Show I Charged a Whole Army The Urmanl have II story to match the world famous charge of the Light Brigade nt Hnlaklava It was equally magnificent and a good deal more useful use-ful than that costly blunder In the Crl mOl > At the battle of MarslaTour been b-een Clermany and France H became cessnry to save tho German nrmy at nny sacrifice by gaining time for more troop to com up Th gnral In command Int orle to two cavalry rglmnt to advance They were the flower of the Prussian MTV Ice Tho officer rode up to Aucrs wald the senior of the two com landers and told him to advance against the French You arc not serious was the reply You do not man me to altaek tM whole Frn < h nrmy I am serious I bring you positive or drs to do so Auerlwald bowed and oendlng tor the young prince of Hohenzollern ordered him Immediately to ride off the field The young man said I have done nothing noth-ing to deserve this and burst Into tears Auerswnld replied Tour family has sufferi quite enough I order you as a soldier to do your duty and obey your commnndlng ofllcr He then directed his men to advance tint at n toot pne thn a trot thn a gallop They did so and were almost all destroyed When the eunIvors had broken through the French Aucrswald ordered tho bugles to sound the assembly assem-bly Slowly sumo 67 were mustered Auerswald said Soldiers I thank > ou You i hnve done jour duty Lons live the king And he fell from his horse mortally woundd II recovrd con JClousncss but died the next day About 300 only of the two regiments remained alive but the army was saved |