Note 81 — Chapter XVII · THE TRAINING OF THE CAVALRY OFFICER (continued)

Curély, the hero of countless brave deeds and daring reconnaissances in Napoleon’s campaigns, had by 1814 got as far as the command of a regiment, the 10th Hussars. On the 12th February at Château-Thierry he got an opportunity, and successfully threw his regiment at the flank of thirty squadrons of Landwehr. This gave an opportunity to Letort with the Dragoons of the Guard to charge the front. Napoleon in his bulletin only put: “Colonel Curély made himself conspicuous”; but he at once promoted him to the rank of general for this feat of arms.