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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Notwithstanding the discipline introduced by Mare- chal Suchet in his army corps, he could not prevent a spontaneous outbreak of confusion and disorder at the capture of Tarragona. According to some military men of undoubted sincerity, the intoxication of victory in that instance strongly resembled pillage, which the marshal was able to repress promptly. When order was re-established, each regiment encamped in its own quarters, and the commanding officer of the garrison appointed, the military administrators made their appearance. Thereupon the town assumed a mongrel aspect. Although the military organization of the place was entirely on the French plan, they left the Spaniards at liberty to follow their national inclinations, in petto. That first moment of pillage, which lasted for a period of time difficult to determine with accuracy, had, like all sublunary events, a cause that may readily be pointed out. There was in the marshal's army a regiment made up almost entirely of Italians and commanded by a certain Colonel Eugene, a man of extraordinary gallantry, a second Murat, who, because he had taken to the trade of war too late, received no Grand-Duchy of Berg, nor Kingdom of Naples, nor bullets at Pizzo. Although he obtained no crown, he was very advantageously placed for receiving bullets, and it would not be surprising if he had come in contact with one or two. The original basis of this regiment was the remnant of the Italian legion. That legion was to Italy what the colonial battalions are to France. Its depfit, on the island of Elba, had served as a place of honorable exile both for scions of noble families who aroused fears for their future, and for those great men who have missed their aim and whom society brands in advance with the hot iron, dubbing them mauvais suj...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217228237 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217228232 |
| Weight | 0.54 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 160 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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