Les Miserables

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522 Les Miserables is a wood. These three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the buildings of the chate ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 523 Thirty-eight loopholes, pierced by the English at irregular heights, are there still. In fro ...

524 Les Miserables apple-tree leans far over to one side, its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly a ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 525 CHAPTER III THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 Let us turn back,—that is one of the story-teller’s ...

526 Les Miserables a one of our balls killed six men. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to his vict ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 527 suffering from an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened powers ...

528 Les Miserables man into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All this was contained in that battle, according to Napo ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 529 CHAPTER IV A Those persons who wish to gain a clear idea of the battle of Waterloo have only ...

530 Les Miserables As for the plain itself, let the reader picture to himself a vast undulating sweep of ground; each rise comma ...

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532 Les Miserables CHAPTER V THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES Every one is acquainted with the first phase of this battle; a beginni ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 533 that it was necessary that the sun should come out and dry the soil. But the sun did not mak ...

534 Les Miserables A detail to be noted. There was in the English infantry, particularly in Kempt’s brigade, a great many raw re ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 535 battle. Quid obscurum, quid divinum. Each historian trac- es, to some extent, the particular ...

536 Les Miserables is a certain instant when the battle degenerates into a com- bat, becomes specialized, and disperses into inn ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 537 CHAPTER VI FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON Towards four o’clock the condition of the English a ...

538 Les Miserables French drummer-boy. Baring had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword. Many flags had been lost, one from Alt ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 539 brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized by war, which permits traps, was so we ...

540 Les Miserables centre. An enormous battery was masked by sacks of earth at the spot where there now stands what is called th ...