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"I have a paper here in which I have argued out the principles on which an attack should be conducted," said another, General Niel, an engineer. "Ah!" said Pélissier, "you gentlemen are very clever I admit your scientific knowledge but when I want your advice I will ask for it."
"Does the French commander-in-chief approve of it, sir?" "General Canrobert does; but I think we have nearly seen the last of him. I expect any day to hear that he has given up the command." "Who will succeed him, sir?" "Pélissier, I believe a very different sort of man, as we shall see."
Mademoiselle Pelissier, who possessed an income of twenty-five thousand francs, and had a house in the Rue Neuve-du-Luxembourg, where she held a salon much frequented by political personalities of the day, was identified by popular gossip as the model of Fedora.
The total caravan of the English and French Commissioners the latter being Colonel Pelissier, a relative of the Marshal numbered ninety-nine horses; and the Turkish Commissioner, being unable to obtain any money from his Government, seized the horses necessary for his journey in a manner that first opened Gordon's eyes to the ways of Pashas.
Kinglake, in his exhaustive History, has shown how this acted adversely on the chances of the assault, because the Russian gunners had really only reserved their fire, and also especially because the Redan, which we had to attack under the original arrangement between Lord Raglan and General Pelissier, had hardly suffered any damage from the bombardment.
It is the old story of trying to govern what the conquerors call "niggers," without attempting to understand the people first. Temper, justice, insight, and conciliation would have done more in four years than martial intolerance and drum tyranny accomplished in forty. In all these years of miserable guerilla warfare, in which such well-known commanders as Bugeaud, Pelissier, Canrobert, St.
Among the commanders who conducted this African war were Marshals Valée, Changarnier, Cavaignac, Canrobert, Bugeaud, St. Arnaud, and Generals Lamoricière, Bosquet, Pelissier. Of these Changarnier was the most distinguished, although, from political reasons, he took no part in the Crimean War.
My holidays after this time were spent with M. and Madame R , in whose society I remember frequently seeing a literary man of the name of Pélissier, a clever writer, a most amusing talker, and an admirable singer of Béranger's songs.
Had he not quitted the army, a brilliant career was before him. People talk a great deal of Pelissier, of Canrobert, of MacMahon, and of others. I say nothing against them; they are good men doubtless at least I hear so; but your father would have eclipsed them all had he taken the trouble. But he didn't take the trouble!
In the meantime Canrobert was succeeded in the command of the French army by Pélissier, a resolute soldier who did not owe his promotion to complicity in the coup d'état.
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