NAPOLEON VALUED THE BAYONET.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 179, 13 July 1912, Page 2

NAPOLEON VALUED THE BAYONET.

I Napt-1 vahu-I th: - bayonet. In | 1796, i’i his famous Italian campaign | ! he inspected Massena's division, and ! said ’hat Fo wr.:; idcu-rd w’th ti:c conditit.n • f the troops, but regreU | ted the search v cf baycr-ets. ”1' had sc oner sec a i.-:!dier without his) breeches than v-phom Li s h.avom-L” ' An- the. - r- mark < f I.C v.p. : ’ it ■ allowable for an aide-tk-camp *oi lose his breeches in 11: 1 . - .■oii’ng, bur [ never his desi'tate’ics nor h.is sword.”! Th: ~e rem - : - k ; were :.o odd then i ■’s tl.iy :n ye.i? m.x Wiif.n Napoleonjoined the army breeches wore rath-| i ;■ a lux', y ."..I th.’ 1 saimeulct tos, the, md reecl.r.l mob. had put tip some | very good fighting in the early warsj cf tlie IleptiL-’ic. Indeed, cur cwi’i picturesque HiNdmiders made their! name with the bayonet and without I ’be l.’ree'-is. The ver, absence of' :h? l-’.ttv r to have added ’.<<■ the terror cf thei" oncoming at Aim™. I and elsewhere. I think it is K!o-| ling’s Mulvaney th’.it tells hew i ; band t..f young daredevils swum a; river and captured a town in Adon;'; shirt. The enemy were more afraid j of their unusual get-up than cf their arms, fjtill, bayonet or no bayonet. breeches are. on the whole, desirable, at the beginning of the campaign. ?.!! oven’-;. At the end of it the hero. li!:o Ben Battle, may have no uirther need of them. It will be remembered in Ben’s .case A can took off h : s leg 7 - -. , So lie laid down his arms. , After ib.e a.-niy rvrgeons.and earpen | ters had fiGrd h’m out again he went to see the girl he’d left behind him. j But she Made him quite a scoff; And v.bin Jte saw his timber toes Began to take them off. ”0 Sidlv Brown! O Sally Brown! For all your jeering speeches, Al duty’s call I left my legs In Badajos’s breeches.”