History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC.LXXXIX. to the Restoration of the Bourbons in M.DCCC.XV.W. Blackwood and sons, 1855 |
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... hand , a long and eloquent letter to Napoleon , in which he declared that " if he would withdraw his forces from the Russian territory , he would forget all that had passed , and be ready to hearken to terms of accommodation . " This ...
... hand , a long and eloquent letter to Napoleon , in which he declared that " if he would withdraw his forces from the Russian territory , he would forget all that had passed , and be ready to hearken to terms of accommodation . " This ...
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... hands of Davoust , who defend- ed its approaches with thirty thousand men , and had adopted every imagin- able precaution to secure it from at- tack . On the 23d July , Bagrathion pushed forward General Raeffskoi with twenty thousand ...
... hands of Davoust , who defend- ed its approaches with thirty thousand men , and had adopted every imagin- able precaution to secure it from at- tack . On the 23d July , Bagrathion pushed forward General Raeffskoi with twenty thousand ...
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... hands of Barclay de Tolly , who , though admirably qualified forthe duty , was obnoxious to the army on account of his foreign descent , and received little cordial support from the native Russian generals under his orders . 19. On the ...
... hands of Barclay de Tolly , who , though admirably qualified forthe duty , was obnoxious to the army on account of his foreign descent , and received little cordial support from the native Russian generals under his orders . 19. On the ...
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... hands , and no human power shall prevail against you . " 29. While the minds of all ranks were in the highest state of excitement from these proclamations , and a sense of the crisis which awaited their coun- try , the Emperor arrived ...
... hands , and no human power shall prevail against you . " 29. While the minds of all ranks were in the highest state of excitement from these proclamations , and a sense of the crisis which awaited their coun- try , the Emperor arrived ...
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... hands . A return to Wilna that jealousy are incalculable . ” — With would be still more dangerous : it would necessarily lead to a retreat to the Vistula , and the loss of the whole of Lithuania . At Smolensko , again , we shall find at ...
... hands . A return to Wilna that jealousy are incalculable . ” — With would be still more dangerous : it would necessarily lead to a retreat to the Vistula , and the loss of the whole of Lithuania . At Smolensko , again , we shall find at ...
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alliance allied amidst arms arrived artillery attack Austria Barclay battalions battle battle of Bautzen battle of Borodino battle of Lützen bridge British cabinet campaign Caulaincourt cavalry centre columns combat command commenced conscripts corps Cossacks Davoust detached direction disasters division Dresden effect Elbe Emperor empire enemy enemy's Europe field fire flank force fortresses France French army French empire front garrison Germany grand army Guard guns head headquarters horses hostilities hundred thousand immense imperial infantry King Kutusoff loss Lützen Marshal ment Metternich military Minsk Moscow Murat Napo Napoleon never night officers Oudinot passed peace pieces of cannon position Prince prisoners provinces ranks rear rear-guard regiments rendered retired retreat road sand Saxony sian side Silesia Smolensko soldiers soon Soult St Petersburg success thou tion Torgau troops Urumea vast victory Vienna vigour Vistula Wellington whole Wilna Wittgenstein wounded
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105. oldal - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended, wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast And Winter barricades the realms of frost; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay ; Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day!
97. oldal - Immediately a place Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark; A lazar-house it seemed, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased, all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony; all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.
20. oldal - A general shout that all the region rends. As when the fleecy flocks unnumber'd stand In wealthy folds, and wait the milker's hand, The hollow vales incessant bleating fills, The lambs reply from all the...
105. oldal - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
25. oldal - These operations would be brilliant; they would form a glorious termination to the campaign : but they would not conclude the war. Peace is before us : we have only to march eight days to obtain it : so near our object, it is impossible to deliberate : let us advance to Moscow.
78. oldal - MIEUX QU'AU SEIN DE SA FAMILLE " became a favourite song of the French Royalists during the Revolution, and is still regarded as the peculiar song of the House of Bourbon. The words, taken from Grétry's " Lucile," 1769, mean: " Where can one be better than in the bosom of his family ?
179. oldal - Members of the municipality," replied the trembling burgomasters. " Have you bread ? " " Our resources have been entirely exhausted by the requisitions of the Russians and Prussians." " Ha ! it is impotsMe, U it ? I know no such word : get ready bread, meat, and wine. I know all you have done : you richly deserve to be treated as a conquered people : but I forgive all from regard to your King : he is the saviour of your country. You have been already punished by having had the Russians and Prussians...
108. oldal - More horrible was the look of a third, whose eyes had been frozen — the eyelids hung down rotting, the globes of the eyes were burst, and protruding from their sockets. It was awfully hideous, but a spectacle more horrible still was to present itself.
275. oldal - But Caesar's greatness, and his strength, was more Than past renown, and antiquated power; 'Twas not the fame of what he once had been, Or tales in old records and annals seen; But 'twas a valour, restless...
241. oldal - ... Villodar, by which the light divisions were to cross. The attack on these bridges was delayed till the third and seventh divisions, who formed the reserves of the centre, had come up to their ground, and they were somewhat retarded by the roughness of the hills over which they had to march'; and meanwhile Wellington sent orders to Hill to arrest the progress of his extreme right on the summit of the ridge, in order that the whole army might advance abreast.