II. pli du terrain, /z^Z/t'w, ;'(7z

Page 61. — 1. 32, faire le coup de sabre : see note on page 48, Une 6.

Page 62. — 1. 4. *' les émigrés " were the members of the royalist party who had fled from France at the beginning of the Révolution. See also the article on Ney in the Biographical Dictionary.

1. 18. montant . . . Ney.; lit., bringing up his firmness 011a levelwith the heroism of Ney. Wellington showed himself as firm as Ney was heroic.

1. 22. salut, salvation. Wellington seems to be misrepresented in the oft-quoted remark, " O, for Bliicher or night." Most descriptions of this, battle are chiefly remarkable on account of the vast amount of Imaginative writing they contain. See Gardner's Qttatre-Bras, Ligny and Waterloo, page 339.

Page 63. — 1. 2. siècle, hère period, epoch, referring to the wars of the French Révolution.