- Ney.- Lasnes.-Soult.-Suchet.— Augereau. — Berthier. —Rapp.—Macdonald.—Beauharnois.—Maret. -Jourdan.. Grouchey. Vandamme. - Bertrand. - Gourgaud.— Junot. Massena. - Davoust. — Moreau. -Lefebre.-Marmont.- Mortier. - Dupont. — Victor. — Oudinot. — Bernadotte.—Murat.— Soldiers of the army of Italy. - Battle of Marengo. - The Napoleon - 293 -Private in Bland's dragoons. - Lewis de Crillon. -Wolfe. -Aber- crombie. - Colonel Gardiner.-Major André.-General Picton.-Sir John Moore.-Marquess of Anglesey.-Sir John Elley.-Colonel Col- borne.-Colonel Ponsonby.-General Baird.-Sir Thomas Picton.- Sir James Macdonnel.-Lord Edward Somerset.-Sir Henry Hardinge. -Sir Colin Campbell.-General Evans.-Lord Hill.—The regimental Sailors must strike their colours, and soldiers surrender when they have death for an enemy. —A court-martial. — Shooting a soldier. Naval execution.-Soldier's burial.-Funeral at sea.-Battle of Water- loo. First attack.-Second attack.- Third attack.- Defeat of Buo- naparte.-Consequences of the battle of Waterloo.-Chelsea College.— Soldiers and Sailors.-Recruiting Sergeant, Officer and Jack-tar.Generals and Admirals. Which is the braver, the Red Coat or the Blue Jacket?- Cavalry and Infantry. - Engineers, Artillery, and Marines. -Not all sunshine with Soldiers and Sailors.-The old Soldier.-Different opinions about war. When are Sailors most steady?-A standing rule for a Soldier. "WELL, boys, though I am your uncle, so busy has my life been, that I have seen but very little of you. During my present visit we shall become B better acquainted with each other. You want to hear about soldiers and sailors. You have seen privates on parade, a recruiting sergeant with stripes on his arm, and an officer with epaulettes on his shoulder. You have seen, too, a jolly Jack-tar just come home from a cruise, rigged out in his holiday clothes, check shirt, blue jacket, and white trousers. You have read, perhaps, a little about engagements and sea-fights, and remember the names of a few famous generals and admirals, and now you want to hear more about soldiers and sailors. You shall know all that I can tell you; but, mind! let us have no confusion. Do not all of you ask me questions at once! Speak one at a time, or, if you like it better, let one of you be spokesman for the rest. You shall have all the information that I can give you." "Thank you!-thank you, uncle! That will be the very thing; for we know that you can tell us a great deal." "I am, as you know, neither commander-inchief of the army, nor lord high admiral of the navy, nor do I see any likelihood at present of my being appointed either the one or the other; but having seen a good deal of the land and sea-service, and noticed the habits and conduct of men, from the raw recruit to the general officer;-from the sailor before the mast to the "Red Flag at the Fore," I must have been dull indeed to have picked up nothing. It becomes no man to be vain of his knowledge, and, therefore, I will not boast of mine; but ask me what you will, and I will answer to the best of my ability." "Please to tell us which are the bravest men, soldiers or sailors." "The bravest! That is a puzzling question, which the seven wise men of Greece, were they here, could not answer. Never yet did a red-coat go where a blue-jacket was afraid to follow, nor a son of Neptune brave a danger that a son of Mars would not, willingly, have faced before him. Weigh one golden sovereign against another in a pair of scales, and they will not give a more even balance than the bravery of a soldier weighed against that of a sailor." "How many kinds of soldiers are there?—for some are very different to others." 66 Why, let me see, in the cavalry there are lifeguards, horse-guards, dragoon-guards, heavy dragoons, light dragoons, lancers and hussars; and in the infantry there are foot-guards, infantry of the line, light troops, fusiliers, highlanders, riflemen, and the staff-corps. I have said nothing of the engineers and artillery, nor indeed of the marines, who have more to do with the navy than the army." 66 They say that one Englishman can beat ten Frenchmen. Is it true?" "Not a word of truth in it. A brave man is a match for a brave man of the same size all the |