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General Oudinot, who was present, informed Davoust, and Donnadieu, imprisoned in the Temple, made revelations. Measures were at once taken to scatter the conspirators, who were all sent away more or less farther off; some were arrested and others exiled, among them General Mounier, who had commanded one of Desaix's brigades at Marengo.
"And the eight pieces I have with me," said Desaix. "Eighteen pieces!" said Marmont; "that is all I need." An aide-de-camp was sent to hasten the arrival of Desaix's guns. His troops were advancing rapidly, and were scarcely half a mile from the field of battle.
Neither could General Kellerman, from the point where he was stationed, perceive General Desaix's division; it is even probable that he was not aware of the arrival of that General, who had only joined the army two days before.
Who could have imagined that Desaix's little corps, together with the few heavy cavalry commanded by General Kellerman, would, about five o'clock, have changed the fortune of the day? It cannot be denied that it was the instantaneous inspiration of Kellerman that converted a defeat into a victory, and decided the battle of Marengo.
The mirage Skirmishes with the Arabs Mistake of General Desaix's division Wretchedness of a rich sheik Combat beneath the General's window The flotilla on the Nile Its distress and danger The battle of Chebreisse Defeat of the Mamelukes Bonaparte's reception of me Letter to Louis Bonaparte Success of the French army Triumphal entrance into Cairo Civil and military organisation of Cairo Bonaparte's letter to his brother Joseph Plan of colonisation.
Yet the fact is, that the Guard took no part in the charge of Kellerman, who could assemble only 500 heavy cavalry; and with this handful of brave men he cut in two the Austrian column, which had overwhelmed Desaix's division, and had made 6000 prisoners. The Guard did not charge at Marengo until nightfall.
It was speedily ascertained that the little advanced guard of the headquarters had not heard the "Qui vive?" of Desaix's advanced posts. On reaching Damanhour our headquarters were established at the residence of a sheik. The house had been new whitened, and looked well enough outside, but the interior was inconceivably wretched.
Who could have imagined that Desaix's little corps, together with the few heavy cavalry commanded by General Kellerman, would, about five o'clock, have changed the fortune of the day? It cannot be denied that it was the instantaneous inspiration of Kellerman that converted a defeat into a victory, and decided the battle of Marengo.
The mirage Skirmishes with the Arabs Mistake of General Desaix's division Wretchedness of a rich sheik Combat beneath the General's window The flotilla on the Nile Its distress and danger The battle of Chebreisse Defeat of the Mamelukes Bonaparte's reception of me Letter to Louis Bonaparte Success of the French army Triumphal entrance into Cairo Civil and military organisation of Cairo Bonaparte's letter to his brother Joseph Plan of colonisation.
Where, for instance, would the Empire of Napoleon have been, if Ney and Lannes had never sported such a thing as a coat-of-arms, and had only written their simple names on their shields, after the fashion of Desaix's scutcheon yonder? the bold Republican who led the crowning charge at Marengo, and sent the best blood of the Holy Roman Empire to the right-about, before the wretched misbegotten imperial heraldry was born, that was to prove so disastrous to the father of it.
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