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‘It’s the English rear-guard getting ready to clear out,’ he said to Bertrand. ‘I shall capture the six thousand English who have just landed at Ostend.’ He was talking expansively, with the ardour he had shown when they disembarked in the Golfe Juan on 1 March, and pointing to a cheering peasant he exclaimed, ‘There you are, Bertrand – a reinforcement already!’ On this night of 17 June he mocked Wellington, saying, ‘That Englishman needs a lesson.’ The rain fell more heavily and there was a crash of thunder as he spoke.
At three-thirty that morning he lost one of his illusions. The officers sent out to reconnoitre reported that there was no movement in the enemy lines. Nothing was stirring, no camp-fires had been extinguished. Wellington’s army was asleep; a profound silence reigned on earth while the skies resounded. At four o’clock a peasant was brought in who had acted as guide to an En
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