The book The Conscript a Story of the French War of 1813 was written by author Emile Erckmann Here you can read free online of The Conscript a Story of the French War of 1813 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Conscript a Story of the French War of 1813 a good or bad book?
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This letter was a consolation to us all. We knew that before many days passed we must be on the field of battle, and it seemed a last farewell from home for at least half of us. Many were never to hear again from their parents, friends, or those who loved them in this world. XII But, as Sergeant Pinto said, all vre had yet seen was but the prelude to the ball; the dance was now about to commence. Meanwhile we did duty at the citadel with a bat- talion of the Twenty-seventh, and from the top of ...the ramparts we saw all the environs covered with troops, some bivouacking, others quartered in the villages. The sergeant had formed a particular friendship for me, and on the eighteenth, on relieving guard at Warthau gate, he said: " Fusilier Bertha, the Emperor has arrived. " I had yet heard nothing of this, and replied, re- spectfully : " I have just had a little glass with the sapper Merlin, sergeant, who was on duty last night at the general's quarters, and he said nothing of it. " Then he, closing his eye, said, with a peculiar expression : " Everything is moving; I feel his presence in the air.
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