Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, with a Preliminary View of the French Revolution, Volume 1Cadell, 1835 |
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... Tchitchagoff occupies Minsk . - Perilous si- tuation of Napoleon , ......... . - CHAP . LXII . - Napoleon divides his Army into four Corps , which leave Smolensk on their retreat towards Poland . -Cautious proceedings of Koutousoff ...
... Tchitchagoff occupies Minsk . - Perilous si- tuation of Napoleon , ......... . - CHAP . LXII . - Napoleon divides his Army into four Corps , which leave Smolensk on their retreat towards Poland . -Cautious proceedings of Koutousoff ...
Page 89
... Tchitchagoff.1 For Napoleon to await in cantonments at Smo- lensk , in a wasted country , the consequences of these junctions , which were likely to include the destruction of his two wings , would have been a desperate resolution . It ...
... Tchitchagoff.1 For Napoleon to await in cantonments at Smo- lensk , in a wasted country , the consequences of these junctions , which were likely to include the destruction of his two wings , would have been a desperate resolution . It ...
Page 135
... Tchitchagoff and Tormasoff , which might be augmented to 100,000 men , and make themselves masters of Warsaw and Wilna . the northern extremity of his general line of ope- rations , Macdonald and St Cyr might prove unable to resist ...
... Tchitchagoff and Tormasoff , which might be augmented to 100,000 men , and make themselves masters of Warsaw and Wilna . the northern extremity of his general line of ope- rations , Macdonald and St Cyr might prove unable to resist ...
Page 139
... Tchitchagoff occupies Minsk . - Perilous situation of Na- poleon . It was easy to make Murat himself the active person in breaking off the armistice , a step which the Russian general preferred , lest a formal inti- mation of rupture on ...
... Tchitchagoff occupies Minsk . - Perilous situation of Na- poleon . It was easy to make Murat himself the active person in breaking off the armistice , a step which the Russian general preferred , lest a formal inti- mation of rupture on ...
Page 175
... Tchitchagoff , with 50,000 Russians , whom the peace with the Turks permitted to leave Moldavia , advanced upon Volhynia , with the purpose of co- operating with Tormasoff and Ertell ; and , finally , of acting in combination with ...
... Tchitchagoff , with 50,000 Russians , whom the peace with the Turks permitted to leave Moldavia , advanced upon Volhynia , with the purpose of co- operating with Tormasoff and Ertell ; and , finally , of acting in combination with ...
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