Changed its proud glance of fortitude.”
FOOTNOTES:
[29] Both those officers told me this on the field, in 1842.
[30] I was told by an officer who accompanied this column, that seventeen men were killed by the first shot.
[31] Why this attack was not made simultaneously with that upon Hougoumont, and at the same time a demonstration upon the allied centre, to prevent troops being drawn from it to support the points assailed, I am at a loss to say.
[32] Soult, Ney, Napoleon and Wellington were all born in 1769.
[33] Many females were found amongst the slain, although not of the same class as the heroine alluded to. As is common in the camp, the female followers wore male attire, with nearly as martial a bearing as the soldiers, and some even were mounted and rode astride.
[34] Picton appears to have had a presentiment that this campaign would close his glorious career. What a pity he did not survive to see the effect of his charge!
[35] Ewart got a commission the following year. Like Shaw, the life-guardsman, he was a man of herculean strength, and of more than ordinary stature, being six feet four inches, and of consummate skill as a swordsman. He died in 1845, having attained the age of seventy-seven.