[ [242] See Note 235 above.
[ [243] See Note 235 above.
[ [244] 46. Save Aix. Notice that this is the first we know of the purpose of this ride. Is this an advantage or a disadvantage?
Incident of the French Camp [(Page 156)]
Ratisbon (German Regensburg), which has been besieged seventeen times since the eighteenth century, was stormed by Napoleon, May, 1809, during his Austrian campaign. Mrs. Sutherland Orr, the biographer of Browning, says this incident actually happened, except that the hero was a man and not a boy.
[ [245] 5. Neck out-thrust. Notice how Browning gives the well-known attitude of Napoleon.
[ [246] 9. Mused. What effect has this supposed soliloquy of Napoleon?
[ [247] 11. Lannes; a general of Napoleon's, and the Duke of Montebello.
[ [248] 29. Flag-bird. What bird was on Napoleon's flag?