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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be

continuing.

Les Miserable by Victor Hugo

chapter eleven a bad guide to

Napoleon a good guide to

bulow the painful

surprise of Napoleon is well known.

Grouchy hoped for blucher arriving.

Death instead of life. Fate has

these turns. The throne of the world was

expected. It was St. Helena that was

seen. If the little shepherd who served

as a guide to Bulowe Bluchers lieutenant, had

advised him to debouch from the forest above Frischemont

instead of below plain snow, the form of the

19th century might perhaps have been

different. Napoleon would have won the battle at

Waterloo, by any other route than

that. Below Plaisano, the prussian army would have come out

upon a ravine impassable for artillery, and

Bulow would not have arrived. Now the

prussian general muffling declares that 1 hour

delay, and Blucher would not have found Wellington on his

feet. The battle was lost. It

was time that bulow should arrive. As will be seen,

he had, moreover, been very much

delayed. He had bivouacked at d'on le

Mans and had set out at daybreak.

But the roads were impassable and his

division stuck fast in the mire. The

ruts were up to the hubs of the cannons. Moreover,

he had been obliged to pass the dial on the narrow bridge of the

waver. A street leading to the bridge had been

fired by the French so that caissons and ammunition

wagons could not pass between two rows of burning houses

and had been obliged to wait until a conflagration was

extinguished. It was midday before Bulows

vanguard had been able to reach Chapelle St. Lambert.

Had the action been begun 2 hours earlier,

it would have been over at 04:00 and Blucher

would have fallen on the battle won by Napoleon.

Such are these immense risks proportioned to an

infinite which we cannot comprehend.

The emperor had been the first, as early as

midday, to descry with his field glass on the

extreme horizon something which had attracted

his attention. He had said, I see yonder

a cloud which seems to me to be troops.

Then he asked the duke de la Mady, solte, what

do you see in the direction of Chapelle St. Lambert?

The marshal, leveling his glass, answered,

four or 5000 men. Sirenhouse evidently

grouchy. but it remained motionless in the mist.

All the glasses of the staff had studied the cloud

pointed out by the emperor. Some said, it

is trees. The truth is that the

cloud did not move. The emperor detached

domans division of light cavalry to reconnoitre. In that

quarter, Milo had not moved. In

fact, his vanguard was very feeble and

could accomplish nothing. He was obliged to wait

for the body of the army corps, and he had received orders

to concentrate his forces before entering into line.

But at 05:00 perceiving wellingtons

peril, Blucher ordered Bulow to attack

and uttered these remarkable we must give

heir to the english army. A little

later, the divisions of Losten, Hiller, Hack, and

Riesel deployed before Lebauscorps.

The cavalry of Prince William of Prussia, debouched from the

forest of Paris. Plansnot was in flames,

and the prussian cannonballs began to rain even upon the ranks of the

guard in reserve behind Napoleon.

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>> Speaker D: Take a look at a book and let's

see what we can find.

Take it chapter by chapter,

one at a time

the mountains we can

climb

take your words go word, line by.

>> Speaker A: Line, one bite at a time.