Word: ney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning Napoleon's emissaries argued with that odd Tsar, who was in his most mellow mood. He encouraged them; Napoleon's cause still had a chance. But all precautions were futile, for at eleven-thirty in the morning, when Caulaincourt was having breakfast with Marshal Ney, Ragusa suddenly burst in. stupefied them by jabbering incoherently that he was disgraced. All night long his troops had been going over to the enemy. Betrayed by Ragusa's staff, the soldiers had thought they were going into battle...
...Press that the White Armies under Generalissimo Francisco Franco were now engaged in trying to take Madrid by exactly the same tactics over exactly the same roads and passes as served British General Sir Arthur Wellesley to take Madrid from the Emperor Napoleon's great Marshals Ney, Massena and Soult in the Peninsular War. After that campaign Sir Arthur became the Duke of Wellington...
...grandmother, Mrs. Nicholas Reising, John J. Lehmanowsky's daughter, asserted that Marshal Ney did visit her father, as set forth in Under Two Captains, and from her own lips the story was as follows...
...giving every evidence of being friends long parted who had had no hope of meeting again. They talked most of the night, and not until the gentleman had gone the next day did her father tell certain members of the family that their guest was none other than Marshal Ney. but that the secret must not be revealed to anyone...
...stated previously, grandmother had reached an intelligent age, saw the gentleman herself, and had the word of her father that their guest was in fact Marshal Ney, and it seems to us there can be no doubt about Ney's successful escape to this country, the account of which as related to her father is contained in Under Two Captains...