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...armies in non-German Europe. Neither Robert E. Lee nor any other Southern leader was charged with war crimes (although Jefferson Davis was confined in a fort for two years). After Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington, the real master of "liberated" France, was ordered to arrest Napoleonic Marshal Soult; the Duke asked him to dinner. Talleyrand, a busy Napoleonic executive, became the Bourbon King's loyal minister...
...kingdoms and principalities* all over the Continent-but always as mouthpieces of the supreme "N." "Your letters," Napoleon tells his brother Louis, King of Holland, "are always talking of obedience and of respect; but [these] consist in not going so fast in such important matters without my advice." Marshal Soult, Duke of Dalmatia, is asked: "How could a man of your ability have supposed that I should ever allow you to exercise any authority not derived from me? Your action shows . . . a failure to realize my character...
Although Munro has not committed himself to a starting team, he has a pretty solid group in yesterday's scrimmage unit: Dick Bezansan, Hans Estin, and Lew Soult at attack; Willie Davis, Ed Thayer, and Dave Waring at midfield; Captain Bob Forsyth, Dick Hansen, and Don Page at defense; and Algy Allen in the goal...
...winter of 1808-09, hearing that part of Napoleon's forces under General Soult were isolated in the north of Spain, Sir John Moore, though shy of men & materiel, set out through rugged country to cut Soult off. When Napoleon followed him, with his main Army, Sir John raced for the sea at Corufia. His Spanish allies failed him. French cavalry overtook him and, when his transports were two days late, so did Soult (with 20,000 men and 40 cannon to Sir John's 15,000 men, nine cannon). A cannon ball got brave, reckless Sir John...
...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...