History of the campaign in France, in the year 1814. TranslSmith, Elder, and Company Cornhill., 1839 - 414 ページ |
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advanced guard advanced-guard affair aide-de-camp Aisne allied armies Arcis army of Silesia arrived artillery attack Aube Austrians Bar-sur-Aube battle battle of Brienne Brienne Bülow campaign cavalry Chalons Champaubert Château Thierry Châtillon Chaumont Chernisheff columns command corps Cossacks Count Barclay Count Giulay Count Langeron Count Pahlen Count Witgenstein Count Wrédé Craone defend detachment Dizier Emperor Alexander enemy enemy's Etoges Fère Champenoise Field Marshal fire Fismes flank force fortresses France Grand Army guns Hereditary Prince Kleist La Ferté-sous-Jouarre Langres Laon left wing light infantry Majesty Majesty's Marmont Marne Meaux Montmirail morning Mortier movement Napoleon negociations night Nogent o'clock occupied Olsoofief Paris peace Prince of Wirtemberg Prince Schwarzenberg Prince Volkonsky prisoners Provins Raiéfsky reached rear rear-guard received regiments Reims retire retreat Rhine right bank right wing road Russian Sacken Sacken and York sent Sézanne Silesian army Soissons tion town troops Troyes versts victory village Vitry Wintzengerode
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18 ページ - Army reaches the field of action. All the four armies — viz., the Grand Army, that of Italy, Blucher, and Wellington — will stand on one line in the most fertile part of France, forming the segment of a circle. The four armies will push forward, diminishing the arc and drawing near its centre, that is, Paris, or the headquarters of Napoleon.
343 ページ - Inhabitants of Paris! The Allied Armies are under your walls. The object of their march to the capital of France is founded on the hope of a sincere and durable pacification with her. For twenty years Europe has been deluged with blood and tears. Every attempt to...
15 ページ - Our enemies, by piercing to the heart of our dominions, wrought us much evil ; but dreadful was the retribution : the Divine wrath crushed them. Let us not take example from them : inhumanity and ferocity cannot be pleasing in the eyes of a merciful God. Let us forget what they have done against us. Instead of animosity and revenge, let us approach them with the words of kindness, with the outstretched hand of reconciliation. Such is the lesson taught by our holy faith : Divine lips have pronounced...
18 ページ - The grand object is not to lose a moment, that we may not allow Napoleon time to form and discipline an army, and furnish it with supplies, our business being to take advantage of the disorganized state of his forces. I entreat your Royal Highness not to lose a moment in putting your army in motion, in furtherance of the general plan of operations.
192 ページ - I hasten to communicate to your highness the reports received from Count St. Priest. His Majesty charges me to inform you that, according to his opinion, it is now more necessary than ever to act on the offensive. Henceforth your hands will be completely unbound, and you may act according to military calculation.
192 ページ - Sens is drawing us away from the enemy, and that it is therefore indispensable to direct all our forces to the right towards Arcis, between that town and Vitry ; and, at all events, to reinforce them with the reserves, which should be ordered to move forward.
16 ページ - Warriors ! I trust that, by your moderation in the enemy's country, you will conquer as much by generosity as by arms, and that, uniting the valour of the soldier against the armed, with the charity of the Christian towards the unarmed, you will crown your exploits by keeping stainless your well-earned reputation of a brave and moral people.
105 ページ - Kutusoff deceived me by his march on our flank : the burning of Moscow was a barbarous act — it was the work of the Russians. I took Berlin, Madrid, and Vienna, and no such thing happened.
17 ページ - is the plan proposed by me, and entirely approved by the Austrian and Prussian commanders-in-chief : — Offensive operations on the part of the Grand Army between Mayence and Strasbourg offer many difficulties, as we cannot leave the fortresses behind us without observation. By entering France on the side of Switzerland, we meet with incomparably fewer difficulties, that frontier not being so strongly fortified. Another advantage attending this movement is the possibility of turning the Viceroy's...
406 ページ - ... triumphant entrance into Paris, who spoke of their exploits from Moscow to the Seine as of deeds which had been accomplished under the immediate guidance of divine Providence, and ascribed to themselves only the glory of having been chosen as the instruments for the fulfilment of the divine decree. They spoke of their victories without exultation, and in language so simple, that it seemed to us as if they did so by common consent out of politeness. They showed us a silver medal, worn equally...