Napoleon: A History of the Art of War ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1907 |
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Side 5
... hope of getting a backer , induced Ferdinand to seek a marriage in the new Imperial family . Napoleon was inclined to select the daughter of Lucien Bonaparte , and while this year in Italy he urged the project ; but his brother refused ...
... hope of getting a backer , induced Ferdinand to seek a marriage in the new Imperial family . Napoleon was inclined to select the daughter of Lucien Bonaparte , and while this year in Italy he urged the project ; but his brother refused ...
Side 7
... hope everything can be arranged , and it would be dangerous to antagonize these people too much . " And the next week : " I suppose that you have arrived to - day or will arrive to - morrow in Madrid . You will keep good discipline ...
... hope everything can be arranged , and it would be dangerous to antagonize these people too much . " And the next week : " I suppose that you have arrived to - day or will arrive to - morrow in Madrid . You will keep good discipline ...
Side 26
... hope that the " insur- rection " would die out of itself . He wrote Bessières , June 16 , that he must take no backward step , that revolution called more for the appearance of strength than the reality . And to Savary , lately one of ...
... hope that the " insur- rection " would die out of itself . He wrote Bessières , June 16 , that he must take no backward step , that revolution called more for the appearance of strength than the reality . And to Savary , lately one of ...
Side 67
... hope of being able to get into Blake's rear , although this was but a minor part of his plan . Victor was hesitating in his work . Between him and Lefebvre , Blake might have been surrounded , but they did not work together ; Victor ...
... hope of being able to get into Blake's rear , although this was but a minor part of his plan . Victor was hesitating in his work . Between him and Lefebvre , Blake might have been surrounded , but they did not work together ; Victor ...
Side 76
... hope of Spain . They were confident , but had assembled without a definite plan . The line was over ten miles long ; and in it , owing — to the disagreements of the Spanish generals , the troops had been hastily marshaled , Palafox on ...
... hope of Spain . They were confident , but had assembled without a definite plan . The line was over ten miles long ; and in it , owing — to the disagreements of the Spanish generals , the troops had been hastily marshaled , Palafox on ...
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Abensberg advance April archduke arrived artillery Asparn assembled attack Augsburg Austrian Badajoz Bagration Barclay battalions battle Bavarians Bernadotte Berthier Bessières Bohemia Breitenlee bridge Burgos campaign Castaños cavalry centre Charles column command corps cross Danube Davout debouch defeat defense division Donauwörth Ebro Eggmühl enemy enemy's English Essling Eugene fight flank force French army Friant front Grand Army Guard guns headquarters Hilaire Hiller horse hundred infantry Ingolstadt Isar July Junot Kollowrath Kutusov La Romana Landshut Lannes Lefebvre left bank Linz Lisbon Lobau Madrid manœuvre Marmont marshals Massena miles Montbrun Moore Moscow move Murat Nansouty Napoleon Napoleon wrote operations orders Oudinot Passau Poniatowski Portugal position pushed Ratisbon reached rear regiments reserve retired retreat road Russian Salamanca Saragossa sent Smolensk soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish Tagus Talavera thousand town troops Tudela Vandamme Victor Vienna village Vilna Vitebsk Wagram Wellesley Wellington wing Wrede wrote Berthier
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Side 360 - These circumstances, combined with the extreme fatigue of the troops, the want of provisions, and the number of wounded to be taken care of, have prevented me from moving from my position.
Side 284 - Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation.
Side 167 - Austria arrived at my bivouac in Moravia ; you heard him implore my clemency, and swear an eternal friendship.
Side 744 - Sebastian were invested. Joseph's reign was over, the crown had fallen from his head, and after years of toils and combats which had been rather admired than understood, the English general, emerging from the chaos of the Peninsular struggle, stood on the summit of the Pyrenees a recognized conqueror. From those lofty pinnacles the clangor of his trumpets pealed clear and loud, and the splendor of his genius appeared as a flaming beacon to warring nations.
Side 569 - here is the battle you have longed for ; it is necessary, for it brings us plenty, good winter-quarters, and a safe return to France. Behave yourselves so that posterity may say of each of you, ' He was in that great battle under the walls of Moscow.
Side 724 - that discipline had deteriorated during the campaign in a greater degree than he had ever witnessed or ever read of in any army, and this without any disaster, any unusual privation or hardship save that of inclement weather ; that the officers had, from the first, lost all command over their men, and...
Side 53 - Let us bear our triumphal eagles to the pillars of Hercules, there also we have injuries to avenge ! Soldiers ! you have surpassed the renown of modern armies, but have you yet equalled the glory of those Romans who, in one and the same campaign, were victorious upon the Rhine and the Euphrates, in Illyria and upon the Tagus! A long peace, a lasting prosperity, shall be the reward of your labours.
Side 214 - You have justified my expectations; you have made up for numbers by bravery. You have gloriously proved the difference which exists between the soldiers of Caesar and the armed hordes of Xerxes. "In a few days we have triumphed in the three pitched battles of Thann, Abensberg, and Eckmiihl, and in the engagements of Peising, Landshut, and Ratisbon.
Side 53 - Rome, which, in the same campaign, triumphed on the Rhine and on the Euphrates, in Illyria and on the Tagus.
Side 569 - Soldiers ! there is the field •of battle you have so much desired ! henceforth victory depends on you : it is necessary to us : it will give us plenty, good quarters for the winter, and a speedy return to your country. -Behave yourselves as you did at Austerlitz, at Friedland...