Journal of the Waterloo campaign, vol. 2 (of 2)

PAGE Passage of the Army--The Road blocked up--Preparing to Bivouac--The Nassauers--The White Flag--Reception at Forêt--The Peasantry--Village of Montay--Ordered to Return--A Ni...

Passage of the Somme--Indifference of the Natives--Our Quarters--French Deserters--A French Chaussée--Mortemer and its Miseries--Improved Aspect of the Country--First Traces of...

The Cumberland Hussars--Warlike Rumours--Expectation and Excitement--A Quiet Morning--Orders to Advance--We come on the Enemy--Our Dilemma--In Sight of Montmartre--First Glimpse...

On the March--The Seine--Beauty of the Country--Passage of the Seine--Colombes--Drawbacks--My Quarters--The Garden and Grounds--View from my Window--My Chateau--Its Furnishings-...

Our Major Domo--Inspection of Troops--Prospect of Change--Prussian Bivouac--The Louvre--The Venus de Medici--The Laocoon and the Apollo--The Paintings--The Tuileries--The Garden...

My New Quarters--Their Desolate Aspect--First Night in them--Change of Abode--My New Residence--Ma’amselle Rose--A She-Dragon--Our Fare--The Villagers--The Maire and his Complai...

Sisters of Charity--New Messroom--A House-warming--The Bond Street of Paris--The Boulevards--Their Frequenters--Street- Beggars--Street-Vendors--Street-Scenes--News-Rooms--Open-...

My First Ride to Paris--The Aristocratic Quarters--Different Quarters of the City--Differences in these--The Boulevards--The Quays--The Squares of London and Paris--An Excursion...

Admiral Rosily’s Villa--The Duke and the 5th Division--Views in the Neighbourhood--Our Patron Saint--Village Amusements--The Fauigny Affair--M. Fauigny and the Duke--Injustice o...

Our Fellow-Passengers--From Dover to Calais--For Paris once more--Montreuil again--Abbeville and its Cathedral--A Bridal Party--Hotel at Breteuil--A Race--Arrival at Clermont--T...

_22d._--Morning fine, and things look more cheerful. March, according to order, at four. Troop turned out of its wet bivouac; did not look very brilliant; moreover, there had be...

_27th._--Fine warm morning. Started early after an excellent breakfast of coffee and _et ceteras_. Our orders were to rejoin the grand column at Ugny l’Equippée; but we had not...

_July 1st._--Tiresome work this--very! Here we are in Chenevière with little to do but smoke and sleep, or saunter about the hundred yards of street, which is all the place can...

_July 8th._--Here I am in heaven, as it were--in _Colombes_!--in a _perfect paradise_! More of that hereafter. I am sitting scribbling at last in a handsome room, all to myself!...

_July 17th._--Alas! how transient is all earthly happiness! To-morrow I quit Colombes and my delightful residence for ever; except, indeed, I pay it a casual visit, and that I s...

_Sunday, July 22d._--This is the first time I have been sufficiently settled and quiet to sit down to write since the evening of the 17th, my last at Colombes--dear Colombes! Th...

_August 1st._--Our fine weather still continues--with the exception of one or two days, we have scarcely had any rain since we arrived here. Our army is breaking up from hence a...

_August 5th._--I had intended seeing some of the sights to-day--so accordingly, after breakfast, mounted on Nelly, cigar in mouth, and followed by my smart orderly, Fitzgerald,...

I believe in a former part of this journal I noticed a chateau belonging to an Admiral Rosily. It is situated quite at the extremity, or rather beyond the village, on the road t...

Two months I rusticated in Berkshire, and then, my leave of absence having nearly expired, set off in the beginning of November, taking with me my wife, whose determination not...