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Waterloo account 1815
In "An account of the battle of Waterloo by a British Officer on the Staff" - herausgegeben in London 1815
wird auch geschrieben über die Verletzten und Toten. Ich hoffe es ist kein Problem das es auf English geschrieben ist, sonst werde ich versuchen eine Übersetzung zu schreiben.
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P.S. To you, who have so often seen a field of battle I have hardly thought it neccessary to enter into a description of the horrors which this day presented. But they so far exceed anything that we have witnessed, that I cannot, after all, avoid endeavouring to paint them to you in colours which, believe me, fall very far short of the reality.
To say that where the battle raged most furiously the ground was actually covered with the dead and the dying; that arms and appointments of all the sorts were scattered throughout the field; that numbers of horses were seen in every direction, some only having lost their riders, others smarting under wounds, and wild from pain – others dreadfully lacerated, and unable to move, that the cavalry of the enemy and our own, repeatedly charging over the same ground, trampled indiscriminately on the wounded of both armies, and thus brought tenfold sufferings upon the miserable men whose wounds were too severe to allow of their seeking safety in the rear; and that the horrors of the scene were heightened by the constant bursting of shells, and at times, even by the explosion of a tumbril or an ammunition-wagon, is to give you a faint idea of what actually took place during those tremendous hours of destruction and death, the impression of which can never be effaced from the memory of those who had the good fortune to escape. On the fall of the hill behind our line, every hole, every little irregularity of ground, was filled with the wounded, whose strength had enabled them to creep thus far, in hopes to find shelter from the shot and shells of the enemy. Here horrible to relate ! were to seen followers of the army, both men and women, venturing so far, and lazarding their lives for plunder, and even wounded soldiers, forgetting their sufferings in their thirst after pillage, actually stripping their companions almost before life was extinct. In our front the wounded French, still more unfortunate, were lying in immense numbers, unable to regain their position, and exposed to the fire both of their enemies and of their friends. The road towards Brussels, from the multitude of wounded of every description passing to the rear, had the appearance of being filled by an army in column of march; while the farm houses and yards adjoining to the road were crammed with mangled wretches, who had contrived to drag themselves to that distance, and composed a horrid mass of dying and of dead.
In "An account of the battle of Waterloo by a British Officer on the Staff" - herausgegeben in London 1815
wird auch geschrieben über die Verletzten und Toten. Ich hoffe es ist kein Problem das es auf English geschrieben ist, sonst werde ich versuchen eine Übersetzung zu schreiben.
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P.S. To you, who have so often seen a field of battle I have hardly thought it neccessary to enter into a description of the horrors which this day presented. But they so far exceed anything that we have witnessed, that I cannot, after all, avoid endeavouring to paint them to you in colours which, believe me, fall very far short of the reality.
To say that where the battle raged most furiously the ground was actually covered with the dead and the dying; that arms and appointments of all the sorts were scattered throughout the field; that numbers of horses were seen in every direction, some only having lost their riders, others smarting under wounds, and wild from pain – others dreadfully lacerated, and unable to move, that the cavalry of the enemy and our own, repeatedly charging over the same ground, trampled indiscriminately on the wounded of both armies, and thus brought tenfold sufferings upon the miserable men whose wounds were too severe to allow of their seeking safety in the rear; and that the horrors of the scene were heightened by the constant bursting of shells, and at times, even by the explosion of a tumbril or an ammunition-wagon, is to give you a faint idea of what actually took place during those tremendous hours of destruction and death, the impression of which can never be effaced from the memory of those who had the good fortune to escape. On the fall of the hill behind our line, every hole, every little irregularity of ground, was filled with the wounded, whose strength had enabled them to creep thus far, in hopes to find shelter from the shot and shells of the enemy. Here horrible to relate ! were to seen followers of the army, both men and women, venturing so far, and lazarding their lives for plunder, and even wounded soldiers, forgetting their sufferings in their thirst after pillage, actually stripping their companions almost before life was extinct. In our front the wounded French, still more unfortunate, were lying in immense numbers, unable to regain their position, and exposed to the fire both of their enemies and of their friends. The road towards Brussels, from the multitude of wounded of every description passing to the rear, had the appearance of being filled by an army in column of march; while the farm houses and yards adjoining to the road were crammed with mangled wretches, who had contrived to drag themselves to that distance, and composed a horrid mass of dying and of dead.
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