Excerpt from Memoirs of Baron Lejeune, Vol. 1 of 2: Aide-De-Camp to Marshals Berthier, Davout, and Oudinot Ployed by his master in either case. For our purposes I think he had. We have ample knowledge Of what happened in both cases, and we know why it happened but there is at least one famous dramatic scene at Auster litz to which Lejeune has added some artistic touches, quite new to me, and so presented that it would be difficult ever to forget them again. The spontaneous illumination with which Napoleon was received by ...
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Excerpt from Memoirs of Baron Lejeune, Vol. 1 of 2: Aide-De-Camp to Marshals Berthier, Davout, and Oudinot Ployed by his master in either case. For our purposes I think he had. We have ample knowledge Of what happened in both cases, and we know why it happened but there is at least one famous dramatic scene at Auster litz to which Lejeune has added some artistic touches, quite new to me, and so presented that it would be difficult ever to forget them again. The spontaneous illumination with which Napoleon was received by his soldiers when he visited their bivouac on the night before Austerlitz is a well-known historical incident. If, however, any one except Lejeune has recorded that the torches used consisted of the straw on which the men were lying - that, in fact, in order to light Napoleon's way, they deprived themselves both of their beds and of the rough overhead shelters they had constructed-wit has altogether. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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