Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume V.

Pocket Edition
VOL. V.
LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE By SIR WALTER SCOTT, BAR T . VOL. 5.
Hougoumont
EDINBURGH; A. & C. BLACK.
1876




Buonaparte marches upon Blucher, who is in possession of Soissons—Attacks the place without success—Battle of Craonne—Blucher retreats on Laon—Battle of Laon—Napoleon is compelled to withdraw on the 11th—He attacks Rheims, which is evacuated by the Russians—Defeat at Bar-sur-Aube of Oudinot and Gerard, who, with Macdonald, are forced to retreat towards Paris—Schwartzenberg wishes to retreat behind the Aube—but the Emperor Alexander and Lord Castlereagh opposing the measure, it is determined to proceed upon Paris—Napoleon occupies Arcis—Battle of Arcis—Napoleon is joined, in the night after the battle, by Macdonald, Oudinot, and Gerard—and retreats along the Aube.
The sword was now again brandished, not to be sheathed or reposed, until the one party or the other should be irretrievably defeated.