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Identifier: battlesofninetee01forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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8 BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. The sun shone out to mock them ; there washard fighting almost every day ; and at length,when the main body reached Smorgoni, theEmperor resolved to put in practice an in-tention he had formed some time before ofhurrying secretly to Paris to forestall the realtruth of his disasters. He has been unjustly accused of deserting hismen when they were at their last gasp ; but inreality no blame attaches to him, as his presencein France was absolutely necessary, and had he On the 18th the Emperor arrived in Paris.The day after his departure the cold increasedto a frightful degree ; men lost their reason, andsprang into the burning huts. At Wilna, wherethere were great stores of food, they pillagedwithout check ; and even the Old Guard paidno heed to the gencralc. All Napoleons linenand his state tent were burned there, and thefew remaining trophies, drawings being madeof them before their destruction by his orders. The Jews committed nameless cruelties on
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IN A TOWERING PASilON THE MARSHAL DRtW HIS SWORD (p 329). remained with the army he could have donenothing to restore it, for things had gone toofar. To what extent he had contributed tothose disasters is, of course, another matter. After revising his 29th Bulletin, and appoint-ing Murat to the chief command, he got intohis carriage with Caulaincourt (brother ofAuguste), Rustan the Mameluke, and CaptainWukasowitch sitting on the box, Duroc andLobau following in a sledge, and escorted bysome Polish lancers, drove off in the dark onthe night of the 5th December. Later on he exchanged the carriage foranother sledge, the peasant driver of which diedin Bavaria as recently as 1887, preserving to thelast some of the coins Napoleon had given him. the French wounded, and although Duruttesdivision increased the army by 13,000, theydied by hundreds, immense numbers havingbeen frozen and suffocated at the gate of thecity in their mad attempt to get in. The day after their arrival the Russians wer

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