Word: napoleons
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...improvisation after another. He wrote with prodigious energy. First came trios, quartets, sonatas.* The first symphony was criticized for what then seemed to be an excessive use of brasses and timpani. Drums were pounding in ears already growing deaf when, at 34, Beethoven wrote the Third, the Eroica which Napoleon inspired...
...WITH NAPOLEON IN RUSSIA-General de Caulaincourt-Morrow...
...Picardy in 1773, became a soldier at the age of 14, a brevetted second lieutenant at 15, a member of the National Guard during the French Revolution, was jailed as an aristocrat at 19. In the turbulent years that followed, when military careers fell to young men. he became Napoleon's aide-de-camp, was twice wounded, had seen 15 years of service at the age of 29. Two scandals darkened his life. He was unjustly suspected of responsibility for the murder of the Duke of Enghien, "one of the few instances of individual terrorism that Napoleon appears...
...will receive the "Palmes Academiques," which was originally created on March 17, 1808, by Imperial Decree of Napoleon I. Article IV of the decree roads...
...only real victory of his enemies was the result of an Austrian order incorrectly dated. The methodical Austrian commander, thus instructed to arrive at Montelegino the day after the battle, and the day after he was needed, followed his bungled orders to the letter. Napoleon had already taken the stronghold. The main Austrian army had retreated. At this point the small Austrian detachment, running 24 hours behind schedule, marched in quietly, as astonished as the French, who fled in disorder. That was a maneuver so unexpected that even Napoleon could not have conceived it. It suggested that in warfare...