The Washington herald., 1914-09-20
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of the allies. and were the paymasters of
the allied sovereigns.
The English. the Russians. and the
PrussianS were alarmed by Metternich S
offer, but the Austrian diplomat assured
them he would raise the price of peace
if Napoleon should show any sign OF
taking him al his word. The Emperor
did indeed make a pTetense of yielding
almost everything. But he was still in
sisting on keeping Hamburg, Bremen,
and one or two other dots on the map.
when the bells of Prague struck the mid
night hour on the 10th OF August. and
bonfires famed up from the hilltops clear
to the Silesian frontier. as a signal that
the armistice was over.
The truce Of ten weeks had been far
more profitable to the allies than to Ma
poleon. Not only hGd Austria been drawn
to their side. but Bernadotte. crown
gent Of Swedes generously subsidized by
England, also had come to Join in the at
tack upon the tricolor flag. beneath
whose favoring folds he had risen from
poleon had gained only one ally, the
wayward King Murat of Naples. who
now rejoined him in a spirit of Contrition
and assured him that his heart was
sounder than his head.
Moreover. the Russians and Prussians
themselves had brought up two new men
for every recruit that Napoleon had been
able TO call to his standard. Against his
5-b,VuO troops ana l.-D : ullS AT Ine reopen
ing Of the war. the allies had no less than
a full half million actually in the field
with 1,400 cannon, and they had also
enormous reserves. The total OF all Ma
poleon's forces everywhere was less than
6O0.OOO nearly $4,000 of whom were vast
ing themselves in Spain and Italy and
in German fortresses. while his foes had
more than 100000 soldiers enrolled be-
meath their banners.
Fraternity of Hate.
Confidence reigned in the allied head
quarters, where. around the avenging
Gar. motley group had been drawn to-
gether from the ends of the earth with
no other motive in common than their
envy or hatred Of the colossus, who had
so long bestrode the narrow world. There
was Frederick William of Prussia, who
saw at last his chance to break his chains
and revenge himself for Jena and Tilsit.
there were English representatives who
had camped on Napoleons trail for
twenty years and among them was Col.
Hudson Lowe. ready to bind the fallen
giant and drag him TO his rock of cap
tivity.
Irreconcilable emigres. whom the
usurper .in his glory had been unable to
lure from their Bourbon allegiance, were
gathered like huntsmen when the game
is run to cover. One of them was his
OlO SedlITdle III lHt IllllAdlg SNlOOA VI
Paris. where three boys sat in a row
Phelipeaux, Picot de Peccaduc, and Ma
poleon Bonaparte-and the first named
and the last kicked at each other behind
the desk until the second, who sat be-
tween, had to move his wounded legs
from the firing line. PhelipeauX settled
his score at the gate OF Acre, where he
mounted the guns on the wall for the
Turks and stopped his sChoolroom enemy
n his march win amDiTa in tire
East. And now Picot was on the stan
of the Austrian commander, Prince
Schwarzenberg, where, after twenty-five
years, he was fondly hoping to avenge
his shins.
The ubiquitous Pozzo de Borgo, that
Corsican Nemesis, was there of course,
painting with an unslaked thirst for re-
venge and eager to carry TO the bitter
the streets S0f Ajaccio. Napoleon need
ed only one man to have become the mas
Ter of the world and / am that man."
Such was Pozzo's boast in all the after
BY the side of that relentless vendet-
tist was a man whose hate was younger
but no smaller. This was Moreau, the
victor in the battle of Hohenlinden,
from Martinique, had rebelled against
the exaltation OF theiS- sister islander,
Josephine, and estranged the general
from Napoleon, who banished him to
america al Ine IIiie Ol tIc DOSI ooh PiOt
and the shooting of the Duke d'Enghein.
There is a tradition that President Mad
son offered the refugee the command OF
the American army in the War Of 1872,
but he was tempted by an emissary of
the Gar to return to Europe, after an
exile of more than eight years on the
banks of the Delaware, and Join in
bringing down the eagle.
The Gar had drawn one man to his
SIDE out OF the very camp of Napoleon. |
That was Gen. Jomini, the Swiss banker |
who had OWNED and published the wiz |
ards tricks Of military magic, but had |
grown dissatisfied with his rewards as a |
MEMBER OF Marshal Ney's stan and |
mistice.
one man alone at the allied headuuar-
teTs could not frankly share the general |
IteJolSlhg over the prospect of upsettinK |
Austria was unable to forget that his |