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Title: A life of Napoleon Boneparte:
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814
Publisher: New York, McClure, Phillips & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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them. My army has suffered greatly, and suffers still,but this calamity will cease with the cold. To every one he declared that it was the Russians, not he,who had suffered. It was their great city, not his, whichwas burnt; their fields, not his, which were devastated.They did not take an eagle, did not win a battle. It was thecold, the Cossacks, which had done the mischief to theGrand Army; and that mischief? Why, it would be soonrepaired. I shall be back on the Nieman in the spring. But the very man who in public and private calmed andreassured the nation, was sometimes himself so overwhelmedat the thought of the disaster which he had just witnessed,that he let escape a cry which showed that it was only hisindomitable will which was carrying him through; that hisheart was bleeding. In the midst of a glowing account tothe legislative body of his success during the invasion, hesuddenly stopped. In a few nights everything changed.I have suffered great losses. They would have broken my
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