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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... Quarters - Progress of the Campaign in Silesia - The Russians re- sume the offensive and attack the French cantonments - Rapid concentration of his Forces by Napoleon - Retreat of the Russians - Combats of Lansberg and Leibstadt- Great ...
... Quarters - Progress of the Campaign in Silesia - The Russians re- sume the offensive and attack the French cantonments - Rapid concentration of his Forces by Napoleon - Retreat of the Russians - Combats of Lansberg and Leibstadt- Great ...
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... quarters - The Russians also go into Can- tonments - Results of the winter campaign , and impression which it produces in Europe - Positions of the French army in its winter quarters - Napoleon's measures to provide food and secure his ...
... quarters - The Russians also go into Can- tonments - Results of the winter campaign , and impression which it produces in Europe - Positions of the French army in its winter quarters - Napoleon's measures to provide food and secure his ...
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... quarters of the French at Warsaw - Enthusiastic reception which they there experienced from the Polish Women - Kamenskoi goes mad - Benningsen assumes the command of the Russian army , and advances against Bernadotte - His rapid march ...
... quarters of the French at Warsaw - Enthusiastic reception which they there experienced from the Polish Women - Kamenskoi goes mad - Benningsen assumes the command of the Russian army , and advances against Bernadotte - His rapid march ...
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... quarters of the two armies.1 No sooner did Napoleon hear of this forward movement of the Russians , than he broke up from his quarters at Posen , and arrived at Warsaw two days afterwards . No words can do justice to the Napoleon ...
... quarters of the two armies.1 No sooner did Napoleon hear of this forward movement of the Russians , than he broke up from his quarters at Posen , and arrived at Warsaw two days afterwards . No words can do justice to the Napoleon ...
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... quarters ; the peasantry every where assembled in the cities , de- 1806 . manding arms ; the national dress was ... quarter of its former inhabitants 92. p . to maintain the struggle against its numerous and de Saxe , formidable enemies ...
... quarters ; the peasantry every where assembled in the cities , de- 1806 . manding arms ; the national dress was ... quarter of its former inhabitants 92. p . to maintain the struggle against its numerous and de Saxe , formidable enemies ...
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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...