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The Daily Dispatch: June 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Abolition Intimidation (search)
The Daily Dispatch: June 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of a famous character (search)
The charge of Murat at Eylan.
It is at Eylan that Murat 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 opposed such strength to each other, and a complete victory on either side would have settled the fate of Europe; Bonaparte remained in possession of the field, and that was all; no victory was ever so like a defeat.
The filed of Eylau was covered with snow, and the little ponds that lay scattered over it were frozen sufficiently hard to bear the artillery.
Seventy-one thousand men on one side, and eighty-five thousand on the other, arose from the frozen field on which they had slept the night of February, without tent or covering, to battle for a continent.--Augurea, on the left, was utterly routed in the morning.
Advancing through a snow storm so thick he could not see the enemy, the Russian cannon mowed down his ranks with their de
The Daily Dispatch: June 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Additional Foreign News by the America . (search)