To lose by one month's frost, some twenty years
Of conquest, and his guard of grenadiers."
—Byron (Don Juan, canto x. stanza 58).
SERIES P
(For subjoined Notes to this Series see pages [312]-[315].)
| LETTER | PAGE | |
| No. 1. | Konigsberg | [312] |
| No. 2. | Gumbinnen | [313] |
1812.
Montgaillard sums up his tirade against Napoleon for the Russian campaign by noting that it took the Romans ten years to conquer Gaul, while Napoleon "would not give two to the conquest of that vast desert of Scythia which forced Darius to flee, Alexander to draw back, Crassus to perish; where Julian terminated his career, where Valerian covered himself with shame, and which saw the disasters of Charles XII."