There was even no lack of intellectual aliment, for a little field-library had been established by the exchange of books.
Langethal told us of his night's rest in a ditch, which was to entail disastrous consequences.

Utterly exhausted, sleep overpowered him in the midst of a pouring rain, and when he awoke he discovered that he was up to his neck in water.

His damp bed--the ditch--had gradually filled, but the sleep was so profound that even the rising moisture had not roused him.

The very next morning he was attacked with a disease of the eyes, to which he attributed his subsequent blindness.
On the 26th of August there was a prospect of improvement in the condition of the corps.

Davoust had sent forty wagons of provisions to Hamburg, and the men were ordered to capture them.