Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi

VISIT TO LONDON. 107
Vivian immediately dispatched a messenger
to the saddlers to the Ordnance, to procure a
pair of stirrups to replace
the broken one.
It happened, singularly enough, that the Saddlers
had in their possession the stirrups
which Napoleon used in many of his campaigns;
so that Marshal Soult, during this
review, actually did what was next to standing
in his master's shoes !
" Seeing that Peter Parley was very much
interested in the Marshal, Major Meadows,
who had been engaged in the Peninsular war,
and had fought against him in some of his
most celebrated
battles, continued, when our
attention was not completely occupied by the
evolutions of the troops,
to relate many