Given by Ducasse, "Les Rois Frères de Napoléon," p. 64.

[413]

Hausser, p. 503. According to Napoleon, 6,000 men and forty cannon were captured!

[414]

Letter of February 18th, 1814.

[415]

At Elba Napoleon told Colonel Campbell that he would have made peace at Châtillon had not England insisted on his giving up Antwerp, and that England was therefore the cause of the war continuing. This letter, however, proves that he was as set on retaining Mainz as Antwerp. Caulaincourt then wished him to make peace while he could do so with credit ("Castlereagh Papers," vol. ix., p. 287).