Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred In and Near Leipzig - Immediately Before, During, And Subsequent To, The Sanguinary Series Of Engagements Between The Allied Armies Of The Frenc
Shoberl, Frederic, 1775-1853
English
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NARRATIVE
OF
THE MOST REMARKABLE EVENTS
WHICH OCCURRED
IN AND NEAR LEIPZIG,
IMMEDIATELY BEFORE, DURING, AND SUBSEQUENT TO, THE SANGUINARY SERIES
OF ENGAGEMENTS BETWEEN
The Allied Armies Of The French,
FROM THE
14th TO THE 19th OCTOBER, 1813
Illustrated with
MILITARY MAPS,
EXHIBITING THE MOVEMENTS OF THE RESPECTIVE ARMIES.
COMPILED AND TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN
FREDERIC SHOBERL.
"Suave etiam belli certamina magna tueri
Per campos instructa, tuà sine parte pericli."
Lucret. Lib. ii. 5.
EIGHTH EDITION.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR R. ACKERMANN, 101, STRAND,
By W. CLOWES, Northumberland court, Strand.
1814.
[Price Five Shillings.]
[v]PREFACE.
After a contest of twenty years' duration, Britain, thanks to herinsular position, her native energies, and the wisdom of her counsels,knows scarcely any thing of the calamities of war but from report, andfrom the comparatively easy pecuniary sacrifices required for itsprosecution. No invader's foot has polluted her shores, no hostile handhas desolated her towns and villages, neither have fire and swordtransformed her smiling plains into dreary deserts. Enjoying a happyexemption from these misfortunes, she hears the storm, which is destinedto fall with destructive violence upon others, pass harmlessly over herhead. Meanwhile the progress of her commerce and manufactures, and herimprovement in the arts, sciences, and letters, though liable, fromextraordinary circumstances, to temporary obstructions, are sure andsteady; the channels of her wealth are beyond the reach of foreignmalignity; and, after an unparalleled struggle, her vigour and herresources seem but to increase with the urgency of the occasions thatcall them forth.
Far different is the lot of other nations and of other countries. Thereis scarcely a region of [vi]Continental Europe but has in its turn drunkdeep within these few years of the cup of horrors. Germany, the theatreof unnumbered contests—the mountains of Switzerland, which for ages hadreverberated only the notes of rustic harmony—the fertile vales of the
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