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'A courier has just brought Madame Bonaparte a line from the First Consul. The campaign has opened with a victory at Montebello. "The three ministers exchanged looks. "'Was it a general engagement? asked Carnot. "'No, a fight, in which Lannes has covered himself with glory. The affair was bloody.
There is a house in that direction, and it is occupied by the Prince of Auersperg, one of the German generals." He pointed where the château lay, and Bougainville uttered a shout: "Ah!" "He holds there a prisoner, Mademoiselle Julie Lannes, the sister of the great Philip Lannes, the aviator; and other Frenchwomen." "Ah!" said Bougainville again. "You will help rescue them, will you not?"
A fierce shout arose and John himself quivered with feeling. It was better, far better than he had hoped. He realized now that his courage before had been the courage of despair. Lannes and he, as a last resort, had put faith in signs and omens, because there was nothing else to bear them up. "Is it true? Is it true beyond doubt! You've really seen it with your own eyes?" he exclaimed.
It was the stupor of unconsciousness. Now your sleep will be easy and natural." "Very well," said John, who had really begun to feel a little weary, "I'll go to sleep, since, in a way, you order it, but if Mademoiselle Julie Lannes should happen to pass my cot again, will you kindly wake me up?"
At Taragona I rejoined Lannes' advance guard: the general in command had my wound dressed, and gave me a horse and an escort of two hussars. I reached Tudela at midnight, and was at once received by the marshal, who, though ill himself, seemed much touched by my misfortune.
Only a few men escaped from Memmingen into Tyrol: the division, which, if properly supported, might have cut a way through to Nördlingen three days earlier, was now overwhelmed by the troops of Murat and Lannes; out of 13,000 foot-soldiers very few escaped. Most of the horsemen succeeded in joining the Archduke Ferdinand, on whose track Murat now flung himself with untiring energy.
The narrow valley of the Dora Baltea, by which alone they could advance, was wellnigh blocked by the fort of Bard, which was firmly held by a small Austrian garrison and defied all the efforts of Lannes and Berthier. This was the news that met the First Consul during his ascent, and again at the Hospice.
From the day of our entry into Milan the advance of the army had not slackened; General Murat had passed the Po, and taken possession of Piacenza; and General Lannes, still pushing forward with his brave advance guard, had fought a bloody battle at Montebello, a name which he afterwards rendered illustrious by bearing it.
"You jest with us. You recall her hair and eyes." John shook his head impressively. "The French prisoner, the one they call a spy, Mademoiselle Lannes, is the most beautiful woman I've ever seen," said blond Olga, "but no one could look at her without remembering the color of her hair and eyes, such a marvelous gold and such a deep, dark blue."
Since a cavalry horse wasn't able to break it, is the American skull thicker than the skulls of other people?" "A lot of you Europeans don't seem to think we're civilized." "But when you fight for us we do. Isn't that so, Mademoiselle Lannes?" "I think it is." "War is a curious thing. While it drives people apart it also brings them together.
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