CORPORAL SPOHN.
The great Corporal Spohn is still well remembered in Coblence; he was one of the most faithful of men. He saved the life of the Emperor Napoleon at the battle of the three Emperors. Napoleon had advanced too boldly, and was in imminent danger of being taken prisoner by the Cossacks; if not, which was more likely still, killed by those wild soldiers. Corporal Spohn having noticed the desperate position of Napoleon, ran up, and an agreement was hastily made, by which Spohn mounted the white horse of Napoleon, who escaped then unnoticed.
The Emperor was saved as a corporal; and the Corporal died as an emperor.
Ever since Spohn has been called the Great Corporal, and Napoleon the Little Corporal.