If this is a fair sample of the resistance that we have to expect, throughout the whole country, we shall need at least fifty thousand men to subdue them." "Fully that," Menou said, shortly.

"There is no doubt that we blame the National Guards, who were so easily routed by the peasants on the tenth of March, more severely than they deserve.

I rode forward to encourage the men, at their last attack.

I never saw soldiers fight with such fury as did these peasants.

They threw themselves on the troops like tigers, in many cases wresting their arms from them and braining them with their own muskets.