during his own hitae 
“bivouacs beyond the HEN of Sanne. a “Yery atte 
twhich wGinained inothe Secretion of. the 
tPrenchiort % eaitid oil? Yo WARIS 
fait the! Mbaitle of ketipaist the,’ yoble 
“guard was engaged; underthe:, Dukes Of 
Biotind! Lieviso. Pheoamiddle guard, 
H manded dy:@cneral Carial, atticked 
Geek erent Aapstiiy ay! aorps! urider 
GendtalyMerfeld, who owas made» pri- 
isonehie Phe cavalhy.ofitlie guard, with 
(GenbrakNansouty: at, Ats-head, went to 
-thenright; re puised the:A astrian cavalry, 
. @tiditeek algroamnimber of prisoners. 
(Dhe artillery,of the :guard, directed by 
Count Dronot, was engaged throughont 
the day. Qf tal: the guards, the eld ia+ 
fantry alone remained constantly drawn 
uplimhitic, ‘posted om att eminence where 
ip présence was necessary, but -where 
ey meverhad toiform the square. 
of Inthe:eburse Of thenight-the Freneh 
army: began its movenrent to place itself 
behind, the Eister,¢in direct: communi- 
CAtipncwith. ixfarth) svhenee it expected 
theconvoys. oftammunitionof which it 
fs ne need,; yAt)-hiad fired more than 
-eavnon-shot. in. the battles. of 
Alte seca Owing to. the trea- 
of: severahGerman corps: belong 
ron ee a of the’ ‘Rhine, 
misied-by the éxample.sct the day before 
hy. the, Saxons, and, to. the accident of 
the -beidge*of Leipsic, which a scrgeant 
blew up. before he had received oriichs 
from his‘ecouimanding officer; the army, 
)-vietorious, sso fered, through 
_thesesfatal ovcurrences, the losses com- 
“monly xesniting from the. nust disastrous 
% ,2t-wepassed the Saale at the 
bridge.of, Weisseutelds there it was to 
have,rajlied, and: waited fur the ammu- 
ion; from Erfueth, which, place was 
al bundaotly supplied j but certain intel- 
"] ee be tug veeoived that. the Austro- 
varinti, army had) arrived, :by forced 
Saunt ion, oa the Maine, it be came neces- 
sary, to,mect it. 
7 On the 391i,of Qetober; the Freneh 
army.came vp with the enemy drawn 
up, in dine of batile before Hanan, inter- 
ting die road to Brankfort: although 
issforce ee Siroug anil occupied fine 
Denitionss ibwas overthrown, completely 
Jd, cual driven. from (Hannu, Phe 
anny, comtinted its alovemerdt in 
retreat, cbind. the, bbing, whieh it-re- 
passed, OM Aho, Qh.of November. 
vit to WATERLOO. A oil 
hie.: Vrenghsarny, did (not tos tive 
mariage abo 1sthan. preparing tor bat, 
tles.ihawas taady toongage at day-breakes 
but it was compelled; to svait natil the 
ground, was sufiviently dry fur the arlil- 
Monrucy Mac. No, 301, 
633 
wavy to manoouvre, It had 
srainedsingtorents all tights Phe detach- 
meni of Marshal Grouchy’ s 35,000 men 
coneWavreye was imdde agreeably 46) the 
tue prigeiples of} wan; for badvheap- 
jproachedwwithina leaguorol the army by 
\passing the Dyle, he worldwot havesfol- 
lowed thepmarel of dheyPrissiany arary, 
which haihjust bees joined, afteritside- 
featat Ligny, by General Balow’s 30,000 
men, aid-which,:if it-had mot been fol- 
lowed, micht; after that junctiob, have 
returned ‘iroinGembloux), to, Quatre- 
Eras, on the rear of the! french army. 
35,600 mev were not too many to direct 
in pursnit, eax) te. prevent the rally ing 
of an army whieh:the: day: before: had 
consisted. of 120,000,.men,,\iandy still 
amonnted to: 70,600, of which, number 
30,000 were fresh troops. If Marshal 
Grouchy had executed, his orders, and 
arrived before Wayre on/the levening. of 
the 17th, the battle.of Mont: Saint Jean 
would have been gained by Napoleomon ~ 
the 18th before three o’elockin the after- 
noon: if. he had) coven arrived /efore 
Wavre at eight in ibe\morning ofthe 
18th, the! vietury weuld have been ours; 
the English army would have beenide- 
stroyed, repriséd in disorder on Biassels ; 
it Could? not stistam the shockief 63,000 
French f6r four hours; it could Ho loiger 
support it after:'Gencral Bulow’ attack 
on our right waeexhansteds/ the wieliciny 
was still ours at that time. © 9.1) 
The charge of the eavalry at) four in 
the afternoon ef the 1640. was;made a 
litle too early ; bat; being made, it-was 
necessary to support it ;accordingly yNa- 
poleon, though extremely dissntisted, 
gave orders to. General Kellermanny who 
was in the rear.on the left, torhesten to 
support ait, At this moment) Bilow's 
corps Was menacing thediauk tuidsrear 
of the:army.) twas iinportastiomake 
noretrograde siovement, andito thaiatain 
the position whigh thecavslry had taken, 
although promatitely; however: iowas 
not the dntentioi\ ofthe Hmperorcthat 
the cavalry of Mis: gdard should proceed 
to the plainjsthese. treops:avere! this .re- 
serve. » When cbe!) peneesveds that they 
were allowing the yhovemesit/ofikejlore 
mun’s cOirassiors; ‘behind »whom «they 
formed a seeonddige/hesent them urders 
to dalipibut intwas doo late whew) the 
orders atriveda) they) were ‘alveady»an- 
eased; and hus) ate five,o'clockoinethe 
‘evening, the Hwiperorfound himselfde- 
priverlof. his bresenve of cavalry that 
rosenve which, when wellemployed, had 
so Often pained him the victory. ‘hese 
twelyo thousand chosen cavalry, how- 
4M ever, 
