The Washington herald., 1914-07-12

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July ST. las-Victory Of WGC1m-
July 6 IsOePope Plus arrested.
July Is ls0e-Fanco-AustTian armisuce
Octnher a lS0s-TreAty Of peace.
November Is IG-Napoleon in PARA
& Napoleon raced back from Spain
n on lathered horses in the open
~ ing month Of the year 1903, the
flames of the Spanish revolution
bursting forth with new fury, 1T up
the southern sky behind him. while the
fore him in the northern sky. He was
caught between two great wars, and
must now take up arms against thaI
sea Of troubles wherein ne was 70 PAT
waves of disaster which at last were
TO dash him upon the rock OF ST. he
lena.
Austria had no new points Of quarrel
no fresh provocation to war. she
fought simply because she thought she
was ready. after four years of diii-
she had lost at Austerlitz, and because
she fattered herself that. with 25o.oOO
soldiers hotly engaged in Spain, her
had struck, so the Aulic Council or
Vienna calculated to regain some of
the many lands sacrificed in seventeen
years of disastrous warfare
The Curtain Raiser.
Metternich, who was eager for the
strife. was the Austrian Ambassador
at Paris. and Napoleon said Of him tnat
he was almost a statesman; ne nes
very we'll" 1t was Metternich's con-
genial part to put forth his utmost
skill in deception to divert Napoleon
came to fall upon him in full force and
take him unawares. the emperor
made the crafty Ambassadors task light
by receiving with .t6es the s,mPlese, IMP Se,teTe.
tions of friendship. But behind the
scenes of that little farce. Napoleon was
busily moving the varieolored pms on
Germany and Italy not far from 3Oo.-
900 men of many nations, ready te
meet an equal force which austria mao
been quietly bringing TO her colors. In
order that the deceivers might not oe
undeceived, he went about his business
in Paris as usual until an Apn
graph brought him the expected news
that the Austrian army had stolen
across the placid river Inn. the
vars in the valley of the Danube.
With Josephine besides him IN his coach
he started for the front at : CLOCK the
next morning, After leaving the I'm m,
two kings along the way he arrived at
the headquarters OF his army IN ~ hours
The distance by rail is about 800 miles
and the time by express train today Is
20 hours.
Napoleon at the Front.
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had entrusted his command OF the !
Army and given the most explicit inStruc-
tiCns as to every move that should be /
made was not at headquarters to greer |
his master, but was wandering about /
the country in despair over the tangle |
into which he had raveled the FORCES. AS |
and bewildered chief of stan and read
the confusing orders and amazing re-
ports that Uttered it, he quickly took in
the wretched situation of his troops.
s,t, in hl nn a
territory eighty miles wide, without SUI
rcient strength to make stand at any
point /
BY the blind luck of war the Archduke
Charles. brother of the Austrian En-
peror and Commander-in-Chief, had not
taken advantage of his helpless adver-
cat. the poor cat in the adage. Charles
had been across the Inn almost d
week without firing a shot and had
taken six days to march fifty miles. Had
Napoleon stood in his shoes there would
not have been left a shred CT the French
Army.
The Emperor instantly grasped the
dangling retns and in an hour his cour- ,
iers were squirting their horses in every
direction with orders designed to unite
the Army. Activity Activity" :
Rapidly" he scrawled in a postscript ,
to Massena- The hills and valleys every !
where rang with salvos announcing to :
the soldiers that the great captain had
come.
There followed one Of the most bril- y
liant weeks in Napoleon's military life ;
At the end of "a hours he had reformed :
his disrupted army in the presence Of the i
enemy, and he continued TO draw his dis I
persed legions together until they we're :
massed in a front only sixteen or seven =
teen miles wide. Already he was on the
offensive. Y
The Emperor Wounded.
After fighting four or five battle in as s
many days, Napoleon stood at the brink {
~ he mn q fna NJ
Of Ratisbon, when he was struck in the e
right heel by a long-range Tyrolean rifle
II was a painful sting, and he leaned on L
Marshal Lannes, but the surgeon quickly
dressed the wound while the Imperial
patient sat on a drum. Napoleon assured
Josephine in letter that II was n trivial a
accident and that the ball scarcely a
-azed the tendon Achilles d
But il was the first time within the p
knowledge Of his soldiers that their En- Il
Deror had received even a scratch, and S
hey saw him wounded. Thousands broke v
-anks and surrounded him, Indifferent to g
he Austrian guns which were peltIngl
he excited assemblage. 4
To dtsperse the group and reassure the h
Lrmy, he mounted his horse and rode a
iown the lines on waves OF cheers Peus- h
ng before each command, he called upon Z
he commander to name the men under c
hem deserving Of special honors. and Z
here on the field he transformed pri- d
ates ana corporals and sergeants into u
il46HAs VI lHe empire ana CheNalierS of
he Legion of Honor. That extraordi- II
AIRY review under fire having been fin- d
shed, ne ordered the scaling ladders h
o his hillock, where, as Wordsworth q,
ortrays him ~
mile or away. on 4 little mound d
Napoleon stood on our storning day II
With neck outthrlst, you fancy how is
Legs wide arms locked bino Iol
As If TO balance the prone brow lin
Oppressive with his mind Iw
One week after the Emperor's arrivs y,
{ headquarters he was in Ratisbon | %
nj the Archduke Charles was running hs
n into the wilds of Bohemia, Wbiie ra
he victorious invaders were pourIns