The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
The Soldier of Fortune Has Found His
Destiny.
and
Coalition Allies and
wright. 1875, by John clark Ridpath.

The soldiers Of the west and south drov
by thousands on the frozen roads Tn,
snow covers them. The ice-darts in theil
sides are sharper than bayonets The col
umhs stagger and swing 10 right and left
hundred and twenty thousand men roll
away across the hostile world. At the
Beresina the bridges are broken dowr
under the retreating army. In the follow,
ing spring, when the ice gorges go dOwr
| the river, 1000 dead Frenchmen shall De
washed up from the hoodsl
! There is constant battle on flank and
rear. All stragglers perish. The army
| dWlndles. Ney brings up the rear-guard
wasted TO a handful At the passage of
the Niemen. sOiled with dirt. blackened
| with smoke, without insignia with only
drawn sword and facing backwards to-
wards the hated region, the "Bravest of
the Brave" crosses the bridge. He is the
last man to save himself from the indie
scnbable horrors Of the campaign Of Rus
STA.
The remnants Of the Grand Army find
! refuge in Konigsberg Napoleon, after
| Moscow, had taken TO sledge and had
| sped across the snow covered wastes Of
| Poland on his way to Paris. He came there
! UnannOunced At four o'clock on the fol-
| lowing morning, some one found him in
his office al the Tuileries with his war
map of Europe spread before him on the
| ioori
As soon as it was known that the Grand
! Army was under the SHOWS of Russia,
] there were signs Of upheaval through all
\ the borders OF the west. The Germanic
\ states were first to profit by the disasters
\ OF the French. Frederick William gave his
/ hand TO the Gar. There was revolt in
| Hamburg. The Confederation of the Rhine
/ began to fall to pieces. Alexander sent an
/ army to Berlin; Napoleon must guard his
/ eastern frontier or Derish
The turmoil Of 1913 began on the End of
May with the battle of Lutzen. With in
credible speed Napoleon had planted his
new armies on a line extending from Luz
bee TO Venice. At Lutzen the French were
victorious Frederick William, Alexan-
der and Napoleon were once more on the
same field! On the 2lst of May, the en-
peror hurled $4,000 men on the allies at
Bautzen, and won another victory Da-
Yout retook Hamburg, and terribly pun
ished that place for it's detection Napo-
leon held Dresden in one hand and routed
the allies with the other until his antago-
nlsts We're glad to accept an armistice.
They agreed to convene at Prague for
making treaty OF peace
But secretly in the interim, the car and
Frederick William aided by England CON
structed the Fifth Coalition Austria and
SaXony We're won over to the league The
father of Maria Louisa perfdiously en-
tered the lists against her husband. on
the 26th of August, after the truce had ex-
pired, the emperor met the Prussians and
Russians al Dresden, and gained another
victory. But his enemies We're only beaten
not overwhelmed.
The war in other parts of the field bore
hardly on the French. At Grossbeeren the
allies defeated Oudinot. and on the 26th of
August, the battle of Katsbach was won
by Blueher over Macdonald, who suffered
heavy losses in men and guns. Bernadotte,
who had renounced the emperor came
down against Ney at Dennewitz and there.
on the 9th of September, disastrously de-
feated him. The allies concentrated in
great force on Leipsic. and on the 18th of
October We're beaten there by Bonaparte
Nainly he sought to open negotiations. The
second battle of Leipsic was fought on the
18th of the month"; terrible conflict in
which Napoleon was forced from the field.
The city was taken; the bridges blown up;
and Poniatowsky drowned in the Elster.
The French, hard pressed, were obliged
TO fall back from the frontier of Germany
In November Napoleon reached Paris He
sought in all possible ways to conclude a
peace, but also exerted himself during the
winter to prepare for the coming ava
lanche. Beyond the Rhine the French pow
er was broken up. Hanover was recov-
cred by the allies. Holland proclaimed
William !. of Orange. Jerome had to alb
dictate the throne to Westphalia. The small
princes of Germany took back their an
cient estates. Norway went to Sweden.
Denmark leagued with Great Britain. The
Austrians overran the Illyrian provinces.
Murat, King of Naples, made a treaty
with Austria. Only Eugene, viceroy OF
Italy, remained loyal in support of the
emperor
In the beginning of 1914 was begun the
so-called campaign of France Napoleon
everywhere confronted his enemies All
the eastern borders were darkened with
the oncoming armies of the coalition. Wei
lington, who in the preceding summer had
won the great battle of Vittoria, was
now in command of the allies of the side
of Flanders. Napoleon gave the pope his
liberty and restored him to his states.
All the whales and monsters of the Mid
die Ages came up from the sea- he threw
to this one bait and to that one a tub.
The Austrians under Sehwartzenburg
crossed the Rhine Butcher also crossed,
at Coblentz. The Russians came by way
of Holland. Bernadotte pressed southwark
with 100000 men.
The struggle that ensued was without a
parallel in history. Napoleon, like King
John at Poitiers, warded right and ward
ed left. He fought one battle after an
other, until both Butcher and Schwartz
zenburg were crushed, and Austria sued
turned to the battle with the powerful sup
port of Russia and Sweden and England
and the French began to recede. 1t was
now seen that the allied generals had
learned from the lion many of his own
arts of war.
Napoleon, with his usual audacity
plunged into Germany; the allies, instead
of following him, pressed on towards
Paris, and the emperor was obliged to
return. Arriving at Fontainebleau he
found that Alexander and Frederick Will
lam were already in his capital. Europe
was in an uproar. The French empire
was sinking to its knees. Such legislative
authority as existed in Paris was asserting
itself for peace and abdication On the
18th of April the emperor agreed to with
draw in favor of his son. but the triumph
ant allies would have nothing less than
the absolute. The absolute was accepted
by the Man of Destiny. To him was Civ.
en-, instead of the empire of Europe, the
island of Elba, with its ninety square
miles of petty mountains, its sardines its
crabapples and its small wine! Besides
this. in compensation for the crowns OF
Caesar and Charlemagne. we will give
Gen. Bonaparte a pension of 1900, OOC
francsi John Clark Ridpath