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feeble, and could accomplish nothing. He was obliged to
wait for the body of the army corps, and he had received
orders to concentrate his forces before entering into line;
but at five o’clock, perceiving Wellington’s peril, Blucher or-
dered Bulow to attack, and uttered these remarkable words:
‘We must give air to the English army.’
A little later, the divisions of Losthin, Hiller, Hacke, and
Ryssel deployed before Lobau’s corps, the cavalry of Prince
William of Prussia debouched from the forest of Paris,
Plancenoit was in flames, and the Prussian cannon-balls
began to rain even upon the ranks of the guard in reserve
behind Napoleon.
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