Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century

part in this great movement, the struggle lasting more than an hour

before the French staggered back in repulse. Then from the French lines came a stupendous cavalry charge, the massive columns composed of no less than forty squadrons of cuirassiers and dragoons, filling almost all the space between Hougoumont and La Haye Sainte as they poured like a torrent upon the British lines. ...