Note 53 — Chapter XV
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It was repeatedly proved, during this sanguinary struggle, that man to man, the enemy’s cavalry, although clad in glittering steel, could not withstand our heavy Dragoons. They rode completely over them, time after time; their ringing shouts of Vive l’Empereur being more than once altered to “Quarter! quarter!” with the Union Brigade riding victoriously through or over them. It was then as at Balaclava: “Hurrah! hurrah!” and “Hurrah for Ould Ireland and Scotland for ever.” They shall not lord it over us. And then, as if they were pasteboard (the foe is advancing)—
Sound! Bid your terrible trumpets bray, Blow, till their brazen throats give way. Sound to the charge! Sound, I say. Hurrah! hurrah!