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THE WAR DRAMA
OF THE EAGLES
PORTE-AIGLE, IMPERIAL GUARD, AND GRENADIER SERGEANT IN PARADE UNIFORM.
From St. Hilaire’s Histoire de la Garde Impériale.
THE WAR DRAMA
OF THE EAGLES
NAPOLEON’S STANDARD-BEARERS ON THE BATTLEFIELD IN VICTORY AND DEFEAT FROM AUSTERLITZ TO WATERLOO A RECORD OF HARD FIGHTING, HEROISM AND ADVENTURE
BY EDWARD FRASER
AUTHOR OF “THE ENEMY AT TRAFALGAR,” “FAMOUS FIGHTERS OF THE FLEET,” “THE ‘LONDONS,’” ETC.
“These Eagles to you shall ever be your rallying-point. Swear to sacrifice your lives in their defence; to maintain them by your courage ever in the path of victory.”—On the Day of the Presentation on the Field of Mars.
“The soldier who loses his Eagle loses his Honour and his All!”
Address to the 4th of the Line after Austerlitz.
“The loss of an Eagle is an affront to the reputation of its regiment for which neither victory nor the glory acquired on a hundred fields can make amends.”
55th Bulletin of the Grand Army: 1807.
Napoleon.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1912
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