CHAPTER XII.

At Quatre Bras--Our Bivouac--Morning after the Battle--Our Position--The Battle-Field--Position of the French-- Skirmishing--An Alarm--The Retreat--Aspect of the Field--A Memento of Battle--Alone on the Field--Inactivity of the Enemy--Their Advance--Orders and Counter-Orders--Napoleon--A Storm--Our Danger--Our Narrow Escape--Our Retreat--Arrival at Genappe--The Enemy again--In Action with them--The Rocket Brigade--An Eccentric Missile--Panic among the Brunswickers-- Take up Position--Rejoin the Army--Bivouac for the Night-- Discomforts--Comfortless Night--Speculations as to the Morrow--A Godsend, 253