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Updated: May 28, 2025
These lighter German cruisers had left the line of battle and had turned southward at just about the time that the action between the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and Inflexible and Invincible began. They started off with the Dresden at the foremost point of a triangle and with the other two at the two remaining points.
By nine in the morning the German ships were drawn out in single file, running parallel with the shore in a northeasterly direction. At the head of the line was the Gneisenau, followed by the Dresden, Scharnhorst, Nürnberg, and Leipzig, in that order.
"And when the city of Breslau reads this noble and affecting plea for your wounded," said Gneisenau, "they will be nursed in the most careful manner, and our able-bodied soldiers will receive wagon- loads of food and refreshments.
He communicated it to the chancellor of state at one of the conferences held every evening at Breslau, at Hardenberg's rooms, in presence of Gneisenau, Scharnhorst, Thile, and a few others. Hardenberg and all the rest approved it, and so did the king, when it was laid before him on the following day. A pause ensued when Leonora ceased reading.
But Gneisenau cannot have been blind to the advantages of a reunion with Wellington, which a northerly march would open out.
"I have conceived every thing so clearly and well the whole plan of the campaign was already settled in my mind! Come, Gneisenau, let me show you all on the map, and then you will have to admit that Napoleon would be annihilated if we could carry this plan into execution. Come, look at the map!" Gneisenau stood by the side of the field-marshal, and bent over the map lying on the table.
"Yes, general. Let us begin the new year with a great deed, that we may end it with one." "But will that be possible, field-marshal? Can all our troops be prepared at so short a notice?" "That is your task, Gneisenau; ideas are your province, execution is mine.
Gneisenau took the pen, and wrote; Blucher the glass, and drank. Half an hour passed in silence; Gneisenau then laid down his pen, for he had finished the instructions; and Blucher pushed the glass aside, for the bottle was empty. "I beg leave now to read the instructions to your excellency," said Gneisenau. "No," said Blucher, "not now!
"Yes, your excellency," exclaimed Gneisenau, laughing, "it is still there." "Well, then, England posts her ships there; and in the south, on the Pyrenees, stand the Spaniards, who have sworn to revenge themselves on Bonaparte. Now we advance all at the same time into France.
Oh spirits not only of Berthier and of Gneisenau, but of the most insignificant chiefs of staffs, admire your caricature at the head of the army commanded by this freshly-backed Napoleon! A foreign diplomat was in McClellan's tent before Yorktown, on the eve of the day when the rebels wholly evacuated it.
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