Les fossés de cette route étaient remplis de fusils abandonnés ; Fabrice en choisit un mais la route, quoique fort large, était tellement encombrée de fuyards et de charrettes, qu’en une demi-heure de temps, à peine si le caporal et Fabrice avaient avancé de cinq cents pas ; on disait que cette route conduisait à Charleroi.
The ditches on either side of this road were filled with muskets that had been thrown away; Fabrizio selected one: but the road, although very broad, was so blocked with stragglers and transport that in the next half-hour the corporal and Fabrizio had not advanced more than five hundred yards at the most; they were told that this road led to Charleroi.