...charge the baggage-wagons with cavalry ! This was how things had gone at Lodi, at Marengo, at Arcóla, at Jena, at Austerlitz, at Wagram. To-day something...in victory, though all his forces had been engaged. Pie knew that it was a drawn game, and that even now the smallest turn of fortune might, at this critical...

...gloomy; each man avoided catching his neighbor's eye: and Napoleon himself knew better than any one else what was the meaning of a struggle that had lasted...him and his army in ruin. As he thought over this weird campaign in Russia, — in which, during two months' fighting, not a battle had been won, not...

...gloomy; each man avoided catching his neighbor's eye: and Napoleon himself knew better than any one else what was the meaning of a struggle that had lasted...him and his army in ruin. As he thought over this weird campaign in Russia, — in which, during two months' fighting, not a battle had been won, not...

...gloomy; each man avoided catching his neighbor's eye: and Napoleon himself knew better than any one else what was the meaning of a struggle that had lasted eight hours, .and had not yet re-olted in victory, though all his forces had been engaged. He knew that it was a drawn game, and...