
+corpses. About two hundred men in the French uniform were standing,
+without order, loading their muskets or wiping their bayonets. Eleven
+Russian prisoners were with them. The colonel was lying, bathed in
+blood, upon a broken cannon. A group of soldiers crowded round him. I
+approached them.
+
+"Who is the oldest captain?" he was asking of a sergeant.
+
+The sergeant shrugged his shoulders most expressively.
+
+"Who is the oldest lieutenant?"
+
+"This gentleman, who came last night," replied the sergeant calmly.
+
+The colonel smiled bitterly.
+
+"Come, sir," he said to me, "you are now in chief command. Fortify the
+gorge of the redoubt at once with wagons, for the enemy is out in force.
+But General C------ is coming to support you."
+
+"Colonel," I asked him, "are you badly wounded?"
+
+"Pish, my dear fellow. The redoubt is taken."
+
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