Question: What day in December did Napoleon complete what is considered his greatest victory?
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In August 1826, Hazlitt and his wife set out for Paris again, so he could research what he hoped would be his masterpiece, a biography of Napoleon, seeking "to counteract the prejudiced interpretations of Scott's biography".
Hazlitt "had long been convinced that Napoleon was the greatest man of his era, the apostle of freedom, a born leader of men in the old heroic mould: he had thrilled to his triumphs over 'legitimacy' and suffered real anguish at his downfall".
This did not work out quite as planned.
His wife's independent income allowed them to take lodgings in a fashionable part of Paris; he was comfortable, but also distracted by visitors and far from the libraries he needed to visit.
Nor did he have access to all the materials that Scott's stature and connections provided him with for his own life of Napoleon.
Hazlitt's son also spent time with them, and there were conflicts between him and his father which also drove a wedge between Hazlitt and his second wife, and that marriage was now deteriorating rapidly.
None of his books were selling at all well, and thus time also had to be spent churning out more articles to pay expenses.
Despite all the distractions, a few essays written at this time proved to be among his finest, such as "On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth", published in "The Monthly Magazine" (not to be confused with the similarly named "New Monthly Magazine") in March 1827.
The essay "On a Sun-Dial", which appeared late in 1827, may have been written on an interpolated second tour to Italy with his wife and son.
Finally, after Hazlitt returned to London with his son in August 1827, he was shocked to discover that his wife, still in Paris, was leaving him.
He settled in modest lodgings on Half-Moon Street in London, and from then on fought a continual battle against poverty, regularly forced to grind out a stream of articles, mostly undistinguished, just to pay expenses.
Relatively little is known of Hazlitt's other activities in this period.
He spent as much time, apparently, at Winterslow as he did in London.
Some meditative essays emerged from this stay in his favourite country retreat, and he also made progress with his life of Napoleon.
But he also found himself struggling against bouts of illness, nearly dying at Winterslow in December 1827.
Two volumes—the first half—of the Napoleon biography appeared in 1828, only to have the publisher fail soon thereafter.
This meant even more financial difficulties for the author, and what little evidence we have of his activities at the time, apart from a stream of hastily written articles turned out to pay the bills, consists in large part of begging letters to publishers for advances of money.
The easy life he had spoken of to Northcote had largely vanished by the time that conversation was published about a year before his death.
By then he was overwhelmed by the degradation of poverty, frequent bouts of physical as well as mental illness—depression caused by his failure to find true love and by his inability to bring to fruition his defence of the man he worshipped as a hero of liberty and fighter of despotism.
Although Hazlitt retained a few devoted admirers, his reputation among the general public had been destroyed by the cadre of reviewers in Tory periodicals whose efforts Hazlitt had excoriated in "On the Jealousy and the Spleen of Party".
According to John Wilson of "Blackwood's Magazine", for example, Hazlitt had already "been excommunicated from all decent society, and nobody would touch a dead book of his, any more than they would the body of a man who had died of the plague".
This dark period was marked by a stream of short articles for weekly magazines like "The Atlas", written to generate desperately needed cash.
Nor has time been kind to the life of Napoleon itself.
However much Hazlitt hoped it would be his masterpiece, it was not merely a financial failure.
Although its four volumes represent his longest work, that work, as was eventually demonstrated, is a hodge-podge of mostly borrowed materials, poorly integrated, only about a fifth consisting of Hazlitt's own words.
Here and there, a few inspired passages stand out, such as the following: I have nowhere in any thing I may have written declared myself to be a Republican; nor should I think it worth while to be a martyr and a confessor to any form or mode of government.
But what I have staked health and wealth, name and fame upon, and am ready to do so again and to the last gasp, is this, that there is a power in the people to change its government and its governors.
Hazitt managed to complete "The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte" shortly before his death, but did not live to see it published in its entirety. 
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Napoleon, chasing after Blucher as fast as he could get his men to march, reached Fismes on 4 March where he was furious to learn that his quarry had escaped his clutches by making good his escape over the Aisnes at Soissons the evening before, which had since surrendered its garrison of 1,000 men.
His fury became greater still as he learned that McDonald had failed by allowing Troyes to be taken by the enemy, and leaving Schwarzenberg in possession of all the bridges over the Upper Seine.
"I cannot believe such ineptitude", he raved.
"No man can be worse seconded than I am."
Despite the unfavourable odds, Napoleon was still eager to come to grips with the Prussian general and intended to take Laon as soon as possible.
After crossing at Berry-au-Bac, on the River Aisnes, Napoleon directed his army of 38,000 men towards Laon where he encountered a strong enemy force holding the Plateau of Craonne on the morning of the 7th.
Napoleon at once ordered up an impatient Ney to engage the forces immediately in order to force a way through, but Ney, leading up his divisions of the Young Guard in the face of concentrated fire, was accordingly repulsed with heavy losses.
Time and time again, the French tried to storm the plateau, only to be hurled back by the resolute Russian defenders, who fought with a grim ferocity.
Eventually, Mortier arrived with 72 guns of the Guard artillery, and Blucher feeling both desperately unwell and disappointed in his failed counter-attack by his cavalry divisions, gave the order to withdraw.
In darkness, the Russian's sullenly withdrew, being hard pressed all the way by the French.
The Battle of Craonne ended as darkness fell.
About 25,000 men had fought on either side.
Napoleon had scored 5,000 casualties on the allied force, but he had lost some 500 more.
In the desperate fighting, both Grouchy and Victor had been seriously wounded.
Knowing by now that Blucher had received significant reinforcements, Napoleon still believed that he had been fighting a strong rearguard action against him.
In addition, he was under the illusion that Blucher was interested only in withdrawing to Belgium or to the River Oise, when in fact the stubborn Prussian general had every intention to stand his ground and fight at Laon.
As for Napoleon himself, although he had only some 37,000 men at his disposal, he thought he might yet score a devastating blow against Blucher's rearguard which might permit him to return to the crumbling southern front.
On the 8 March, under the happy illusion that Blucher was on the run, Napoleon sent word to Marmont, just north of Berry-au-Bac to advance on Laon from the east by the Reims road.
Whilst he himself moved on Laon, but when an incredulous Ney and Mortier saw the greater part of the Army of Silesia lying before them, Napoleon's illusions were crushed for Blucher had drew his army of 85,000 troops and 150 guns in a very strong position south of LaonAt 3:00 am on the morning of 9 March under cover of a thick blizzard, the Battle of Laon began as Napoleon audaciously threw his infantry forward and stormed Etouvelles.
At a disadvantage, since his 37,000 were outnumbered by Blucher's 85,000, Napoleon contented himself with throwing forward a series of sharp frontal attacks during the day, hoping that Marmont would arrive on the eastern side of Laon to take the Army of Silesia in the flank.
; for his part, Blucher showed great caution, for because of Napoleon's inferiority in numbers, he suspected a trap.
Shortly after two o'clock, Marmont made his belated arrival, making his appearance at the head of 10,000 men.
Forcing his weary and demoralised men into Athies, enemy resistance stiffened, and Seeing himself at such a disadvantage, Marmont welcomed the approaching darkness when the sporadic fighting died down, having no idea himself how Napoleon had fared in the west.
Blucher, carrying out an evening reconnaissance, saw for himself how exposed Marmont's position was, as well as Napoleon's weak position.
At once he ordered an attack at 7:00 pm on Marmont's young conscripts who weary of days of hard marching and fighting were completely taken by surprise with devastating results as the corps of Yorck and Kleist materialised out of the blackness, their bayonets flashing.
Up to 2,000 men surrendered as Marmont's command disintegrated and was put to flight, pouring back down the Berry road pursued by their attackers.
Just after 4:00 am the next morning, two fugitives revealed to Napoleon the disastrous news of Marmont's fate, with the loss of a third of his force, 45 guns and 120 wagons and all of its baggage.
Napoleon took the news with cool calm, and still determined and unconscious of the grave peril to his own army announced that he would stand his ground to give Marmont time to rally.
During the day, Winzingerode tried to recapture Clacy, but failed and the French launched limited skirmishing attacks against Laon, which made equally little progress.
That evening, Napoleon, seeing the futility of his situation managed to extricate his outnumbered men and march back to Soissons.
Napoleon wrote to his brother Joseph, to whom he had entrusted the security of Paris, the next day, slating Marmont's dire performance, "but for the crass stupidity of the Duke of Ragusa, who had who had behaved like a second lieutenant, it is probable that the enemy would have evacuated Laon for fear of an attack".
He continued to say in the despatch, "As it is, the Young Guard is melting away like snow...".
In two days of fighting, the French had lost some 6,000 casualties to the Coalition's 4,000, and yet Napoleon had been fortunate, for on 10 March he might have been decisively defeated were it not for the incredible paralysis that had overtaken the Army of Silesia, following the complete collapse of Blucher's health - With the elderly Prussian general convinced that he was dying and was about to enter a better world, he steadfastly declined to issue any orders or discuss the military situation at hand.
As a result, the whole army was hamstrung and Gneisenau, his Chief-of-Staff, acting in his absence allowed himself to be overawed by Napoleon's military reputation and had subsequently allowed Napoleon to extricate his troops from a perilous position.
The situation for Napoleon, was now critical on all sectors.
With his forces under Mcdonald driven north of the Seine by a victorious Schwarzenberg, and now himself checked at Laon, it seemed that he now had barely 75,000 weary and demoralised men to defend Paris itself against a combined army of 200,000 soldiers.
Everywhere the news spoke of total collapse..
In the South, Marshal Soult had been defeated by Wellington at the Battle of Orthez and was being pushed back to Toulouse.
Belgium had already fallen, whilst in Italy, his stepson Eugene only held his own with some difficulty.
As for Augereau, he had abandoned his drive on Geneva and had fallen back to Lyon.
The only grains of comfort, small that they were, was that the ever redoubtable Marshal Davout was still holding out in Hamburg, and perhaps a dozen or so fortresses on the eastern border still flew the tricolour.
Momentarily, Napoleon toyed with the idea of going east to collect the troops tied up in the border fortresses, and despite the depressing situation, there was still plenty of fight left in him.
While he meditated at Soissons, he then learnt that St-Priest, in an effort to draw near to Blucher at Laon and establish communications with him, had taken Reims.
With St-Priest within easy striking distance, Napoleon now deduced he could win a snap victory.
On 13 March, Napoleon thus advanced on Reims at speed, arriving there at nightfall and taking the Russians under St-Priest by surprise.
Intending to take Reims come the morning, Napoleon was counter-surprised when the Russian's advanced upon his positions at 10:00 pm that evening.
Rousing himself, Napoleon ordered the Guard artillery forward into action.
Since the artillery of the line blocked the road, Napoleon ordered "Push the whole lot in the ditch, I must be in Reims by midnight".
With this dutifully done, the Guard artillery charged up the road to form a battery facing the city and after firing of a great salvo to smash the gates into dust, Napoleon gave the signal for his cuirassiers to charge.
Aided by the light from lanterns which had been hung out by the inhabitants to aid their compatriots, the charge of the cuirassiers was terrible to behold as they swept all before them, sending the reeling Russians, scattering in all directions.
Napoleon as good as his word, was indeed in Reims by midnight.
Inflicting 6,000 casualties on St-Priest, who himself had fallen in the brief battle, mortally wounded by a cannonball, Napoleon had barely lost 700 men and understandably he was jubilant at his success.
"I am still the man I was at Austerlitz and Wagram", he boasted to a wavering Fouche, who unbeknown to him was secretly in touch with members of the Coalition.
French morale now soared and the shocked Coalition members were now threw into the greatest alarm, for now the outcome of the campaign once again appeared to hang in the balance as Blucher drew back and the cautious Schwarzenberg halted his advance.
Now astride Blucher's lines of communications at Chalon's and Vitry, Napoleon knew that temporarily he held the initiative and that he must now move quickly before the Coalition armies recovered from his bold stroke.
Intuitively, he knew time was running out for him and that he must score a major success, something more substantial than the mere mauling of a single corps.
Ordering Durutte to move east to break out the beleaguered fortress garrisons and join him with what he optimistically estimated as some 12,000 men, and leaving Marmont and Mortier to contain Blucher he swung himself southwards with 28,000 men to deal with Schwarzenberg whom he intended to score a quick success against, in order that he might quickly return to Blucher on the Aisne.
Indeed, when the Allied sovereigns heard of his approach, there was a rising panic, and Schwarzenberg acting true to form began to withdraw on 17 March upon Troyes, frustrating his ambitions.
Encouraged by Caulaincourt's advice that the members of the Coalition might be willing to grant a peace again, Napoleon tried to open new negotiations, but to no avail, for he sensed the war weariness of his marshals and the exhaustion of his troops who were falling away like flies.
Of himself, he too was tiring of the struggle, for the strain of conducting a campaign almost single handedly against almost impossible odds was beginning to tell on him both physically and mentally.
Members of the Coalition scornfully replied that they were "not to be prepared to negotiate with the Corsican Tyrant on any terms".
It was to be a bitter fight to the finish. 
Whilst playing for The Adelaide Rams in the Round 13 game against the St George Dragons, Iro received the ball ten metres out from the Dragons line with ten seconds remaining.
In what is considered the only instance of this event occurring, Iro proceeded to run forward at the defensive line, then slowly began to run backwards and continued to run backwards to his own 40 metre line were he would be tackled and the game would end with a 22 to 20 victory for the Rams.
This is considered one of the greatest moments in the history of rugby league and by far the greatest moment in the short history of the now defunct Adelaide Rams. 
Hegel was putting the finishing touches to this book as Napoleon engaged Prussian troops on October 14, 1806, in the Battle of Jena on a plateau outside the city.
On the day before the battle, Napoleon entered the city of Jena.
Hegel recounted his impressions in a letter to his friend Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer:I saw the Emperor – this world-soul – riding out of the city on reconnaissance.
It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it .
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this extraordinary man, whom it is impossible not to admire.
"That Hegel said this to Niethammer at that time is all the more striking since at that point he had already composed the crucial section of the "Phenomenology" in which he remarked that the Revolution had now officially passed to another land (Germany) that would complete "in thought" what the Revolution had only partially accomplished in practice."