The Pennant family, 第 3 卷

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Hurst and Blackett, 1876
 

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第 289 頁 - L in 1804,' and, having distinguished himself in the Grand Army, retired from military life in 1833, and survived to witness the war of 1870, and the outbreak of the Commune of 1871. The personal career of M. de Gonneville, as we see it in his modest account of himself, presents a number of points of interest — for he was an officer of no ordinary merit — intelligent, vigilant, and with great presence of mind.
第 289 頁 - The work contains some interesting details on more than one campaign of the Grand Army which have not, we believe, been disclosed before ; and it adds to our knowledge respecting the struggle in Poland and Prussia in 1807, and several passages of the Peninsular War. It brings us, also, within the presence of Napoleon L, and some of the chiefs who upheld the fortunes of the First Empire ; and its anecdotes about that extraordinary man are evidently genuine and very characteristic. It introduces us...

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