Note 2 — Chapter XVI · (continued 2)
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The officers were so aware of their danger, that Cabañes heard one of the staff say they should certainly have believed it was their General’s intention to betray them to the enemy, ... if they had not had the most entire confidence in him. It seems indeed probable that Buonaparte, not foreseeing what the consequences of a defeat in Catalonia would be, would have thought the disgrace or destruction of a general whom he disliked a compensation for the loss of this army.
General Duhesme perished in the flight from Waterloo: the stain of his blood was pointed out to me on the threshold of the inn at Genap, where he was cut down by a Brunswicker.