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The Daily Dispatch: June 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
The charge of Murat at Eylan. It is at Eylan that Murat always appears in his most terrible aspect. This battle, foughMurat always appears in his most terrible aspect. This battle, fought in mid-winter, in 1807, was the most important and bloody one that had then occurred. France and Russia had never before o the battle, but there was no other resource left him. Murat sustained his high reputation on this occasion, and proved t. Bonaparte and the Empire trembled in the balance, while Murat prepared to lead down his cavalry to save them. Seventy sq on a plunging trot, pressing hard after the white plume of Murat, that streamed through the snow storm far in front a smile together; the Russian reserve were ordered up, and on these Murat fell with his fierce horsemen, crushing and trampling them and rent field. It was during this strange fight that Murat was seen to perform one of those desperate deeds for which on them, and scattered them as if a hurricane had swept by. Murat was a thunderbolt on that day, and the deeds that were wrou