Napoleon and His Marshals, Volumen1Baker and Scribner, 1847 - 647 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 45
Página 90
... river , in the midst of a murderous fire , or force such a wing of the army , and he would do it , if it was to be done . His soldiers loved him with devotion , and would follow him into any danger . His activity and rapidity of motion ...
... river , in the midst of a murderous fire , or force such a wing of the army , and he would do it , if it was to be done . His soldiers loved him with devotion , and would follow him into any danger . His activity and rapidity of motion ...
Página 145
... river . Here the Austrian General , M. de Kray , was posted , with his lines reaching almost from Constance to Stras- burg - ready to dispute the passage of the Rhine with the French . St. Cyr had served under Moreau a long time , and ...
... river . Here the Austrian General , M. de Kray , was posted , with his lines reaching almost from Constance to Stras- burg - ready to dispute the passage of the Rhine with the French . St. Cyr had served under Moreau a long time , and ...
Página 146
... on the shores of the Danube , in a sort of half circle , made by the bend of the river ; so that there was no room to manœuvre , while consternation was visible in their ranks . St. Cyr , though cool and steady , saw at once.
... on the shores of the Danube , in a sort of half circle , made by the bend of the river ; so that there was no room to manœuvre , while consternation was visible in their ranks . St. Cyr , though cool and steady , saw at once.
Página 147
... river , and waited anxiously the order to advance . In the mean time he brought for- ward some of his guns , and trained them on the close packed troops of the enemy . Finding , however , that his cannonading failed to draw the ...
... river , and waited anxiously the order to advance . In the mean time he brought for- ward some of his guns , and trained them on the close packed troops of the enemy . Finding , however , that his cannonading failed to draw the ...
Página 148
... river Riess - crossed by a single bridge -- and a marsh , lay between the village and those heights on which nearly sixty thousand men were drawn up in order of battle . It was a bold attempt to attack with a little over twenty thousand ...
... river Riess - crossed by a single bridge -- and a marsh , lay between the village and those heights on which nearly sixty thousand men were drawn up in order of battle . It was a bold attempt to attack with a little over twenty thousand ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
allied amid Arcola army artillery Auerstadt Augereau Austrians batteries battle BATTLE OF ARCOLA BATTLE OF ASPERN BATTLE OF AUERSTADT BATTLE OF CASTIGLIONE battle of Eylau battle of Krasnoi battle of Marengo battle-field bayonets Berthier Bonaparte Bourbon brave campaign cannon cavalry centre character charge columns combat command commenced compelled corps cuirassiers Danube Davoust death desperate division Elba Emperor Empire enemy England English Europe Eylau fell field fierce fight fire firm force fought France French genius Guard hands head heights honour horse hour hundred infantry Italy King Lannes length Macdonald Marshal martial music Massena ment midst mighty military Moncey Moreau morning Mortier Murat Napoleon never night numbers onset Paris passed peace plain ranks rapid retreat Revolution roar rolled rushed Russian scene seemed sent shouts smoke soldiers soon Soult stood storm struggle swept thousand throne thunder tion troops valour victory wounded
Pasajes populares
Página 291 - Nothing could stop that astonishing infantry. No sudden burst of undisciplined valour, no nervous enthusiasm, weakened the stability of their order ; their flashing eyes were bent on the dark columns in their front ; their measured...
Página 291 - In vain did Soult, by voice and gesture, animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes, while the horsemen hovering on the Hank threatened to charge the advancing line.
Página 257 - It was the spectacle of a sea and billows of fire, a sky and clouds of flame; mountains of red rolling...
Página 291 - ... like a loosened cliff went headlong down the steep ; the rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and eighteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand unconquerable British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill.
Página 256 - When night again descended on the city, it presented a spectacle the like of which was never seen before, and which baffles all description. The streets were streets of fire, the heavens a canopy of fire, and the entire body of the city a mass of fire, fed by a hurricane that whirled the blazing fragments in a constant stream through the air.
Página 252 - Murat went forward and entered the gates with his splendid cavalry; but as he passed through the streets, he was struck by the solitude that surrounded him. Nothing was heard but the heavy tramp of his squadrons as he passed along, for a deserted and abandoned city was the meager prize for which such unparalleled efforts had been made.
Página 253 - ... every exertion, when at daylight Napoleon hastened to him. Affecting to disbelieve the reports that the inhabitants were firing their own city, he put more rigid commands on Mortier to keep the soldiers from the work of destruction. The marshal simply pointed to some iron-covered houses...
Página 257 - Napoleon stood and gazed on this scene in silent awe. Though nearly three miles distant, the windows and walls of his apartment were so hot that he could scarcely bear his hand against them. Said he, years...
Página 254 - The wind had increased to a perfect hurricane, and shifted from quarter to quarter as if on purpose to swell the sea of fire and extinguish the last hope. The fire was approaching the Kremlin, and already the roar of the flames, and...
Página 255 - ... struggled against an enemy that no boldness could awe or courage overcome. Those brave troops had heard the tramp of thousands of cavalry sweeping to battle without fear; but now they stood in still terror before' the march of the conflagration, under whose burning footsteps was heard the incessant crash of falling houses and palaces and churches. The continuous roar of the raging hurricane, mingled with that of the flames, was more terrible than the thunder of artillery; and before this new...