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Neither could General Kellerman, from the point where he was stationed, perceive General Desaix's division; it is even probable that he was not aware of the arrival of that General, who had only joined the army two days before.
On my return to Paris I meet Bonaparte His interview with Josephine Bonaparte's marriage, and departure from Paris ten days after Portrait and character of Josephine Bonaparte's dislike of national property Letter to Josephine Letter of General Colli, and Bonaparte's reply Bonaparte refuses to serve with Kellerman Marmont's letters Bonaparte's order to me to join the army My departure from Sens for Italy Insurrection of the Venetian States.
Bernard Arrival at the convent Refreshments distributed to the soldiers Mont Albaredo Artillery dismounted The fort of Bard Fortunate temerity Bonaparte and Melas The spy Bonaparte's opinion of M. Necker Capitulation of Genoa Intercepted despatch Lannes at Montebello Boudet succeeded by Desaix Coolness of the First Consul to M. Collot Conversation and recollections The battle of Marengo General Kellerman Supper sent from the Convent del Bosco Particulars respecting the death of Desaix The Prince of Lichtenstein Return to Milan Savary and Rapp.
I will add to the above a few observations. "From the position which he occupied General Desaix could not see General Kellerman; he had even desired me to request the First Consul to afford him the support of some cavalry.
Kellerman, who was a man of powerful physique, had succeeded in reaching a beche-de-mer station on the coast, where for six or eight months he worked steadily and made a little money. From there he went to a newly-discovered alluvial goldfield north of Cooktown with a prospecting party, who all spoke well of him as "a plucky, energetic fellow, and a good mate."
When Wilhelm seated himself on his knee, and pressed his cheek to his, Otto felt his heart beat as in fever; it sent a stream of fire through his blood: he thrust him away, but the fair one continued to overwhelm him with caresses. There now commenced, in a so-called Krähwinkel theatre, the comedy, in which were given the then popular witticisms of Kellerman.
He was crushed, trampled to death! I returned and told my general what I had seen, and he instantly abandoned Kellerman, and resumed his original line of march. "Keeping straight across the country over fields and the rough thickets, we at last arrived at the Bois de Bossu, where we halted. My General said to me, 'Go to the farm of Quatre Bras and announce that we are here.
The day after his arrival he promulgated a great number of decrees, and afterwards allotted the rewards to his soldiers. He appointed Kellerman General of division which, on every principle of justice, he ought to have done on the field of battle. He distributed sabres of honour, with the following inscription, highly complimentary to himself:
The First Consul stopped at Turin for some hours, and inspected the citadel, which had bean surrendered to us in pursuance of the capitulation of Alessandria. In passing over Mont Cenis we observed the carriage of Madame Kellerman, who was going to meet her husband.
But instead of despairing at the failure of his plans, and falling back into the interior, to be completely severed from Kellerman's army, to be hunted as a fugitive under the walls of Paris by the victorious Germans, and to lose all chance of ever rallying his dispirited troops, he resolved to cling to the difficult country in which the armies still were grouped, to force a junction with Kellerman, and so to place himself at the head of a force, which the invaders would not dare to disregard, and by which he might drag them back from the advance on Paris, which he had not been able to bar.
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