Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Kaufer konnen in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1913 edition. Auszug: ...elected deputy during the Restoration, when he became immensely popular with the Opposition party. AUSTRIANS ATTACK EUGENE 201 guide his " son " to victory, gives him the advantage of his prodigious knowledge of tactics, praises him, encourages him, and ...
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Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Kaufer konnen in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1913 edition. Auszug: ...elected deputy during the Restoration, when he became immensely popular with the Opposition party. AUSTRIANS ATTACK EUGENE 201 guide his " son " to victory, gives him the advantage of his prodigious knowledge of tactics, praises him, encourages him, and scolds him for not writing three times a day to lm' "Paris, April 12th, 1809. "My Son--You will have learnt, on reaching Verona or Trent, that the Austrians had begun hostilities, and that you will probably have to make your head-quarters in Friuli. The telegraph only informed me that the Austrians had crossed the Inn and, by so doing, declared war.... Leave your cavalry and about twelve thousand men on the banks of the Isonzo and proceed with the rest of your army to Tarvis. Leave nothing to chance; be careful to avoid the intrenchments which the enemy are sure to have made, so that you do not break your nose against the walls of their redoubts." And now Eugene was to experience his first defeat, and it was a bitter grief and disappointment to him. This defeat must be attributed to two causes, one of which was independent of his will. The first mistake was made by Napoleon when he miscalculated the date of Austria's attack and forbade Eugene to concentrate his troops in Friuli, thus leaving him unprepared for war; the second mistake was made by Eugene, who, counting upon the support of General Lamarque, returned the enemy's attack without waiting for that general, who had been unable to join the army at Sacile owing to the terrible rains which had caused great floods in the north of Italy. How well the Emperor read Eugene's character when he accused him of acting too precipitately! Rash he may have been: rashness in warfare is courage...
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