enormous trains required to feed and provide camp equipage for an

army operating in a sparsely settled country were dispensed with; in

truth, about the only impedimenta of the Germans was their wagons

carrying ammunition, pontoon-boats, and the field-telegraph.

On the morning of the 20th I started out accompanied by Forsyth and

Sir Henry Havelock, and took the road through Boissy St. George,

Boissy St. Martins and Noisy Le Grand to Brie. Almost every foot of

the way was strewn with fragments of glass from wine bottles, emptied