NAPOLEONS STORY OF WATERLOO.
" Napoleon's Voyage to St. Helena "is tin theme of an art'cle ia " Blackwood," Heie la oue of the most interesting passages In a conversation lust night with Sir Geoige Coekburn it turaed on Waterloo, he said thai he should not have attacked Wellington on the 18th hud he supposed he would have foujrht him ;he acknowledged that he bail not i-x»ct 1 r reconnoitred the posiliou ; he piuised the Hritish tioops. and gave the svjir account of tL■ final result as in the otiicial despatch ; be di nn-d that tie movement of flank had auy < ffect ; the malevolent, he said, raisi d the cry of * auve <|iii peut, and as it »a« already dark he coultl not remedy it. "Had there bien daylight," he added, " I should havt thrown iside my cloak, and -very Fieuchman would have rallied rouud me ; but darkness and treachery were too much for me."
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2278, 15 September 1899, Page 5
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153NAPOLEONS STORY OF WATERLOO. Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2278, 15 September 1899, Page 5
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