item: #1 of 10 id: 14313 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo date: None words: 123877 flesch: 82 summary: Now, Miss Mabel, Mr. Penfold said gayly, after the first talk over the commission was concluded, you will have for the future to treat Mr. Ralph Conway with the respect due to an officer in his majesty's service. Such was the state of things at Penfold Hall when its owner's sudden announcement that he had invited young Ralph Conway to come to stay there had fallen like a bombshell upon his sisters. keywords: board; boy; british; captain; cavalry; conway; course; day; denis; fire; french; good; half; hand; hour; house; jacques; left; letter; life; look; mabel; man; matter; men; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; news; night; o'connor; penfold; place; ralph; room; round; run; sir; tallboys; tell; thought; time; troops; want; withers; work; years cache: 14313.txt plain text: 14313.txt item: #2 of 10 id: 20515 author: Brady, Cyrus Townsend title: The Eagle of the Empire: A Story of Waterloo date: None words: 82932 flesch: 83 summary: I can ill spare any officer from my weak corps of boys and old men, much less a veteran, the marshal laughed. In the ruined villages and farms they came across many dead bodies of old women, old men and children, with here and there a younger woman whose awful fate filled the old soldier and the young alike with grim and passionate rage. keywords: arms; army; battle; blücher; cavalry; château; command; countess; d'aumenier; day; door; eagle; emperor; english; face; fire; france; french; god; good; guard; hand; head; heart; king; laure; left; life; line; mademoiselle; man; marquis; marteau; men; moment; monsieur; napoleon; night; officer; regiment; room; russian; sire; soldier; thought; time; voice; way; woman; young cache: 20515.txt plain text: 20515.txt item: #3 of 10 id: 29263 author: Lawrence, William title: The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns date: None words: 63906 flesch: 60 summary: General delight at the end of the war -- March to Bordeaux -- Kind reception of the troops by the inhabitants of the country on the way -- Particular good fortune of Lawrence -- Great attention on the part of his host -- A magnificent dinner -- Singular effects of a campaign on Lawrence's taste for feather-beds -- He tells of moving accidents, &c., &c., and excites the pity of his hostess -- Two men sentenced to be flogged, but begged off by the inhabitants of the town -- Arrival at Bordeaux -- Encampment on the Garonne -- Fraternizing of the natives and the troops -- Good times in camp -- We did not seem to be in any hurry to quit the country before everything was thoroughly arranged, and having no enemy pushing on our rear, we were often billeted at towns and villages longer than we need have been, which caused our march to take more time to accomplish, but made it much more comfortable. keywords: army; body; captain; chapter; colonel; company; country; day; days; end; enemy; fire; french; general; ground; house; left; lord; man; march; men; miles; money; morning; night; place; poor; regiment; rest; retreat; sergeant; set; shot; thought; time; town; troops; way; wellington; work cache: 29263.txt plain text: 29263.txt item: #4 of 10 id: 31289 author: Erckmann-Chatrian title: Waterloo: A sequel to The Conscript of 1813 date: None words: 77988 flesch: 81 summary: All along the road, in the little gardens, women and old men, everybody, were at work, digging, planting, and watering. The great plains of Champagne with the smoking villages to the right and to the left, where the women, children, and old men were wandering about in groups, half naked, one carrying a miserable old mattress, another with a few pieces of furniture on his cart, while the snow was falling from the sky, and the cannon roared in the distance, and the Cossacks were flying about like the wind with kitchen utensils and even old clocks hanging to their saddles, shouting hurrah! keywords: arms; aunt; battalion; battle; buche; cannon; catherine; commandant; country; day; emperor; english; eyes; father; father goulden; fire; good; goulden; grédel; guard; half; head; joseph; left; man; men; moment; morning; o'clock; officers; order; people; prussians; rear; right; road; saw; soldiers; think; thought; time; village; work; zébédé cache: 31289.txt plain text: 31289.txt item: #5 of 10 id: 31517 author: De Lancey, Magdalene, Lady title: A Week at Waterloo in 1815 Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an Account of How She Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey, Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mortally Wounded in the Great Battle date: None words: 29815 flesch: 78 summary: ii., p. 130.] Etienne De Lancey (great-grandfather of Sir William De Lancey), was born in Caen, France, 24th October 1663; and died in the city of New York, 18th November 1741. [Footnote 8: _Loyalists of the American Revolution_ (Sabine), vol. i., 365.] Stephen, the eldest son of Brigadier-General Oliver De Lancey, and father of Sir William De Lancey, was born in New York City about 1740; and died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, December 1798. keywords: army; battle; brussels; captain; colonel; day; de lancey; duke; footnote; general; hall; lady; lancey; morning; narrative; night; room; saw; sir; sir william; thought; time; vol; waterloo; wellington; william cache: 31517.txt plain text: 31517.txt item: #6 of 10 id: 32332 author: Belloc, Hilaire title: Waterloo date: None words: 38742 flesch: 66 summary: It was Napoleon's business to fall upon whatever Prussian force might be concentrated before him and upon his right and to destroy it, meanwhile holding back, by a force sent up the Brussels road to Quatre Bras, any attempt Wellington and his western army might make to join the Prussians and save them. First, the battle of Waterloo was a decisive action, the result of which was a complete military success for the Allies in the campaign they had undertaken, and a complete military defeat for Napoleon, who had opposed them. keywords: action; army; army corps; battle; bras; corps; erlon; french; half; left; ligny; line; men; napoleon; ney; prussian; quatre; retreat; right; road; second; troops; waterloo; wellington cache: 32332.txt plain text: 32332.txt item: #7 of 10 id: 52991 author: Eaton, Charlotte A. (Charlotte Anne) title: Waterloo Days: The narrative of an Englishwoman resident at Brussels in June 1815 date: None words: 55741 flesch: 63 summary: In the streets we met numbers of poor wounded British officers, weak, pale, faint, and emaciated, slowly and painfully moving a few yards to taste the freshness of the summer and the blessed beams of heaven. Every house was filled with wounded British officers; and how many, like our old friend Major L., were silently enduring lingering and excruciating torture, unable to raise themselves from the couch of pain! keywords: antwerp; army; battle; belgic; british; brussels; buonaparte; country; day; duke; enemy; england; english; field; footnote; french; glory; good; great; heart; horses; house; left; life; man; men; moment; morning; napoleon; night; numbers; officers; people; place; prussians; road; sir; soldiers; streets; thought; time; town; troops; victory; waterloo; way; wellington; wounded cache: 52991.txt plain text: 52991.txt item: #8 of 10 id: 58268 author: Siborne, William title: The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 date: None words: 244031 flesch: 60 summary: * * Out of the disposable force of the troops of the Line, and partly also out of the National _Guard d'élite_, were formed seven _Corps d'Armée_, four Corps of Reserve Cavalry, four Corps of Observation, and an Army of the West or of La Vendée. Arrangements had also been made for reinforcing, at the end of June, the two Armies of the Rhine and the Alps, with 50,000 men from the troops of the Line organised in the Regimental Depôts, and with 100,000 men from the National _Guard d'élite_; and with a view to afford a Second Line and Support to the Grand Army, commanded by NAPOLEON in person, the latter was to be augmented by 100,000 men of the National Guard, and by 60,000 men of regular troops taken from the Depôts, where the additional Battalions and Squadrons of Regiments were in course of daily organisation. keywords: 1st; 2nd; 3rd; advance; anglo; armies; army; artillery; attack; battalion; batteries; battery; battle; belgian; blücher; body; bras; brigade; british; bülow; captain; cavalry attack; cavalry brigade; cavalry corps; cavalry division; centre; charge; charleroi; charleroi road; close; colonel; column; command; corps; corps d'armée; count; cuirassiers; day; direction; distance; division; dragoons; duke; dutch; effect; emperor; enemy; extreme; field; fire; flank; following; foot; force; forward; fourth; french; general; general baron; german; grouchy; ground; guard; guns; half; having; haye; head; high; horse; hougomont; hussars; imperial; infantry; infantry brigade; june; king; landwehr; landwehr cavalry; left; legion; lieutenant colonel; lieutenant general; lieutenants; light cavalry; ligny; line; line battalion; main; major; manner; march; marshal; means; moment; morning; movement; namur; napoleon; ney; o'clock; officers; order; paris; place; point; portion; position; possession; post; prince; prussian; purpose; quarters; quatre; rear; regiment; reserve cavalry; reserve corps; retreat; ridge; right; road; second; sir; skirmishers; squadrons; support; thielemann; time; town; troops; view; village; von; waterloo; wavre; way; wellington; wood; wounded; zieten; | | cache: 58268.txt plain text: 58268.txt item: #9 of 10 id: 599 author: Thackeray, William Makepeace title: Vanity Fair date: None words: 310961 flesch: 74 summary: What had that little Mrs. Crawley to say to him? During the time of these battles and dangers, old Miss Crawley was living at Brighton, very moderately moved by the great events that were going on. keywords: amelia; arms; baronet; becky; bed; black; boy; briggs; brother; business; bute; captain; captain crawley; care; carriage; chapter; child; children; city; colonel; colonel crawley; company; conversation; country; course; daughter; day; days; deal; dear; dinner; dobbin; door; drawing; emmy; english; evening; eyes; face; fair; family; father; fellow; fine; french; friend; gaunt; general; gentleman; george; george osborne; girl; good; great; half; hall; hand; having; head; heart; home; honour; horses; hour; house; husband; jane; jos; joseph; kind; ladies; lady; lady crawley; lady jane; law; leave; left; letter; life; little; london; look; looking; lord; love; major; making; man; manner; master; men; mind; miss amelia; miss briggs; miss crawley; miss osborne; miss sedley; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; news; night; o'dowd; osborne; party; pay; people; person; pitt; pitt crawley; place; play; pleasure; poor; pounds; present; pretty; queen; rawdon; rawdon crawley; rebecca; red; regiment; room; round; russell; saw; school; sedley; sharp; sir; sir pitt; sister; society; son; square; state; steyne; street; table; talk; think; thought; time; town; vanity; voice; want; way; white; wife; william; woman; world; years; young cache: 599.txt plain text: 599.txt item: #10 of 10 id: 62571 author: None title: Wellington's Men: Some Soldier Autobiographies date: None words: 136724 flesch: 76 summary: The Rifles fought well this day, and we lost many men. There were certainly not many men, even in Craufurd's rearguard, stronger in body or hardier in temper than Harris, yet at last even his iron strength and dauntless energy failed him. keywords: 3_s; advance; anton; arms; army; artillery; attack; battalion; battle; body; bras; brigade; british; camp; captain; cavalry; charge; close; colonel; corps; day; days; dead; division; duke; enemy; english; face; feet; fellow; field; fighting; fire; firing; forward; french; gave; general; ground; guns; half; hand; harris; having; head; hill; history; horses; infantry; kincaid; left; life; line; long; lord; lying; major; man; march; men; mercer; moment; morning; night; officer; order; place; point; position; post; quatre; rear; regiment; retreat; rifles; river; road; saw; scene; sergeant; shot; sir; soldier; thought; time; town; trans; troops; village; vols; waterloo; way; wellington; wounded cache: 62571.txt plain text: 62571.txt