The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot: Late Lieutenant-general in the French Army, Opseg 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1892 |
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Stranica 37
... of the Esterel we met the colonel of the 1st Hussars , who was returning from the army to the depôt at Le Puy en Velay , with an escort of one officer and several troopers leading broken - down horses . His name was M.
... of the Esterel we met the colonel of the 1st Hussars , who was returning from the army to the depôt at Le Puy en Velay , with an escort of one officer and several troopers leading broken - down horses . His name was M.
Stranica 41
... troopers , who were nearly all born in the provinces on the banks of the Rhine . What was a surprise , however , was the demeanour , the answers , and the swagger- ing manner of my mentor . Later on , indeed , I learnt that my father ...
... troopers , who were nearly all born in the provinces on the banks of the Rhine . What was a surprise , however , was the demeanour , the answers , and the swagger- ing manner of my mentor . Later on , indeed , I learnt that my father ...
Stranica 42
... troopers were bound to get themselves up alike , and as the hussar regiments at that time wore not only a pig- tail but also long love locks , ' locks on the temples , and had their moustaches turned up , everyone belonging to the corps ...
... troopers were bound to get themselves up alike , and as the hussar regiments at that time wore not only a pig- tail but also long love locks , ' locks on the temples , and had their moustaches turned up , everyone belonging to the corps ...
Stranica 53
... trooper as I was and seventeen years old , I resolved to show my comrades that if I had not yet much experience or military talent , I at least possessed pluck . So I resolutely put myself at their head and marched on in what we knew ...
... trooper as I was and seventeen years old , I resolved to show my comrades that if I had not yet much experience or military talent , I at least possessed pluck . So I resolutely put myself at their head and marched on in what we knew ...
Stranica 54
... troopers who had just cocked their carbines , was in such a fright that he swore to tell me all he knew . He was the servant of a convent , and was charged with a letter to some relations of the prior ; he had been ordered if he met the ...
... troopers who had just cocked their carbines , was in such a fright that he swore to tell me all he knew . He was the servant of a convent , and was charged with a letter to some relations of the prior ; he had been ordered if he met the ...
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