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The moral impulse which estimates the attacker is everything. The moral impulse lies in the perception by the enemy of the resolution that animates you. They say that the battle of Amstetten was the only one in which a line actually waited for the shock of another line charging with the bayonets. Even then the Russians gave way before the moral and not before the physical impulse.
Polten, Amstetten, Linz, and Salzburg four stops before the frontier. The man put down his paper and looked at me; he had a big fair moustache and rather shabby clothes.
I did it pretty well I was quite like the man who had got out. I sat in his corner, took up his newspaper, and waited for Amstetten. It seemed a tremendous time before we got there. From behind my paper I could see five or six policemen on the platform, one quite close. He opened the door, looked at me, and walked through the carriage into the corridor.
There had been actions at Lambach, Amstetten, and Melk; but despite the courage and endurance acknowledged even by the enemy with which the Russians fought, the only consequence of these actions was a yet more rapid retreat.
Having taken these wise precautions to protect his right flank, Napoleon, before advancing to meet the Russians, whose advance-guard had already clashed with ours at Amstetten, near to Steyer, wished to protect his left flank from any attack from those Austrians who had taken refuge in Bohemia, under the command of Archduke Ferdinand.
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