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Updated: July 19, 2025

Such was the fate of the gallant and generous youth, who, by his fiery courage, won the battle of Bertsheim; and who, when his followers, to whom the republicans had so often refused quarter, seemed disposed to retaliate in the hour of victory, threw himself between them and their discomfited countrymen, exclaiming, "They are French they are unfortunate; I place them under the guardianship of your honour."

J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart - The History of Napoleon Buonaparte