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Shut up in Maxen, and too weak to force its way through the enemy, the whole corps was taken prisoner.
This of the Two Capuchins, the last consummation of collapse in man, is what Voltaire cannot forget, but crows over with his shrillest mockery; and seldom mentions Maupertuis without that last touch to his life-drama. On the very day of Maxen, Tuesday, November 20th, the grand French Invasion found its terminus, not on the shores of Britain, but of Brittany, to its surprise.
And with him also were two and thirty crowned kings, that were his vassals; not for the delight of hunting went the emperor with them, but to put himself on equal terms with those kings. And the sun was high in the sky over their heads, and the heat was great. And sleep came upon Maxen Wledig.
To sum up: the causes of Vandamme's disaster were, firstly, his rapid rush into Bohemia in quest of the Marshal's baton which was to be his guerdon of victory: secondly, the divergence of St. Cyr westward in pursuance of Napoleon's order of the 29th to pursue the enemy towards Maxen: thirdly, the neglect of St.
The new Platonists would scarcely deserve a place in the history of science, but in that of the church the mention of them will very frequently occur. Part I. Troubles After The Abdication Of Diocletian. Death Of Constantius. Elevation Of Constantine And Maxen Tius. Six Emperors At The Same Time. Death Of Maximian And Galerius. Victories Of Constantine Over Maxentius And Licinus.
In this triangular way stands Finck at the topmost heights of the country, "Maxen highest, but Hausdorf only a little lower," and has not thought of disputing the climb upwards. Too literal an eye to his orders: alas, he was not himself king, but only king's deputy!
Among his own people there is gloom or censure; hard commentaries on Maxen: "So self-willed, high, and deaf to counsel from Prince Henri!" Henri himself, they say, is sullen; threatening, as he often does, to resign "for want of health;" and as he quite did, for a while, in the end of this Campaign, or interval between this and next.
It was in the Village of Krogis, about six miles forward, on the Meissen-Freyberg road, a mile or two on from Korbitz, and directly after the fierce little tussle in that Village, that Friedrich, his blood still up, gave the Order for Maxen, which proved so unlucky to him.
Finck had no sooner taken post on the hill near the village of Maxen, than the Austrian general sent officers to reconnoitre his situation, and immediately resolved to attack him with the corps de reserve, under the baron de Sincere, which was encamped in the neighbourhood of Dippodeswalda.
And that encamping place is called Cadeir Maxen, even to this day. And because that he built the castle with a myriad of men, he called it Caervyrddin. Then Helen bethought her to make high roads from one castle to another throughout the Island of Britain. And the roads were made.
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