12 John Bachman. 



that the same blood which flowed in the veins of 

 the martyred hero, flowed in his. Thirty-eight 

 years later he stood upon the soil of his forefathers. 

 The grandeur and loveliness of the lake and moun- 

 tain scenery held him spell-bound. At the western 

 extremity of Lake Lucerne stands the city of the 

 same name; and here he looked upon the monument 

 designed by Thorwaldsen, in memory of those eight 

 hundred Swiss who bravely sought, but failed, to 

 defend the King, in the palace of the Tuileries, 

 Paris, 1792. Few works of art, it is said, so pro- 

 foundly impress the beholder. 



The famous "Lion of Lucerne" is twenty-eight 

 feet in length. It is chiselled out of the living 

 rock on the side of a precipice. The gigantic, mighty 

 king of the forest is dying ; his paw rests protect- 

 ingly upon the Bourbon shield, while the broken, 

 fatal spear, still pierces his side. Above the sculp- 

 ture is the motto, 



"Helvetiorum Fidei ac Virtuti," (To the fidelity and 

 valor of the Swiss.) 



At the base is the roll of honor on one side are 

 the names of Commanders, twenty-eight in number, 

 " Commanders who fell most bravely fighting." The 

 name of Lieutenant-General Bachman is the second 

 on the list; and the chronicler of that bloody de- 

 fence, records that "Lieutenant-General Bachman 

 was the soul of the expedition." 

 , John's father fought in the Revolutionary War. 

 John was nine years of age when the news reached 



