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Identifier: boylifeofnapoleo00foae (find matches)
Title: The boy life of Napoleon, afterwards emperor of the French
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Foa, Eugénie, d. 1853
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Publisher: Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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will lead you into themost fertile plains in the world. I have come to takeyou into a country where you will find everything inplenty, — dollars, cattle, roast-meat, salads, honor, pal-aces, what you will. Soldiers of Italy, how do youlike that? Ah ! but that was grand, cried the youngster ; and you said ? We said, How do we like it, my general ? Tenthousand bullets ! March you at our head, and youwill see how we like it. His words gave us newheart; his promises seemed already to clothe us. Wewere ragged and tired; but it seemed, after that speech,as if we walked on air, and w^ere dressed in silkenrobes. Forward, march ! Boom — boom—boom! Ta-ra, ta-ra-ra! Hear the drums! See us marching!We marched through the day ; we marched throughthe nieht. We were faint with huno-er, but we marched.We were at Montenotte on the eleventh of April.We whacked the Austrians, — famous men, neverthe-less; well furnished, good fighters! But, bah! whatwas that to us ? We whacked them at Montenotte.
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LONG LIVE THE EMPEROR! 239 They ran ; we after them. We fell upon then at Mille-simo, at Deeo, at Mondovi, at Cherasco. We had ataste of the glory of being- conquerors. We routedthe Austrians in those fio-hts that were called theFive Days Campaign. W^e had brave generals withus ; and we had Napoleon ! From the heights of Cevahe showed us the plains of Italy, — the rich, well-watered land which he had promised us. Then wecrossed the Alps. Mighty mountains! Bah ! what ofthat ? We were Frenchmen ; we had Napoleon ! Weturned the flank of the Alps. We fought at Fom-bio ; we fought on the bridge of Lodi ; we marchedinto Milan. We were Frenchmen ; we had Napoleon!In fact, we conquered Italy! We fought at Areola;we conquered at Rivoli. Then who so great as theLittle Corporal ? We planted the eagles upon thelion of Saint Mark, at Venice — a famous lion, never-theless. But who could resist us ? We had Napoleon!Then we returned to Toulon. Then Napoleon said, Soldiers! two years ago you had n

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