Of course I reported the fact to General Gassion, and he told the prince.

So, before attacking the enemy's lines, the prince charged right along the wood and destroyed the musketeers there.

If he had not done so, they would have taken him in rear when he was hotly engaged with the Spaniards, and might have changed the fate of the battle." "Certainly they might," the sergeant said.

"A volley from a thousand muskets from the rear would well shake even the best cavalry.

It was a happy thought of yours indeed." "Any merit there is in it was due to Turenne, who had carefully instructed me in everything that could be of importance when two hostile armies faced each other; and as he would never have dreamt of retiring to rest before having every place where an enemy could conceal himself carefully searched, it seemed to me a matter of course that it should be done.