10/39 Rejected by death, he was reclaimed by Louis Bonaparte. This man is now at Lambessa. Thanks to Louis Bonaparte, this revered field of the Federation may in future be called Aceldama. One of the unhappy soldiers whom the man of the 2nd of December transformed into executioners, relates with horror, and beneath his breath, that in a single night the number of people shot was not less than eight hundred. A few shovelfuls of earth, a sprinkling of holy water by a priest, and all was said. |