ntree, et que l'artillerie anglaise, qui avait cesse de tirer
pendant une demi-heure, eut recommence son feu, on donna ordre aux
divisions Foy et Bachelu d'avancer droit aux carres qui s'y etaient
avances pendant la charge de cavalerie et qui ne s'etaient pas
replies. L'attaque fut formee en colonnes par echelons de regiment,
Bachelu formant les echelons les plus avances. Je tenis par ma gauche
a la haie [de Hougoumont]: j'avais sur mon front un bataillon en
tirailleurs. Pres de joindre les Anglais, nous avons recu un feu tres
vif de mitraille et de mousqueterie. C'etait une grele de mort. Les
carres ennemis avaient le premier rang genoux en terre et presentaient
une haie de baionettes. Les colonnes de la 1're division ont pris la
fuite les premieres: leur mouvement a entraine celui de mes colonnes.
En ce moment j'ai ete blesse...."

This shows that the advance of the French infantry was far too late to
be of the slightest use to the cavalry. The British lines had been
completely re-formed.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Armfeldt to Drake, December 24th, 1803 ("F.O.," Bavaria,
No. 27).]

[Footnote 2: Drake's despatch of December 15th, 1803, _ib_.]

[Footnote 3: Czartoryski, "Memoirs," vol. ii., ch. ii.]

[Footnote 4: The Czar's complaints were: the exile of the King of
Sardinia, the re-occupation of S. Italy by the French, the changes in
Italy, the violation of the neutrality of Baden, the occupation of
Cuxhaven by the French, and the levying of ransom from the Hanse Towns
to escape the same fate ("F.O.," Russia, No. 56).]

[Footnote 5: Lord Harrowby to Admiral Warren ("F.O.," Russia, No.
56).]

[Footnote 6: Garden, "Traites" vol. viii., p. 302; Ulmann,
"Russisch-Preussische Politik," p. 117]

[Footnote 7: See the letter in the "Paget Papers," vol. ii., p. 170.]

[Footnote 8: "F.O.," Russia, No. 55. See note on p. 28.]

[Footnote 9: Czartoryski's "Mems.," vol. ii., chs. ii.-iv.]

[Footnote 10: "Lettres inedites de Napoleon" (May 30th, 1805).]

[Footnote 11: See Novossiltzoff's Report in Czartoryski's "Memoirs,"
vol. ii., ch. iv., and Pitt's note developing the Russian proposals in
Garden's "Traites," vol. viii., pp. 317-323, or Alison, App. to ch.
xxxix. A comparison of these two memoranda will show that on
Continental questions there was no difference such as Thiers affected
to see between the generous policy of Russia and the "cold egotism" of
Pitt. As Czartoryski has proved in his "Memoirs" (vo