The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-10-10
England Grapples Napoleon"
Or. ]. Sumner Stone

We Americans are inheritors of the
traditions of Bible loving race. We
are familiar with the family altar
and the open Bible. Across the "Silver
Streak" though Marat had been slain
by Charlotte Corday, Robespinerre's
head with that of Danton and the
red-handed barber, Samson, had fallen
into the bloody basket, the fires still
ragged.
One day a young artillery officer
stood with his guns primed at the
head of street filed with raging
Jacobins. He was then a comparatively
unknown Corsican officer named "Bu-
onaparte." Fire" he shouted. A
Whit of grapeshot scattered the mob,
blew the Reign of Terror to tophet.
Career of Napoleon.
Thus began the amazing career Of
Napoleon. A rival of Alexander the
Great, Hannibal and julius Caesar,
was in the saddle. Like a whirlwind
he crossed the Alps, burst upon the
armies of Austria with 10000 French
troops, startled the world by the ra-
pidity with which he swept the armies,
many times the number he command
ed, in hopeless defeat, debating peace
under the walls of Vienna. Returning
loaded with booty, he became "First
Consul" of France. With the speed of
his campaigns and the genius of an
administrator, he brought cosmos out
of chaos and put the affairs of the ma
ton, civil and financial, in condition
and prepared to follow Alexander to
Macedon and found an empire in Asia.
He sailed for Egypt, anticipating
Mussolini by century and a quar-
| ter.
Up from the common ranks, assum-
ing like Mussolini that he was a god,
he defeated the Mamalukes under the
great pyramid, crying, SOLDIERS of
France, forty centuries look upon you
as you fight" He scattered the great
est cavalry force of the age as if it
were chaff. Onward the conqueror
marched to Jaffe and Acre. There an
Englishman, commanding Turkish
forces, stood in his path. He struck,
he failed, he recoiled. Some historians
say he poisoned his wounded and sick
and marched back to Egypt.
News of Nelson's destruction of his
fleet and an English victory on the
shore, lighted by his burning ships,
he had hurried his return Escaping the
vigilance of Nelson, he again reached
the shores of France. At home things
were in wild confusion. The Austrians
had regained by succession of vic
tories their power in north Italy.
Again the Alps were scaled. The eagles
of Napoleon bounced upon the Aus
TRANS at Marengo, Again the en-
peror of Austria submitted to an ig-
nominious peace under the walls of
Vienna.
Soon Germany was overrun, utterly
defeated. Russia, Austria and Ger
many at Austerlitz were Inundated,
defeated. The hour had struck for his
browning as emperor in the church of
Notre Dame. Though the pope must be
present at the browning, only the
hands of Napoleon should place the
vrown of Charlemagne on his brow.
There he also crowned Josephine en-
press.
The English lion was still prowling
on his track. Nelson hxd driven him
from Egypt, had burst the bubble of
his Asiatic dream of empire. Lord
Nelson at Trafalgar destroyed the COM
bined French and Spanish fleet. Will
liam Pitt, young and indomitable as
Napoleon, was at the helm in Downing
street. He led Europe against Napo-
leon. Money, men were not spared
combination after combination was
formed against the would-be world
conqueror. At Lutzen, Europe in arms
defeated him and sent him, prisoner,
to Elbe. Escaping to France, for one
hundred days more he fought and was