- EAN13
- 9782366591026
- Éditeur
- Le Mono
- Date de publication
- 10/02/2016
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9782366591026
- Fichier EPUB, libre d'utilisation
- Fichier Mobipocket, libre d'utilisation
- Lecture en ligne, lecture en ligne
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The battle of Waterloo is an enigma. It is as obscure to those who won it as
to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic; Blucher sees nothing in it
but fire; Wellington understands nothing in regard to it. Look at the reports.
The bulletins are confused, the commentaries involved. Some stammer, others
lisp. Jomini divides the battle of Waterloo into four moments; Muffling cuts
it up into three changes; Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than
his on some points, seized with his haughty glance the characteristic outlines
of that catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the
other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled state
they fumble about. It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, a crumbling
of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of kings, drew all
the kingdoms after it--the fall of force, the defeat of war. (Victor Hugo)
to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic; Blucher sees nothing in it
but fire; Wellington understands nothing in regard to it. Look at the reports.
The bulletins are confused, the commentaries involved. Some stammer, others
lisp. Jomini divides the battle of Waterloo into four moments; Muffling cuts
it up into three changes; Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than
his on some points, seized with his haughty glance the characteristic outlines
of that catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the
other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled state
they fumble about. It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, a crumbling
of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of kings, drew all
the kingdoms after it--the fall of force, the defeat of war. (Victor Hugo)
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