12 John BachmafL 



that the same blood which tiovved in tlie veins of 

 the martyred hero, tiovved in his. Thirty-eight 

 years later he stood upon the soil of his forefathers. 

 The orandeur 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 ui)onthe monument 

 designed by Thorwaldsen, in memory of those eight 

 hundred Swiss wlio l)ravely sought. l)ut failed, to 

 defend the King, in the palace of the Tuileries, 

 Paris, 17^>2. Few works of art, it is said, so pro- 

 found Iv impi'ess the beholder. 



The famous *" Lion ot Lucerne" is twenty-eight 

 feet in length. It is chiselled out of the living- 

 rock on the ^idc of a precipice. The gigantic, mighty 

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

 ingly u}K)n tlie P>ourbon shield, while the broken, 

 fatal spear, still |)iei'ces his side. Above the sculj)- 

 ture is tbe motto, 



"Helvetiorum Fi<lei ac Virtuti," (To tlu' fidelity and 

 valor of the Sw iss.) 



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 Baehman is the second 

 on the list; and the chronicler of that blood}^ de- 

 fence, records that "Lieutenant-General Baehman 

 was the soul of the expedition." 



John's father fought in the Kevolutionary War. 

 John was nine vears of aae wlien tlie news reached 



