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General Eble had just set fire to the bridge on the other side; but in spite of all the warnings given to those who rushed towards the chance of salvation, not one among them could or would draw back.
A number of them died, including Generals Éblé and Lariboisière, the artillery commanders. In spite of the adequate reception given to us, the Prussians remembered their defeat at Jena, and the way in which Napoleon had treated them in 1807 when he seized part of their kingdom. Secretly they hated us and would have disarmed and captured us at the first signal from their King.
The cannonade and fusillade soon became extremely violent, and Napoleon, on horseback, incessantly riding from one point to another, assumed that Oudinot resisted Tchitchakoff while Eble continued to care for the bridges, and that Victor, who was fighting Wittgenstein, was not thrown into the icy floods of the Beresina together with the masses which had not yet crossed.
General Eble survived his act of bravery only three weeks; he died in Koenigsberg on the 21st. day of December, 1812. This is an incomplete sketch of the immortal event of the Beresina, full of psychological interest and therefore fit to be inserted in the medical history of Napoleon's campaign in Russia.
You'll be welcome," and he went on slicing off the bark, which he gave as a sort of provender to his horse. "I am looking for your commander to tell him, from General Eble, to make for Zembin. You'll have barely enough time to get through that crowd of men below. I am going presently to set fire to their camp and force them to march." "You warm me up almost! That news makes me perspire.
The moment had arrived when the great engineer, the venerable General Eble, was to crown his career by an immortal service. He had saved six cases containing tools, nails, clamps, and all kinds of iron pieces needed for the construction of trestle bridges.
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