The Clarendon Biographies, Volume 4Oxford University Press, 1965 - Biography |
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... military school at Brienne . With his peculiar accent and brooding , intense man- ner he was inevitably something of an ' outsider ' . But then , Buonaparte never throughout his career really made friends with anyone . Some of his ...
... military school at Brienne . With his peculiar accent and brooding , intense man- ner he was inevitably something of an ' outsider ' . But then , Buonaparte never throughout his career really made friends with anyone . Some of his ...
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... military governor , Murat , arranged for a summary ' trial ' and for his burial , at 2 a.m. on March 21 , in a grave already prepared for him . ' I have , ' said Bonaparte , ' imposed silence for ever on royalists and Jacobins alike ...
... military governor , Murat , arranged for a summary ' trial ' and for his burial , at 2 a.m. on March 21 , in a grave already prepared for him . ' I have , ' said Bonaparte , ' imposed silence for ever on royalists and Jacobins alike ...
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... Military science , ' he told Madame de Rémusat after a dinner held the evening Enghien was shot , ' consists in first calculating all the possibilities accur- ately and then in making an almost mathematically exact allow- ance for ...
... Military science , ' he told Madame de Rémusat after a dinner held the evening Enghien was shot , ' consists in first calculating all the possibilities accur- ately and then in making an almost mathematically exact allow- ance for ...
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