Show tw in a battle war means not only public but private calamity through its means nations are convulsed and family relations severed during the peninsular war one of the generals observing tho numerous cavalry against which his brigade bad to contend advised the officers in command not to weaken their ranks by coo ducting prisoners to the rear ant after disarming them to let them proceed of their own accord it was not mon therefore to see groups of french dragoons riding quietly to the rear looking for some one to take them in charge it happened at ono time that a certain hussar having taken a prisoner ordered him also to fall back ant the man having ridden some little distance aa directed suddenly applied spurs to his horse and made a demonr to hia regiment the hussar observing this aa quickly pursued overtook him and shot him dead having bia rein he conveyed him some little distance to the rear and proceeded to take off the dead mans talise there on overhauling ha eon tents he found a letter from hia own father which proved that it was his brother who had fallen by his hands stupefied with horror he sat motion lesa and for some minutes then big tears rolled down his cheeks and he exclaimed the king has coia banded and god will forgive cef he put apura to bw horse and rushed headlong into battle that very day ha was killed near the spot where be had innocently ahot his brother jontha companion |