Word: olm
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...army, to Napoleon. At this point, the Russians lumbered up. Napoleon chased them down the Danube, captured Vienna and carted off 100,000 muskets, 2,000 artillery pieces and a virtually inexhaustible supply of ammunition, while the Russians and a few thousand leftover Austrians escaped northward to Olmütz to wait for reinforcements...
Eventually he was taken captive by the nations allied against France, and imprisoned at Olmütz in Austria. Now began Adrienne's real struggle. The revolutionary regime confiscated most of the family property; her sister, mother and grandmother died under the guillotine. Adrienne herself was saved only by the intervention of U.S. Minister Gouverneur Morris, who warned that her death would anger the U.S. With the help of a later U.S. envoy, James Monroe, Adrienne was finally released from her French prison and promptly set out to join her husband in his Austrian one. She collected...
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