This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 Excerpt: ...eight hundred, continued the great Napoleon, are brave men, already too much the victims of despotic power. We will not then, for the sake of vengeance against a hundred guilty wretches, involve eight thousand and nine hundred innocent persons in utter ruin. And should we consent to the destruction of the villages, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 Excerpt: ...eight hundred, continued the great Napoleon, are brave men, already too much the victims of despotic power. We will not then, for the sake of vengeance against a hundred guilty wretches, involve eight thousand and nine hundred innocent persons in utter ruin. And should we consent to the destruction of the villages, would there not be two thousand helpless peasants left without resource or shelter? " In conformity with these gracious sentiments, the Emperor was contented with the annihilation of the citadel, and other military buildings; and while the work of destruction proceeded, he forbade that the individuals should be harmed who had already suffered so severely from the consequences of war." How gladly would humanity trace any affinity with its own nature, in the character of even the most cruel tyrant. It is grateful te the heart that wishes the good of every fellow creature, to see the germs of virtue in some transaction of the being whose ordinary actions are ever demonstrative of his delight in crime. So would we hail any appearance of mercy in the warfare of the man who, for so many years, has held Europe steeped in blood. But the licensed scene of ravage so lately exhibited in the capital of the Tzars, unequivocally proves that Napoleon spared the distant villages and castles around Moscow, because they were out of the reach of his hands. Those which were in its immediate vicinity experienced all the horrors of fire and sword. Every preparation having been rapidly made to put the army in motion, Buonaparte in person, with a tone of hilarity, informed his troops, that he was conducting them to winter quarters. " Je veux vous conduire dans vos quartiers-d'hiver, (said he) si je rencontre les Russes dans mon chemin, je les battrai. Sin...
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