The officers are very kind.

They allow him a sum for taking care of me.

Of course I am often in barracks, and have learned the drill, and I have heard and read about battles and sieges, so I am chosen to command." "And so you know something of the battles in which Turenne was engaged ?" "I think I know about them all, sir, both in Holland and on the Rhine, and have seen plans of the battles.

Of course this is not at all like La Motte, which was on the top of a high rock, so that when Turenne was ordered to attack with his regiment after the general's son had failed, he had to pass not only through a heavy fire, but through the huge stones that the enemy hurled down.

It was grand; and he did well at all the other sieges.