Life of Napoleon, tr., with notes by H.W. Halleck. With an atlas, Volume 4 |
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affairs allied army armistice arrived artillery attack Austria battle battle of Dresden Bautzen Belluno Bernadotte Blucher Bohemia bridge Bulow campaign cannon Caulaincourt cavalry centre Champ-Aubert columns command Davoust debouched defeat defense defile Dennewitz detached directed division Dresden Duchy of Warsaw Duke Elbe Emperor Alexander enemy enemy's English Eugene favor fifty thousand flank forces France French gained garrison grand allied grand army Grouchy guard hope hundred thousand infantry Katzbach Kleist Lauriston Leipsic Lutzen Macdonald Marmont Marne marshal mass Metternich Mortier movement Murat Napoleon negotiations Ney's o'clock operations Oudinot Paris passed peace Pirna Pleisse position Prince reached rear received reënforced remained retire retreat Rhine road Russian Sacken Saxony Schwartzenberg sent Silesia soldiers Souham Soult sovereigns Spain success Suchet sustained Tarragona third corps thirty thousand thousand combatants tion Torgau troops Troyes twenty thousand Vandamme victory Vienna Wachau Wellington Wittgenstein
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Page 260 - faithful to his oath, declares that he renounces, for himself and his heirs, the thrones of France and Italy, and that there is no personal sacrifice, not even that of life
Page 355 - British faith will have been lost in the hospitality of the Bellerophon. I appeal therefore to history. It will say that an enemy who made war for twenty years on the people of England, came freely, in his misfortune, to seek an asylum under their laws. What more striking proof could he give of his esteem and
Page 354 - I protest solemnly, in the face of heaven and of men, against the violation of my most sacred rights, by the forcible disposal of my person and of my liberty. I came freely on board the Bellerophon. I am not the prisoner; I am the guest of England.
Page 355 - misfortune, to seek an asylum under their laws. What more striking proof could he give of his esteem and of his confidence ? But how did they answer it in England ? They pretended to hold out an hospitable hand to this enemy, and when he
Page 351 - changed, and I now offer myself as a sacrifice to the hatred of the enemies of France. May they be sincere in their declarations, and direct their
Page 355 - I was immediately entitled to the hospitality of the British people. If the government, by giving orders to the captain of the Bellerophon to receive me and my suite, intended merely to lay a snare for me, it has forfeited its honor, and sullied its flag.
Page 354 - I come, like Themistocles, to seat myself at the hearth of the British people. I put myself under the protection of their laws, and
Page 354 - YouR ROYAL HIGHNESS,— " Exposed to the factions which divide my country, and to the hostility of the great powers of Europe, I have terminated my political career.
Page 354 - from Your Royal Highness, as from the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies.
Page 351 - only against my person. My political life is ended; and I proclaim my son, under the title of Napoleon II., Emperor of the French. The