On reaching the culminating point of the crest, furious and eager to make their exterminating dash on the English squares and guns, the cuirassiersnoticed between them and the English a trench, a grave.
The whole of the English field artillery had entered the squares at a gallop; the cuirassiers had not even a moment for reflection.
He was an officer of cuirassiers of a certain rank, for a heavy gold epaulette peeped out from under his cuirass.
The English army was profoundly shaken; and there is no doubt that, had not the cuirassiers been weakened in their attack by the disaster of the sunken road, they would have broken through the centre and decided the victory.
The cuirassiers responded by attempts to crush their foe; their great horses reared, leaped over the bayonets, and landed in the centre of the four living walls.
Napoleon was one of those geniuses from whom thunder issues, and he had just found his thunder-stroke; he gave Milhaud's cuirassiers orders to carry the plateau of Mont St. Jean.
The cuirassiers had not succeeded, in the sense that the English centre had not been broken.
The Scotch Grays no longer existed; Ponsonby's heavy dragoons were cut to pieces,--this brave cavalry had given way before the lancers of Bro and the cuirassiers of Travers.
They did not see the cuirassiers, and the cuirassiers did not see them: they merely heard this tide of men ascending.
All at once, terrible to relate, the head of the column of cuirassiers facing the English left reared with a fearful clamor.
It will be remembered that the destruction of the cuirassiers took place at the opposite point, near the Genappe road.
The battery was unmasked simultaneously with the ravine,--sixty guns and the thirteen squares thundered at the cuirassiers at point-blank range.
The Cuirassierscharged the 42nd and cut through them, but on recovering themselves they formed a square, and the Cuirassiers paid dear in turn for their temerity.
The enemy's cuirassiers passed over him, and it was not until they were repulsed, and in their turn pursued by the Prussian cavalry, that the gallant veteran was raised and remounted.
The British squares stood unmoved, and never gave fire until the cavalry were within ten yards, when men rolled one way, horses galloped another, and the cuirassiers were in every instance driven back.
At length the cuirassiers suffered so severely on every hand, that they were compelled to abandon the attempt, which they had made with such intrepid and desperate courage.
When the relics of the cuirassiers at last withdrew, the French cannonade opened up furiously once more all along the line.
This charge allowed the somewhat disorganized cuirassiers time to form again, and they, with the chasseurs and lancers, fell again upon the English cavalry.
The cuirassiers wheeled about, reformed, and again charged with tremendous energy, and a valor that set at contemptuous defiance the tempest of grape-shot, and balls of the artillery and musketry which opposed their advance.
While Napoleon was watching their several charges, General Guyot's division of heavy cavalry was seen following the cuirassiers of Kellerman.
At length one of them, rushing on with more violence, broke the enemy's infantry at one point and opened the breach through which cuirassiers and dragoons rushed, each eager to penetrate first.
He then sent an order for a grand charge of three thousand cuirassiers under Kellerman on the left, and who were to move forward briskly and support the cavalry on the low grounds.
The French cuirassiers rode up to the very mouths of the cannon, charged the artillerymen, drove them from their guns, and then rode fiercely on the squares behind.
The baffled cuirassiers were always obliged to retire, receiving the terrible cross-fire of the squares as they passed between them and followed by a volley of musketry and often by the grape-shot of the artillery.
Some years later the Duke said, "I have never seen anything more admirable in war than those ten or twelve reiterated charges of the French cuirassiers upon our troops of all arms.
As the cuirassiers retired the artillerymen rushed from behind the squares, formed four deep, manned their guns, and fired grape-shot with terrible effect on the retreating body of gallant but ineffective cavalry.
At this point the French were posted among growing corn as high as the tallest man's shoulder, and which enabled them to draw up a strong body of cuirassiers close to the English, and yet entirely out of their view.
During these assaults on the centre of the British line, the French cuirassiers had advanced to the charge in the face of a terrific fire from the artillery in front of the British infantry.
Baffled by our resistance, Montbrun advanced with theCuirassiers of the Guard.
Meanwhile Montbrun's cavalry and the cuirassiers came riding up, and the retreat now sounding through our ranks, we were obliged to fall back upon the infantry.
Here a small body of the 95th had hurriedly assembled, and formed again, were standing to cover the retreat of the broken infantry as they passed on eagerly to the bridge; in a second after the French cuirassiers appeared.
A party of the 14th were picketed here, and beneath them in the valley, scarce five hundred yards distant, was the detachment of cuirassiers which formed the French outpost.
Let Lobau take ten thousand, with the Cuirassiers of the Young Guard, and hold the Prussians in check.
Le Vasseur, who at the head of his cuirassiers waited but the order to charge, waved impatiently with his sword for us to approach.
British squares; upon which, fixed and immovable, the cuirassiers have charged without success.
Vainly the French attempt to rally; the untiring enemy press madly on; the household brigade, led on by Lord Uxbridge, came thundering down the road, riding down with their gigantic force the mailed cuirassiersof France.
Generally the cuirassiers came on stooping their heads very low, and giving point; the British frequently struck away their casques while they were in this position, and then laid at the bare head.
Then we went down to the street, but we had not reached the bridge when the cuirassiers began to file over it, followed by the dragoons and the mounted grenadiers of the guard.
The Emperor knew that nobody could lead them like Ney, only he should have ordered them up an hour sooner, when our cuirassiers were in the squares; then we should have gained all.
In spite of everything, at six o'clock we had destroyed half their squares, but the horses of our cuirassiers were exhausted by twenty charges over the ground soaked with rain.
As for the rest, I will not attempt to describe to you the appearance of the plateau in the rear of Ligny where our cuirassiers and dragoons had slaughtered all before them.
I knew how all this was, for I was at Lutzen, and I understand what a man suffers in recovering from a ball, or a musket-shot, or such a cut as our cuirassiers made.
I leaned over his shoulder and saw all the cavalry of our right wing; the cuirassiers of Milhaud, the lancers and the chasseurs of the Guard, more than five thousand men--advancing at a trot.
The battle had begun, but the Old and the Young Guard, the cuirassiers of Milhaud and of Kellerman, and the chasseurs of Lefebvre-Desnoettes; in fact the whole of our magnificent cavalry remained in position.
It was a terrible moment when our cuirassiers crossed the valley; it made me think of a torrent formed by the melting snows, when millions of flakes of snow and ice sparkle in the sunshine.
Dommaigne was killed, and the colonel of the German Legion desperately wounded; but a body of the Vendean infantry, coming up, took the cuirassiers in flank with their fire, and they fell back into Saumur.
Dommaigne, with his cavalry, charged the cuirassiers and the German Legion.
None of the inhabitants moved and the Prussian soldiers, prominent among whom were the cuirassiers who had charged so vigorously in the battle, seemed spectres in their great cloaks and steel helmets.
A fresh charge brought the cuirassiers into the midst of the Styrian infantry.
The cuirassiers stopped astonished, and courage returned to the Baden infantry.
The captain fell, but only to be succeeded by two cuirassiers who attacked Karl, sword in hand.
Those of his men who had their rifles loaded fired; seven or eight cuirassiers fell; the bullets rattled on the breastplates of the rest.
The count himself seeing that in spite of the fire along the whole line, the Prussians were advancing, put himself at the head of a regiment of cuirassiers and charged.
The cuirassiers became disordered, but in retiring they encountered a square broken by the lancers, which fled before them.
It was the Prussian cuirassiers returning to the charge.
Aim at the officers," cried Benedict, and he himself picked out a captain of cuirassiers and fired.
After this there was a lull for a few moments, and then a troop of cuirassiers trotted down the street, jingling their bridles, swords, and spurs as they moved.
Thirty thousand cuirassiers followed, with a captive king of the Tartars in their midst.
His personal escort consisted of ten thousand picked horsemen, among them a regiment of cuirassiers dressed in black tiger-skins, who were particularly attached to his person and the most distinguished for valor of all his troops.
The square soon grew quiet; the students and the cuirassiers had met for the last time.
There now came on the air the welcome sound of galloping hoofs, and presently two cuirassiers wheeled into the street.
There were many damaged heads, for the cuirassiers had not been niggard with their sabers.
There's trouble ahead, and since the cuirassiersare for the king, we'll stand by the cuirassiers.
Highness that way, passing through the alley and making off, to be a mile away before the cuirassiers even dream of the attempt?
One of the cuirassiers lifted the ballet dancer and carried her into her bed-room, and laid her on the bed.
She opened the door and the cuirassiers pushed past her.
The cuirassiers who had been left behind to protect the inmates of the palace, were first aroused by the yelling and singing of the students.
The high revels in the guardroom were no more, the cuirassiers were no longer made up of the young nobles of the kingdom; they were now merely watch dogs.
When within a dozen rods, Maurice saw one of the cuirassiers turn and level a revolver at him.
The guardroom was at once emptied, and the cuirassiers turned off toward the stables, where the main body of the troops was stationed.
Into this street he turned, into that, expecting each moment to be challenged, for the white saddle blanket of the cuirassiers stood out conspicuously.
One of thecuirassiers dismounted, his face red from his exertions.
The Captain of the household troop of cuirassiers nodded in the ante-room.
The Colonel of the royal cuirassiershad lied; he had found the certificates.
His Cuirassierswere more lightly armed than the Imperial, but far superior to them in energy of attack.
We kept a separate table, and had our own servants, and a body-guard of twenty cuirassiers appointed for our own selves.
Prussia (1740), he found his cavalry almost at the nadir of efficiency; even his cuirassiers drilled principally on foot.
The Russian dragoons were already close to Polotsk, when a prompt and skilful manoeuvre of Berkheim and the 4th French cuirassiers put an end to this warm affair.
Russian cavalry were seen rushing forward impetuously, and pushing Doumerc and his cuirassiers on their right.
They had not long to wait, under a terrible fire, before the French cuirassiers came sweeping through the fields towards them.
It came when the charging cuirassiers were within thirty yards of them.
A furious charge both man and horse soon prostrates and repels, And all the cuirassiers are cracked like lobsters in their shells!
The Duke put his arm around him to support him, but the cuirassiers surged against them and tore them apart.
In Berlin they would have said it was a revolution, and the cuirassiers would have been charging, sabre in hand, amidst that infuriate mob.
Nothing could stand before this terrific weapon, and the breast-plates and plumed morions of the French cuirassiers would have been undoubtedly crushed beneath them, had they ever met in mortal combat.
They 're excellent fellows, these cuirassiers of ours, and I know you 'll like them.
It was Nansouty who led them, and his heavy cuirassiers were in the van; and then came the grenadiers a cheval; ours was the third, in column.
Nansouty's cuirassiers came next; they had suffered severely at Jena, and were obliged to muster several of their wounded men to fill up the gaps in their squadrons.
The Fourth Cuirassiersof the Guard," replied the soldier I addressed; "Milhaud's brigade.
And here come the cuirassiers of the Guard, with a detachment of their own as escort; how splendidly they look in the bright sun, and how proudly they come!
The ranks wavered, and through their cleft spaces of dead and dying our cuirassiers dashed in, sabring all before them.
The Cuirassiers and Carbineers of the Guard to form by threes in column of attack!
And now comes the order for the carbineers to move up; the cuirassiers have been cut to pieces.
At last, the squadrons to our right were seen to advance; and then a tremulous motion of the whole line showed that the horses themselves participated in the eagerness of the moment; and, at last, the word came for the cuirassiers to move up.
Cuirassiers were heavy cavalry wearing helmet and cuirass (two plates fastened together for the protection of the breast and back).
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