text: " Varnhorst familiar with every service of the continent was a capital cicerone and I listened with strong interest as he pronounced the names and gave little characteristic anecdotes of the gallant regiments that successively wheeled at the foot of the slope--the Archducal grenadiers--the Eugene battalion which had won their horse-tails at the passage of the Danube--the Lichtensteins who had stormed Belgrade--the Imperial Guard a magnificent corps who had led the last assault on the Grand Vizier's lines and finished the war