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. 1921 Excerpt: ... the order for Soult to attack, and his force was soon in rapid motion towards the plateau of Pratzen. The other marshals, Murat, Lannes, and Bernadotte, galloped down from bivouac hill to head their respective corps. Napoleon had been remarkably accurate in his timing. At this moment an allied column, accompanied by ...
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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. 1921 Excerpt: ... the order for Soult to attack, and his force was soon in rapid motion towards the plateau of Pratzen. The other marshals, Murat, Lannes, and Bernadotte, galloped down from bivouac hill to head their respective corps. Napoleon had been remarkably accurate in his timing. At this moment an allied column, accompanied by headquarters, the Czar and Kutusov in person, was climbing the opposite side of the plateau. This force was marching in route order, thinking that the French were yet far distant. On reaching the brow of the plateau the Russian commander was astonished beyond measure to see the French about to assault the hill with a force far outnumbering his own. Realizing his danger, Kutusov made a brave resistance, but was soon driven back down the hill. While the possession of Pratzen was being contested, Lannes, Murat and Bernadotte were delivering a strong attack on the left and gaining ground steadily. Here there was a sharp fight between the French cavalry under Murat and the Imperial Russian Guards, commanded by Grand Duke Constantine. To put an end to this conflict, Napoleon ordered in Bessieres with the cavalry of the Imperial Guard, and these superb squadrons easily rode down the Russian cavalry. Bernadotte and Lannes again advanced, and by eleven o'clock the whole Russian right was in full retreat on Austerlitz. In the meantime, far away to the south, the allied left was being held in check by the superb work of the French right under Davout. A huge gap of three miles lay between the two allied wings, where Soult was driving back the weak allied centre. As an exhibition of grand-tactics Austerlitz will ever remain a model. Before noon Soult was in full possession of the Pratzen; the allied army had been cut in two, and their left, fighting on the ...
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Very Good. 8vo. xvi, 390 pages, portrait frontis with tissue-guard, b/w plates, maps, appendix: The Bonapartes, Marshals of the Empire, Titles conferred by Napoleon, chronology, bibliography, index. A plate has been removed from the front flyleaf taking a little of the page surface with it. Fore-edge uncut. Upper edge gilt. Decorative green cloth boards, gilt. Written one hundred years after Napoleon's death at St Helena, the author endeavours in this impartial estimate to depict Napoleon as he was.