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* '''ditch:''' in ''Les Miserables'', Victor Hugo describes the lane that ran across the Waterloo battlefield from Braine-l'Alleud to Ohain as a sunken ditch, steeply embanked and ravined; in the Chapter entitled ''The Unexpected'', he describes how almost half the 3500 French cuirassiers who charged Mont-Saint-Jean died when they fell into this unforeseen obstacle - a third of Dubois' brigade plunged in and filled the ravine with their corpses, forming a bridge for the followers - this was the beginning of Napoleon's defeat
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**[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/135 ''Les Miserables'']

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  • ditch: in Les Miserables, Victor Hugo describes the lane that ran across the Waterloo battlefield from Braine-l'Alleud to Ohain as a sunken ditch, steeply embanked and ravined; in the Chapter entitled The Unexpected, he describes how almost half the 3500 French cuirassiers who charged Mont-Saint-Jean died when they fell into this unforeseen obstacle - a third of Dubois' brigade plunged in and filled the ravine with their corpses, forming a bridge for the followers - this was the beginning of Napoleon's defeat