Search results for "Memoirs"
epub |eng | 2016-02-08 | Author:Mme. Du Hausset [Hausset, Mme. Du]

Heated by a subject to him so interesting, the Chevalier, forgetful of the respect due to his assumed garb, started from his seat, and, pulling up his petticoats, threw himself ...
( Category: France February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-02-24 | Author:Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat [Rémusat, Madame de]

* * * CHAPTER VI (1804.) THE First Consul spared no pains to allay the excitement which was caused by this event. He perceived that his conduct had raised the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-02-24 | Author:unknow

SECOND DECREE. Napoleon, &c. Article I. All the emigrants, whose names have not been erased, amnestied, or eliminated, by us, or by the governments that have preceded us; and who ...
( Category: other February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:unknow

CHAPTER IX. Influence of Madame de Pompadour in the Councils of France—French reverses—Wolfe’s Embarrassments—His Conquest of Quebec—His death—Perfidy and cruelty of the French Government—Bankruptcy of France—Meeting of Parliament—Mr. Pitt’s speech—Lord ...
( Category: Friendship February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-02-24 | Author:Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat [Rémusat, Madame de]

* * * CHAPTER XXIV (1807.) MEANWHILE the severity of winter gradually lessened in Poland, and everything indicated a renewal of hostilities. The bulletin of the 16th of May informed ...
( Category: France February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-16 | Author:Cooke, John Henry, Sir [Cooke, John Henry, Sir]

The baggage followed the line of march in succession. The mules of each company were tied together, and conducted by two batmen in rotation, right or left in front, according ...
( Category: other February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-02-24 | Author:Empress of Russia Catherine II [Catherine, Empress of Russia II]

* * * 1753. Here we lodged in a wing built of wood, constructed only this autumn, and in such a way that the water ran down the wainscoting, and ...
( Category: Royalty February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de [Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de]

THE CAMPAIGN OF SAXONY IN 1813.—REFLECTIONS.—ANALYSIS.—BATTLES OF LUTZEN AND WURTZEN.—NEGOTIATIONS.—BATTLES OF DRESDEN, LEIPSIC, HANAU, &c. Sept. 2.—To-day there was some horse-racing at the camp, at which one of the Emperor’s ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de [Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de]

DECLARATION OF SIR HUDSON LOWE TO COUNT DE LAS CASES. “In consequence of what was stated in the Governor’s decision relative to the affair of Count de Las Cases, a ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-23 | Author:John Buxton Marsden [Marsden, John Buxton]

FOOTNOTES: [I] Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New Zealand. By George French Angas, London, 1847. [J] Rations of spirits, as in the navy, would seem at this time ...
( Category: Europe February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Albert Jean Michel de Rocca, Anon [Albert Jean Michel de Rocca, Anon]

The districts of Spain occupied by the French were soon overrun by bands of partisans and guerillas, composed of the soldiers of dispersed armies, and the inhabitants of the plains ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:unknow

CHAPTER XVIII.— STATISTICAL DETAILS RESPECTING THE KINGDOM OF VALENCIA Statistical details respecting the kingdom of Valencia.—Organization of the country by the Marshal.—Ordinary contribution.—war contribution.—Tranquillity of the country.—Convocation of a Junta ...
( Category: other February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-30 | Author:Peter F Dembowski [Dembowski, Peter F]

FOUR Liberation and Emigration In Westertimke there were only a small number of Germans, and we were told to organize our own self-policing groups. We wore white armbands and carried ...
( Category: 20th Century February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-28 | Author:Horace Walpole, Denis Le Marchant, [Horace Walpole, Denis Le Marchant,]

* * * CHAPTER XX. Perplexity of the “Triumvirate.”—Lord Bute’s unsuccessful Manœuvres.—Lord Halifax and Mr. Grenville remonstrate with the King.—The Duchess of Bedford’s animosity to Lord Bute and the Princess ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-15 | Author:Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme [Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille]

The Duc de V---- was a nobleman of high rank and great wealth. He said to the King one evening at supper, "Your Majesty does me the favour to treat ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction February 27,2023 )