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Torgau, a city about 30 miles northeast of Leipzig

Page 116. — I. Supply ton régiment,

2. manger de la vache enragée, to hâve a hard time, vache enragée is, literally, a cow affecied with hydrophobia.

Page 116. — I. vous voilà chez vous, hère y ou are at home, 2, j'avais beau regarder, / /ooked in vain.

Page 119. — I. Schwartzenberg was commander of the Austrians.

2. The Mulda is a small river that flows into the Elbe north of Leipzig.

3. la vieille garde was a division of picked troops, at this time commanded by La Tour-Maubourg.

Page 120» — I. quelque mille pas, about a thousand paces.

2. qui n'en finissait plus, which didnU end, It was so long that it seemed endless.

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