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Usage examples of charleroi.

The despatch told how the Prussian garrison at Charleroi was falling back, not on Brussels, but north-east to where the main Prussian army was assembling.

Nevertheless, as clearly as he could, he wrote down what he had observed that a large French force of infantry, cavalry and artillery was marching north out of Charleroi on the Brussels road.

The artillery officer wondered why no one had thought to blow up the bridge which crossed the River Sambre in the centre of the town, but he supposed there must be fords close to Charleroi which would have made the destruction of the fine stone bridge into a futile and even petulant gesture.

He led his men back to Charleroi where a desultory musket fight was flickering across the river.

The Prussian Hussars, left with a battalion of infantry to garrison the northern half of Charleroi, waited as French infantry reached the town and garrisoned the houses on jhe river's southern bank.

France was on the march, Charleroi had fallen, and there were no more rivers between the Emperor and Brussels.

A French force was advancing northwards from Charleroi, probably aiming at the gap between the British and Prussian armies.

They want us to think they will advance through Charleroi, while all the time they will come towards us here!

The message, which had originated in Charleroi just thirty-two miles away, had first been sent to Marshal Blücher at Namur, then copied and sent on to Brussels, a total journey of seventy miles.

The French might have advanced into the country south of Charleroi, but the Duke, as ever, brooded over the left-hand side of the map which showed the great sweep of flat country between Mons and Tournai.

First he would have pushed a strong diversionary force at Charleroi, then, when the allies moved to defend Brussels from the south, he would have launched the real attack to the west.

The despatch which would have told Wellington of the loss of Charleroi and the further French advance lay in the Major's saddlebag.

From the Prince's headquarters a road ran eastwards through Nivelles to meet the Charleroi highway at an unnamed crossroads.

He had a sudden fear that this was not the Charleroi to Brussels road.

He knew there had been fighting about Charleroi, and he had heard of some skirmishes being fought in the villages south of the Prince of Orange's headquarters, but whether the French had invaded in force, or whether there was an attack coming in the direction of Mons, the Duke still did not know.