History of Europe: From the Commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC.LXXXIX. to the Restoration of the Bourbons in M.DCCC.XV.William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London., 1843 |
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... never exceeded 80,000 men . See JOMINI , ii . 335 , and WILSON , 4 . * " Bonaparte , " said this proclamation , which was read in all the Russian churches , " after having by open force , or secret intrigue , ex- tended his power over ...
... never exceeded 80,000 men . See JOMINI , ii . 335 , and WILSON , 4 . * " Bonaparte , " said this proclamation , which was read in all the Russian churches , " after having by open force , or secret intrigue , ex- tended his power over ...
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... never yet felt the curb , while his master , following his beloved Attaman to the theatre of action , bore his formidable lance in his hand , his pistols and sword by his side , and his whole effects , the fruit of years of warfare , in ...
... never yet felt the curb , while his master , following his beloved Attaman to the theatre of action , bore his formidable lance in his hand , his pistols and sword by his side , and his whole effects , the fruit of years of warfare , in ...
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... never been able to protect itself against its own provinces ? If a barrier is to be erected against Russian ambi- tion , and a state formed dependent on the French alliance for its existence , far better to look for it in Prussia ...
... never been able to protect itself against its own provinces ? If a barrier is to be erected against Russian ambi- tion , and a state formed dependent on the French alliance for its existence , far better to look for it in Prussia ...
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... never again to leave . The bright days of Poland have returned ; we are under the ægis of a monarch accustomed to overcome difficulties by miracles . " - HARDENBERG , ix . 329 . 1 Oginski , 1 XLIV . CHAP . journals , to disavow the ...
... never again to leave . The bright days of Poland have returned ; we are under the ægis of a monarch accustomed to overcome difficulties by miracles . " - HARDENBERG , ix . 329 . 1 Oginski , 1 XLIV . CHAP . journals , to disavow the ...
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... never failed to animate the 1806 . troops . After a severe action of fourteen hours , the passage was forced , and Count Osterman , who commanded the Russian rearguard , retreated upon Nasielsk . In this well - contested affair each ...
... never failed to animate the 1806 . troops . After a severe action of fourteen hours , the passage was forced , and Count Osterman , who commanded the Russian rearguard , retreated upon Nasielsk . In this well - contested affair each ...
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allies arms arrived artillery attack Augereau Austerlitz bank battalions battle of Eylau Benningsen Berlin Decree Bernadotte Bign blockade British Buxhowden campaign cavalry CHAP colonies combat command commenced contest corps Cossacks danger Dantzic Davoust decree divisions Doctoroff effect empire enemy engaged England English Europe Eylau favour field of battle force fortresses France French Emperor front frontier Golymin Government Grand Army horse hostilities hundred Imperial Guard important infantry Kamenskoi Konigsberg Lannes Lestocq Lord loss Marshal Marshal Ney's measure ment military Moldavia Murat Napoleon Narew nation negroes numbers orders Parl Passarge period pieces of cannon Poland Polish Prince Pultusk rear retreat Russian army Russian right sian side Silesia slave trade soldiers Soult squadrons St Petersburg success thousand strong Tilsit tion town treaty treaty of Tilsit troops Turkish victory Vistula Warsaw whole Wilson winter XLIV XLVI XLVII xvii xviii
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Seite 135 - Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King.
Seite 674 - It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me;" — and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
Seite 135 - Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep That fought around their king. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell.
Seite 675 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Seite 675 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory ! SONG.
Seite 256 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
Seite 215 - If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation, and oblige them to have recourse to physical force. Anarchy will then be the result, but it will have been brought about by despotism.
Seite 660 - SOUTHBY, i. 499. In the midst of this disgraceful scene of unbridled license and military devastation, there is one trait of heroic presence of mind, which in some degree redeems the character of the British soldier. Several thousand infantry slept in the long galleries of an immense convent built round a square ; the...
Seite 570 - All that I can say upon that subject is, that whether I am to command the army or not, or am to quit it, I shall do my best to insure its success; and you may depend upon it that I shall not hurry the operations, or commence them one moment sooner than they ought to be commenced, in order that I may acquire the credit of the success.
Seite 181 - France, prohibiting all trade in any articles the produce or manufacture of his majesty's dominions ; and the merchants of those countries have given countenance and effect to those prohibitions, by accepting from persons styling themselves commercial agents of the enemy, resident at neutral ports, certain...