Napoleon and the Marshals of the EmpireLippincott, Grambo, & Company, 1855 |
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Adige allies appointed archduke army of Italy arrived artillery attack Augereau Austerlitz Austrian battalions battle Bernadotte Berthier Bessières Blucher bridge brigade campaign cavalry centre character charge column command consul corps council council of ancients courage crossed Davoust defeated defend Desaix division duke emperor enemy enemy's engagement fire flank force French army Genoa glory guard head headquarters honor horse hundred imperial infantry Jourdan Kellermann king Lannes Lefebvre left bank legion of honor Louis Macdonald mand Mantua Marmont MARSHAL OF FRANCE Massena ment military Moncey Mont morning Mortier Murat Napo Napoleon night o'clock occupied officers operations Oudinot Paris passed peer of France pieces of cannon poleon position prince prisoners rank rear received regiment reserve retired retreat returned Rhine road Russian sent siege Smolensk soldiers soon Soult Suchet thousand tion took troops victory village Wavres Wellington whole army wing wounded
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222 ページ - I am thane of Cawdor^ If good, why do I yield to that .suggestion, Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make...
191 ページ - I must dazzle and astonish. If I were to give the liberty of the press, my power could not last three days." To make a great noise is his favorite design. " A great reputation is a great noise : the more there is made, the farther off it is heard. Laws, institutions, monuments, nations, all fall; but the noise continues, and resounds in after ages.
284 ページ - Napoleon, faithful to his oath, declares that he renounces for himself and his heirs, the thrones of France and Italy, and that there is no personal sacrifice, even that of life, •which he is not ready to make for the interests of France.
291 ページ - I place myself under the protection of their laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies.
336 ページ - ... kinds. He was a man of uncommon bravery ; cool in the midst of fire ; and possessed of a clear, penetrating eye, ready to take advantage of any opportunity which might present itself. Violent and hasty in his expressions, sometimes even in my presence; he was ardently attached to me. In the midst of his anger he would not suffer any person to join him in his remarks.
4 ページ - Berthier, Murat, Moncey, Jourdan, Massena, Augereau, Bernadotte, Soult, Brune, Lannes, Mortier, Ney, Davoust, Bessieres, Kellermann, Lefevre, Perignon, Serrurier, were named marshals of the empire.
174 ページ - ... council of Five Hundred proclaims to you that factious men, with drawn daggers, have interrupted the deliberations of that assembly. He calls upon you to employ force against these disturbers. The council of Five Hundred is dissolved !" " President," replied the general,
272 ページ - Napoleon, giving way to the habits of his early life, should expose himself to danger; but he only said, " Come on, my brave fellows, fear nothing, the ball that is to kill me is not yet cast " The firing redoubled; and under its shelter the Bretagne Guards established themselves in the suburbs, while General Pajol carried the bridge by so vigorous a charge of cavalry, that there was not time to blow up a single arch. The Wurtemberg troops...
214 ページ - I iinmediatelv re-established religion. I made it the ground-work and foundation •upon which I built I considered it as the support of sound principles and good morality, both in doctrine and in practice. Besides, such is the restlessness of man, that his mind requires that something undefined and marvellous which religion offers : and it is better for him to find it there, than to seek it of Cagliostro, of Mademoiselle Lenormand, or of the other soothsayers and impostors.
156 ページ - But by degrees, he assumed courage to look it in the face. He then began to deliberate, and the state of great irresolution which tormented his mind affected his whole frame. He was observed to wander about his apartments, as if pursued by some dangerous temptation. Nothing could rivet his attention; he every moment began, quitted, and resumed his labour; he walked about without any object; inquired the hour, and looked at his watch; completely absorbed, he stopped, hummed a tune with an absent air,...