Note 147 — Chapter LXXXIX

"Cries of all is lost, the Guard is driven back, were heard on every side. The soldiers pretend even that on many points ill-disposed persons cried out sauve qui peut. However this may be, a complete panic at once spread itself throughout the whole field. The Old Guard was infected, and was itself hurried along. In an instant, the whole army was nothing but a mass of confusion; all the soldiers of all arms were mixed pel-mel, and it was utterly impossible to rally a single corps."—Bulletin, Moniteur, June 21. "A retrograde movement was declared, and the army formed nothing but a confused mass. There was not, however, a total rout, nor the cry of sauve qui peut, as has been calumniously stated in the official bulletin."—Ney to the Duke of Otranto.