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共 48 段- My grandmother had had seven brothers, all of whom, as was u
- The next morning, the drum beat reveille, making a horrible
- To his present aide-de-camp, Captain Gault, my father now ad
- Now to return to the elder. He arrived at my father's quarte
- Having gathered this information, we set off once more, but
- However, our attack on the Austrian battery and its outcome
- Providence came once more to our aid. Bastide had been born
- My mother had a rather pretty country house at Carriere, nea
- On this occasion I went through Spain on horseback with my
- Everything was ready for the explosion when Bernadotte, lack
- Each of us wore the uniform of his regiment, so that a gathe
- It was now the end of 1792; the French Revolution was spread
- There was a story current at the time which related that, af
- The draught-horses for the guns and the supply wagons had be
- Being now the master of Bavaria, and rid of the presence of
- I was scarcely alone when I realised the enormity of my erro
- Of all the units of the Imperial Guard, the regiment of Moun
- In accepting from Napoleon the gift of the electorate of Han
- On the morning of October 14th, a thick mist covered the
- I must here tell you something remarkable, which shows how
- While the troops who had been engaged at Golymin were restin
- This was before the great charge made by Murat and his caval
- The Emperor was still at Eylau: the various corps marching
- You may imagine the result of this! ...Immediately the court
- Influenced by his taste for arms, Massena left his wife and
- At the beginning of 1812, I was in Paris, with my young wife
- While there was a succession of entertainments at Dresden,
- My regiment, which had made a successful charge at the entra
- I immediately set fire to a huge haystack and to several bar
- Night was falling when the outposts which had been left to w
- Let us now return to the banks of the Svolna, which the Fren
- The meadow was large enough to hold two regiments in battle
- The Poles, usually so courageous, particularly those from th
- Without being cast down by this unforeseen obstacle the Mars
- When this event became generally known throughout the army,
- Oudinot's forces surrounded the town on three sides, the fou
- I was re-forming the ranks of my regiment, which had taken p
- Several days before our arrival at Wilna, the intense cold h
- In reply to this it is claimed that Napoleon weakened his ar
- The squadrons which I had recently added to the regiment, br
- The worried Marshal Saint-Cyr expected to be attacked on the
- While our Chasseurs were pursuing them, an elderly enemy col
- The exact details of the battle of Leipzig will never be kno
- This force led by Bernadotte, following the left bank of the
- To explain this catastrophe, it was said later that some Pru
- My position, as commander of the advance-guard, was now very
- All the other fortresses beyond the Rhine, which the Emperor
- A large band of these imitation Cossacks, having crossed the