General Faidherbe was thus without orders with regard to the evacuation of Dieppe and Abbeville.
The Governor will haul me over the coals unmercifully—you know him, that fat old Faidherbe?
But at two o'clock in the afternoon General Faidherbe took up his retreat.
“Our intentions are pure and noble, our cause is just, the future cannot fail us,” said Faidherbe.
General Faidherbe himself only escaped the same fate by the help of the inhabitants.
