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Title: A life of Napoleon Boneparte:
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814
Publisher: New York, McClure, Phillips & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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mont called it. It was,as Napoleon said, a victory won by legs, instead of by arms.The great fatigue and the forced marches which the armyhad undergone had gained them sixty thousand prisoners,one hundred and twenty guns, ninety colors, more thanthirty generals, at a cost of but fifteen hundred men, two-thirds of them but slightly wounded. But there was no rest for the army. Before the middleof November it had so surrounded Vienna that the emperorand his court had fled to Briinn, seventy or eighty milesnorth of Vienna, to meet the Russians, who, under Alex-ander I., were coming fro^ Berlin. Thither Napoleonfollowed them, but the Austrians retreated eastward, join-ing the Russians at Olmiitz. The combined force of theallies was now some ninety thousand men. They had astrong reserve, and it looked as if the Prussian army wasabout to join them. Napoleon at Briinn had only someseventy or eighty thousand men, and was in the heart ofthe enemys country. Alexander, flattered by his aides, and
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NAPOLEON, 1805. Engraved in 1812 by Massard, after Bouillon. 166 CAMPAIGN OF 1805 167 confident that he was able to defeat the French, resolvedto leave his strong position at Olmiitz and seek battle withNapoleon. The position the French occupied can be understood ifone draws a rough diagram of a right-angled triangle,Briinn being at the right angle formed by two roads, onerunning south to Vienna, by which Napoleon had come,and the other running eastward to Olmiitz. The hypot-enuse of this angle, running from northeast to southwest, isformed by Napoleons army. When the allies decided to leave Olmiitz their plan wasto march southwestward, in face of Napoleons line, get be-tween him and Vienna, and thus cut off what they supposedwas his base of supplies (in this they were mistaken, forNapoleon had, unknown to them, changed his base fromVienna to Bohemia), separate him from his Itahan army, anddrive him, routed, into Bohemia. On the 27th of November the allies advanced, and theirfirst enc

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