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[ Napoleon, "Correspondance." (Note of April 11, 1811.) "There will always be at Hamburg, Bremen and Lubeck from 8,000 to 10,000 French, either employees or gendarmes, in the customs and depots.">[
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[ One officer may be counted to every 50 men in the infantry; in the cavalry 1 officer to every 25 or 30 men,—This ratio of one officer to every fifty men indicates that, among the 1,700,000 men who perished between 1804 and 1815, there were 24,000 officers, which gives about 3,000 vacancies per annum, to which must be added the vacancies due to the wounded, disabled and and retired. It must be noted, moreover, that the death or retirement of an officer above the grade of second-lieutenant makes several vacancies, vacancies which are more numerous the higher the rank. When a captain is killed there are three promotions and so on.]
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[ "The Revolution" III., 335. (Laff. II. p. 250)—Already, in 1795, the need of competent and specialized men was so great that the government sought, even among royalists, for financial and diplomatic heads of these services; it made offers to M. Dufresne and to M. de Rayneval.—Ib. 406.—(Cf. "Mémoires" by Gaudin, Miot de Melito and Mollien.)]
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[ Words of Bouquier, reporter of the law on education (session of the Convention, Frimaire 22, year II).]
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[ The reader is recommended to do as I have done and consult biographies on point, also the souvenirs of his grandparents. (H.A.Taine.)]