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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2477, 24 January 1871, Page 2

Not a Coward.—Macmahou victorious was almost made a god of by the French people, who could speak no words too good of him. Macmah n in adversity is reviled on all sides, save by the army he led, and accpsqd of treachery aijd cowardice. Thatthe Marshal was’ nq coward, Ips acts are sufficient to show, and his one act af Woqrth would stamp him as a hero, were there no Solferino, Magenta, or Algeria to point to. This is what an American correspondent—a man who has' regarded the French with no kindly eye—writes :—“At Woerth, in front of those battalions which had escaped massacre' and the shame of surrender en musse, rose Macihihon, bolding lifs sword by the blade, brandishing it like a club, and riding a large black charger covered with foam -the third ha had mounted. His uniform was tom to rags, his scarf had been carried away, as al s o a portion of his shirt, exposing his . mu —u breast. j.u«j man was sape.*,. ......va. his great black charger into the circle of fire he had just broken. The Chas eurs came back and loosened r in. They passed and and re-passed several times through the enemy’s lines, which they continually broke. The officers took the big black charger by the bridle, the soldiers saying, ‘ Vive M‘Mahon ! ’ And the Marshal, standing up in his stirrups, took in at a giauce the field of battle, lit a cigar, aud organised his famous retreat. At seven o’clock we were in a capital position, and M‘Mahon returned to the front along a field, where the Pi uss au aimy, quite exhausted, was unable to pursue its march. This man, who from