Mar 21, 2025
All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the head of the column of cuirassiers reared up with a frightful clamor. On arriving at the culminating point of the crest, ungovernable, utterly given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and cannon, the cuirassiers had just caught sight of a trench,-- a trench between them and the English. It was the hollow road of Ohain. - Vol. 2, Book 1, Chapter 9.
Interestingly, both <Waterloo 1970> Film and <Napoleon 2023> Film both omitted the trench scene, and according to the wikipedia, the French curassiers' charge was blocked by the British hollow box-formations, not by the trench. So Victor Hugo misunderstood about the battle?
