New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-05-26

alyzinc the campaign Of Waterloo shows t"d'
Napoleon rightly Disseminated between INC cha'
acters Of Butcher and Wellington. and pianheo
his movements with view to their differences
1t Is only Napoeons first campaign that oeu"!s
the absence from his calculations OF persona
cjen,ents But In that case. as events showed all
the generals opposed to him acted alKe III ac-
cordance with rules of warfare which were use
less against him. They scattered their armies
and were unable to time their movements lie
combined his forces for every decisive blow ana
was able to tell exactly where every deta ,A'neh'
o,,ob, "a ho at n given moment. At twenty-six
he could not have known much about the pccu-
ua,Ities OF Austrian generals, but then L'euten-
ant Sargent shows that he did not nsed thls
ErowIedge HIS problems belonged to 'nih'ary
science in the purest sense Of the term the per-
sonality that had to be studied was MS OWL dpo
he could leave that to others.
The most puzzling thing to account Tor IN re-
spect to Napoleon is the estimates mat are
placed upon him by those who write ABOUT MIN.
Lord Wolseley calls him the greatest OF men. ana
vet thinks him thoroughly bad. De Seg'ir tegan
NV hating him and ended by serving him with
reverent loyalty He found Napoleon kind. pater-
nal. always ready to atone for harsh word ny
some caressns politcness. He reports rev or
none Of those cynical sayings when are attrip-
uted to TIE Emperor. In the case or certain
famous phrase his testimony pu;s inc RESPONSE
hi,itv on Vandamme In the sequel to the battle
OF Austcrlitz when the remnants OF the Austio-
Buss,an right wing were still keeping up the
fight De Stcur found few hundred foot soldiers
resisting the French picked squadron. While he
was contemplating this struggle. he heard van
damne call out "Stgur. come and help me take
this mark of artillery imbedded In the mud. which
a few drunken artlerymen alone are defending
and no adds: The capture was indeed so rasy
that two Of us suffced for 1t. At this moment
CAM. I'D one OF the battaons reduced to loo
men: and on my exclamation at the sight o. 50
small q number ne replied: Yes. indeed: IL Is
inpossible TO make a good omelcte without
breaking a great many eggs 1t was van
damme also who said that he feared neither GOD
nor devil. Unless he can be shown u
have borrowed the hcartless remark ABOUT
omclettes from Napoleon. the latter shouid
be relieved of at least one discreditap'e
anccdote often related Of him. Thee only
affair In which De Segur really condemns
NAPOLEON is the killing Of the Due d'Enghien.
But he joins 1t so closely TO the story OF BOURBON
conspiracies against Napoleon's life. and follows
It 50 quickly with the pertinent remark that AFTER
II conspraces ceased. as seemingly to JUSTIFY II
in point OF policy Will shocked d, its i'J"s"'o'
He illustrates indirectly ~ incidents from MS
own experience the pitiiess habit OF Napo.eon in
battle a habit which seemed to grow upon MIN
He was not only willing u see men die that VIC
tory might be won but In the effort II achieve
the impossible. The mere utterance OF TINS "o'u
impossible" in his hearing sometimes provoked
him 10 send troops where destruction was new
table Apparently De Segur observed this TRAIT III
Napoleons character after ihinss pesan ~ sp
wrong that is from the moment when IN" war
in Spain became truly national struggle asaiiiS'
Napoleonic aggression. 1t is there. apparently.
rather than with the fatal Russian eNp"dlti"n
that De Segur looks for the beginning OF N"po
leon.s gradual decline. In the approach to Ma,
drid the last obstacle was Somino- sierra ana
there the exclamation. 1T Is IMPOSSIBLE. led MN
10 send De Segur with the Polish squadron on
charge along road wh.'h was rencu y. 49,.
muskets and forty discharges OF grapeshot every
minnie De Selrir himself on" or the lev
who returned from this Grand ana he receiver
number OF wounds Only twenty men escaped
The charge was fru:tless the dtid'klhs '"i'' n"'
melted away before Il reached the enemy I.h"
\apoleon had reason 20 rrp" what the result
would be before he gave the ordcg. In his earlier
CAMPAIGNS while No would have been eqH"iiN IN
different to the lives o. rs men, ne "o'u nav
seen TO II that the Slaughter was OF some ns" 10
him in the outcome OF the battle Incidents Of
this sort must be considered in the light ~ the
fact which Lord Wolseley insists upon that Napo-
Icons fortunes followed the course OF a mys-
.crous disease As he describes IT. this ailinent
derived Napoleon Of will power and even Of his
noenta, processes when the paroxysms were on. IN
oppos,tion to Theirs and in agreement WIN
chancellor PasQuier. Lord Wosoley sees IN
Nanoleons failure after n" battle o. Dresden
signs q. this disease and his account OF Waterloo
makes the Emperor a Sleepy politician rather
than an alert warrior-a man who cOIld plan a
campaign as well az ever. but who no longer had
the activity to carry out his designs