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... Vandamme · · 19,000 99 4th Gérard · 16,000 99 6th Lobau 10,500 99 Guard 21,000 Reserve Cavalry , Grouchy Train of the army • 13,500 3,500 128,000 Of these Corps the 1st and 2nd were on the open Belgian frontier , the 3rd near the ...
... Vandamme · · 19,000 99 4th Gérard · 16,000 99 6th Lobau 10,500 99 Guard 21,000 Reserve Cavalry , Grouchy Train of the army • 13,500 3,500 128,000 Of these Corps the 1st and 2nd were on the open Belgian frontier , the 3rd near the ...
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... Van- damme had been a true ' man of war , ' in Napoleon's favourite phrase , having been constantly serving in command of troops ever since he led a division in this same Belgian district , twenty - two years before , against the Duke ...
... Van- damme had been a true ' man of war , ' in Napoleon's favourite phrase , having been constantly serving in command of troops ever since he led a division in this same Belgian district , twenty - two years before , against the Duke ...
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... Vandamme , and gives no hint that Napoleon himself doubted Gérard's being ready . In truth the early movement began only with the left , where Reille , who had lain in front of Solre , went off at the ap- pointed hour , following a road ...
... Vandamme , and gives no hint that Napoleon himself doubted Gérard's being ready . In truth the early movement began only with the left , where Reille , who had lain in front of Solre , went off at the ap- pointed hour , following a road ...
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... Vandamme's corps lay in front , and Vandamme had had no orders ! The solitary officer who bore them had fallen on the way , and been badly hurt , and Vandamme lay tranquilly in bivouac until Lobau's corps , which had started at four ...
... Vandamme's corps lay in front , and Vandamme had had no orders ! The solitary officer who bore them had fallen on the way , and been badly hurt , and Vandamme lay tranquilly in bivouac until Lobau's corps , which had started at four ...
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... Vandamme . Ac- cording to some accounts ( as Charras ' , whom Hooper appears here to follow ) , the retreat of the Prussians was forced by the arrival of the Young Guard , hur- ried up by a side road under the direction of Napoleon ...
... Vandamme . Ac- cording to some accounts ( as Charras ' , whom Hooper appears here to follow ) , the retreat of the Prussians was forced by the arrival of the Young Guard , hur- ried up by a side road under the direction of Napoleon ...
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