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"Cette armee russe que l'or de l'Angleterre a transportee des

extremites de l'univers, nous allons lui faire eprouver le meme

sort-(le sort de l'armee d'Ulm)." * He remembered these words in

Bonaparte's address to his army at the beginning of the campaign,

and they awoke in him astonishment at the genius of his hero, a

feeling of wounded pride, and a hope of glory. "And should there

be nothing left but to die?" he thought. "Well, if need be, I

shall do it no worse than others."

* "That Russian army which has been brought from the ends of the

earth by English gold, we shall cause to share the same fate-(the

fate of the army at Ulm)."