Wellington Against Massena by David Buttery
Author:David Buttery
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781844683611
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2012-08-30T04:00:00+00:00
Commissary August Shaumann of the King’s German Legion had been on the reverse slope of the ridge during the battle and afterwards came to observe the field. He recorded how, for the most part, the British and French fought without personal animosity and how unofficial truces were rapidly agreed:
With the help of my telescope I was almost able to distinguish each man. In the ravine there was a small stream, at which, with the most profound harmony, and as if nothing had happened, both French and English soldiers fetched water, and, as a sign of very special mutual esteem, exchanged their forage caps.158
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