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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... ; one hundred and twenty pieces of cannon , and five hundred caissons , were left at Wilna | rendered him 2 [ CHAP . LXXII . HISTORY OF EUROPE . Scene at crossing the Niemen, 1 -Proclamation of the Emperor Alexander,
... ; one hundred and twenty pieces of cannon , and five hundred caissons , were left at Wilna | rendered him 2 [ CHAP . LXXII . HISTORY OF EUROPE . Scene at crossing the Niemen, 1 -Proclamation of the Emperor Alexander,
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... pieces of cannon . Although the camp at Drissa has not attained such celebrity as the vast labour exert ed on it might have led one to antici- pate , yet it was one of the greatest military constructions of modern times . The Russians ...
... pieces of cannon . Although the camp at Drissa has not attained such celebrity as the vast labour exert ed on it might have led one to antici- pate , yet it was one of the greatest military constructions of modern times . The Russians ...
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... pieces of intelligence which had a material influence upon his ulterior views in the campaign . The first was the peace of Bucharest , concluded on 14th July between the Russians and the Turks , whereby a large part of their army on the ...
... pieces of intelligence which had a material influence upon his ulterior views in the campaign . The first was the peace of Bucharest , concluded on 14th July between the Russians and the Turks , whereby a large part of their army on the ...
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... pieces of cannon . 40. Napoleon continued to press upon the retreating Russian columns ; but on the following day Newerofskoi their united force being nineteen thou- sand men , they resolved to throw themselves into Smolensko , and ...
... pieces of cannon . 40. Napoleon continued to press upon the retreating Russian columns ; but on the following day Newerofskoi their united force being nineteen thou- sand men , they resolved to throw themselves into Smolensko , and ...
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... pieces by democratic frenzy and ex- ternal cupidity . A citadel of more modern construction was still less capable of defence , from the decayed state of its ramparts , which were only of mouldering earth , that in many places might be ...
... pieces by democratic frenzy and ex- ternal cupidity . A citadel of more modern construction was still less capable of defence , from the decayed state of its ramparts , which were only of mouldering earth , that in many places might be ...
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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.