frence

Updated: May 14, 2025

A thousand cannon vomited death all day. Under the smoke a quarter of a million of men struggled like tigers. At nightfall the French had the field. The defeated Russians hung sullenly around the arena where they had left more than 40,000 of their dead and wounded. The Frence losses were almost equally appalling. "Sire," said Marshal Ney, "we would better withdraw and reform."

- Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century: Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World