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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/23057-8.txt b/23057-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..edb5284 --- /dev/null +++ b/23057-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,599 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of How The Redoubt Was Taken, by Prosper Mérimée + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: How The Redoubt Was Taken + 1896 + +Author: Prosper Mérimée + +Release Date: October 17, 2007 [EBook #23057] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW THE REDOUBT WAS TAKEN *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +HOW THE REDOUBT WAS TAKEN + +By Prosper Mérimée + +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. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: How The Redoubt Was Taken + 1896 + +Author: Prosper Mérimée + +Release Date: October 17, 2007 [EBook #23057] +Last Updated: January 26, 2013 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW THE REDOUBT WAS TAKEN *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + <div style="height: 8em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h1> + HOW THE REDOUBT WAS TAKEN + </h1> + <h2> + By Prosper Mérimée + </h2> + <h4> + Copyright, 1896, by The Current Literature Publishing Company + </h4> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + 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: + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + On learning that I had just come from college at Fontainebleau, he + remarked, with a wry face: "My lieutenant died last night." + </p> + <p> + I understood what he implied, "It is for you to take his place, and you + are good for nothing." + </p> + <p> + A sharp retort was on my tongue, but I restrained it. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + An old soldier, at whose side I found myself, observed the color of the + moon. + </p> + <p> + "She is very red," he said. "It is a sign that it will cost us dear to win + this wonderful redoubt." + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + But about three o'clock an aide-de-camp arrived with orders. We were + commanded to take arms. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + The colonel passed before our company. "Well," he said to me, "you are + going to see warm work in your first action." + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + "I congratulate you," said the captain, as I picked up my shako. "You are + safe now for the day." + </p> + <p> + I knew the military superstition which believes that the axiom "<i>non bis + in idem</i>" is as applicable to the battlefield as to the courts of + justice, I replaced my shako with a swagger. + </p> + <p> + "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. + </p> + <p> + "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." + </p> + <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. + </p> + <p> + At the end of half an hour the Russian fire had sensibly diminished. We + left our cover to advance on the redoubt. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + On issuing from behind the cover, we were received by several volleys, + which did but little harm. + </p> + <p> + The whistling of the balls amazed me. "But after all," I thought, "a + battle is less terrible than I expected." + </p> + <p> + We advanced at a smart run, our musketeers in front. + </p> + <p> + All at once the Russians uttered three hurrahs—three distinct + hurrahs—and then stood silent, without firing. + </p> + <p> + "I don't like that silence," said the captain. "It bodes no good." + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + I shuddered. I believed that my last hour had come. + </p> + <p> + "Now for the dance to open," cried the captain. These were the last words + I heard him speak. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + "Who is the oldest captain?" he was asking of a sergeant. + </p> + <p> + The sergeant shrugged his shoulders most expressively. + </p> + <p> + "Who is the oldest lieutenant?" + </p> + <p> + "This gentleman, who came last night," replied the sergeant calmly. + </p> + <p> + The colonel smiled bitterly. + </p> + <p> + "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." + </p> + <p> + "Colonel," I asked him, "are you badly wounded?" + </p> + <p> + "Pish, my dear fellow. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: How The Redoubt Was Taken + 1896 + +Author: Prosper Merimee + +Release Date: October 17, 2007 [EBook #23057] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW THE REDOUBT WAS TAKEN *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +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. 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