Battles of the nineteenth century (1901) (14761246214)

Identifier: battlesofninetee01forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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buted the cheering to the announcement of a French success some-where ; others ascribed it to an extra issue ofwine. How were the honest Uhlans to discernthat the imperial parent had come to the frontierto make a military promenade wherewithal tothrow dust in the eyes of his Parisians, and that Lulu, as they impertinently styled the heir ofthe dynasty, accompanied his father that hemight receive his baptism of fire ? The night had passed in quiet along the fron-tier, and in the morning it seemed as if the 2ndof August was to be as monotonous as had beenthe ^st. General Gneisenau and old von Pestel,now a lieutenant-colonel, had made a recon-naisbjaice from the Bellevue and had comeback to a leisurely breakfast. The soldiers inthe barrackyards and in the several posts onthe environs of the town, slept and smokedand gossiped, their arms stacked as usual ; theofficers sat under the trees drinking their Rhinewine, and the whole place seemed oppressedby the drowsiness of a fervently hot day.
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SAARURUCK But the torpor was soon to give place to alertactivity. At ten a.m. Saarbriick awoke at theannouncement sent in from the outposts thatthe enemy was at last advancing. The two companies in front of Saarbriick moved at onceinto the line of defence. The company from St.Johann hurried by at the double to occupy the Red House. Major von Horn hastened tostrengthen the post on the Wintt-rberg, which wasmost imminently threatened. Captain Griinderoccupied the Lowenberg, and moved with Ley-deckers company and the rest of his own outto St. Arnual, where his rifle fire and the fire ottwo guns sent to him from Raschpfuhi gave awarm reception to the enemy debouching fromthe Stiftswald. As some English spectatorshurried up to the Bellevue height, thererattled past them at a sharp trot a couple ofguns which the general had ordered to be putin position on the Exercise Platz. The batterychief waved his hand cheerily as he galloped to the front. From the Bellevue one looked upon animposing spe