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The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot

автор Marcellin de Marbot · 73 частей · about 17 hours 26 minutes чтения

Привет, меня зовут Финн, и я помогу тебе понять эту книгу.

Вот она, объяснённая так, будто тебе 10 лет:

Марбо был французским кавалеристом, который прошел через войны Наполеона и выжил, чтобы рассказывать истории столь яркие, что читатели до сих пор их цитируют. Он атакует, шутит, получает ранения, теряет лошадей и каким-то образом сохраняет бодрость. Одно честное предупреждение: его английский переводчик Оливер К. Кольт говорит в собственном введении, что он вырезал некоторые места, исправил другие и переписал части, которым не мог поверить. Поэтому наслаждайтесь этими мемуарами такими, какими Кольт нам их дал, живыми, но отредактированными.

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Translator's Introduction by Oliver C. Colt5 min Chapter 1: Origins of My Family. My Father Joins the Bodyguard. The De Certain Family. Life at Lariviere. Episode in Infancy8 min Chapter 2: Outbreak of Revolution. My Father's Attitude. He Rejoins the Army. I Go to Mlle. Mongalvi. My Life as a Boarder8 min Chapter 3: My Father Is Posted to Toulouse. He Takes Me with Him. The Convoy of Aristocrats. Life at Toulouse. I Am Taken to Soreze11 min Chapter 4: Life at Soreze. Early Hardships. Visit of Representative of the People11 min Chapter 5: I Join My Family in Paris. My Father Is Given Command of the 17th Division in Paris. He Refuses to Join with Sieyes and Hands the Command to Lefebvre13 min Chapter 6: My Father Is Posted to Italy. How My Career Is Begun. I Become a Hussar3 min Chapter 7: My Father Leaves. Meeting with Bonaparte at Lyon. An Adventure on the Rhone. The Cost of a Republican Banquet. I Am Presented to My Commanding Officer21 min Chapter 8: Arrival at Nice. My Mentor Pertelay. I Become a True Hussar. I Join the "Clique". My First Duel. We Rustle Some Cattle. The "Clique"22 min Chapter 9: How I Get Immediate Promotion. The Capture of 17 Enemy Hussars14 min Chapter 10: Campaign in Piedmont. General Macard. Capture of Enemy Cannons. I Am Promoted to Sous-Lieutenant. I Become Aide De Camp to My Father17 min Chapter 11: Retreat of the Right Wing of the Army to Genoa. My Father Wounded. The Siege. My Friend Trepano. Death of My Father. Famine and Fighting19 min Chapter 12: Episodes in the Siege. Fate of Austrian Captives10 min Chapter 13: Napoleon Crosses the St. Bernard. Massena Yields. Marengo. I Return to My Family. My Extreme Prostration11 min Chapter 14: I Am Temporary Aide De Camp to Bernadotte. We Go to Tours5 min Chapter 15: At Brest and Rennes. I Am Posted to the 23rd Chasseurs, in Portugal. Journey from Nantes to Salamanca. We Form the Right Wing of the Spanish Army. Return to France16 min Chapter 16: On the Road from Bayonne to Toulouse. The Inspection16 min Chapter 17: The Events at Rennes. My Brother Adolphe Is Involved and Is Sent to Prison. Death of My Brother Theodore22 min Chapter 18: The School at Versailles. My Mother's Brothers10 min Chapter 19: Preparations for Invasion of Britain. I Become Aide De Camp to Augereau4 min Chapter 20: Augereau17 min Chapter 21: From Bayonne to Brest. 1804. Pichegru. Death of Duc D'enghien. Bonaparte Becomes Emperor13 min Chapter 22: 1805. Institution of Legion of Honour. Camp at Boulogne. I Am Made Lieutenant. Death of My Brother Felix. Russia and Austria Declare War16 min Chapter 23: The Army Heads for the Rhine. Mission to Massena. Jellachich Surrenders. The Hungarian Colonel25 min Chapter 24: The March to Vienna. The Battle at Dirnstein. Lannes and Murat Bluff Their Way Across the Danube14 min Chapter 25: Hollabrunn. I Bring the Flags Captured at Breganz to the Emperor. The Danger of a White Lie14 min Chapter 26: The Prussian Ambassador. Austerlitz. I Save a Russian Sergeant24 min Chapter 27: Meeting of the Emperors. Return to My Unit. Darmstadt and Frankfurt9 min Chapter 28: Mission to Prussia. Situation in Prussia9 min Chapter 29: State of Prussian Army. Wurtzberg. Saalefeld and Death of Prince Louis. Augereau and His Former Companions15 min Chapter 30: Jena. The Cure. Auerstadt. The Behaviour of Bernadotte16 min Chapter 31: Demoralisation of Prussians. Origin of the House of Rothschild. With Duroc to the King of Prussia. Graudentz. The Army at the Vistula20 min Chapter 32: Crossing of the Ukra. Various Encounters. Cantonments on the Banks of the Vistula13 min Chapter 33: 1807. Made Captain. Eylau. Destruction of Augereau's Corps14 min Chapter 34: My Part in the Battle of Eylau. My Mare Lisette. I Escape Death by a Miracle. Return to Warsaw and Paris19 min Chapter 35: Missions for the Emperor. I Join Marshal Lannes. Hostilities Resumed June 11th10 min Chapter 36: Battle of Friedland. I Escape from Dangers. Treaty of Tilsitt17 min Chapter 37: Mission to Dresden. An Unwitting Smuggler. An Incident at Mainz. Paris and La Houssaye11 min Volume 2, Chapter 1: My Marriage. Farewell to Massena7 min Volume 2, Chapter 2: Biography of Massena24 min Volume 2, Chapter 3: 1812. Appointed to 23rd Chasseurs. The Intrigues of Count Czernicheff14 min Volume 2, Chapter 4: War Becomes Inevitable. Warnings Given to Napoleon. The Imperial Court at Dresden. Faulty Composition of Army9 min Volume 2, Chapter 5: Review by the Emperor. The Army at the Nieman. Notes on Historians of the 1812 Campaign. Bernadotte's Attitude. The Poles11 min Volume 2, Chapter 6: Crossing of Nieman. Entry Into Wilna. I Meet the Enemy. The 23rd at Wilkomir. Problems in Lithuania. The Advance15 min Volume 2, Chapter 7: The Russian Army Split. Bagration Escapes from Jerome. Fruitless Attack on Dvinaberg. I Defeat Two of Wittgenstein's Units. We Leave the Grande Armee. Composition of 2nd Corps21 min Volume 2, Chapter 8: Jakobovo and Kliastitsoui. I Am Wounded11 min Volume 2, Chapter 9: The Marsh at Sebej. Retreat. The Ford at Sivotschina. Death of Koulnieff. A Last Farewell17 min Volume 2, Chapter 10: Fresh Withdrawal by Oudinot. Marches and Countermarches. Retreat to Polotsk. General St. Cyr. Oudinot Is Wounded. St. Cyr Takes Over19 min Volume 2, Chapter 11: Surprise Attack on the Enemy. Various Incidents. We Settle in Polotsk19 min Volume 2, Chapter 12: The Advance of the Grande Armee. Capture of Smolensk. The Battle for Moscow14 min Volume 2, Chapter 13: Bad News from Spain. Rostopschine. The Fire of Moscow. Revival of the Russian Army. Koutousoff's Treachery8 min Volume 2, Chapter 14: Decision to Retreat. Napoleon Forced to Change Route. I Become a Colonel. Bravery of Ney as Rearguard15 min Volume 2, Chapter 15: Situation of 2nd Corps. Bavarian Demoralisation. Mission to Count Lubenski14 min Volume 2, Chapter 16: The Austrians Defect. The Defence of Polotsk. Wittgenstein Captured but Escapes. The Bavarians Leave Us. We Join Marshal Victor14 min Volume 2, Chapter 17: Oudinet Returns and Separates from Victor. Grave Situation of the Army. Loss and Recapture of Borisoff. The Bridge Over the Beresina Burnt. We Collect Much Booty from Borisoff14 min Volume 2, Chapter 18: Corbineau Rejoins 2nd Corps. The Enemy Are Deceived15 min Volume 2, Chapter 19: Loss of Partouneaux's Division. The Catastrophe at the Beresina. 2nd Corps Forms the Rearguard. I Am Wounded Again17 min Volume 2, Chapter 20: Intense Cold. Thieving in the Army. Arrival at Wilna. Using Sledges. Arrival at Kovno. Crossing the Vistula15 min Volume 2, Chapter 21: Causes of Our Disaster11 min Volume 2, Chapter 22: Worrying General Situation. Incompetent Administration. Question the Retention of Fortresses. The State of France. I Go to the Depot at Mons17 min Volume 2, Chapter 23: New Hostilities on the Elbe. Battles of Lutzen and Bautzen. An Armistice. I Rejoin the Regiment. The State of the Army. Napoleon Should Negotiate14 min Volume 2, Chapter 24: The Armistice Broken. Treachery of Jomeni. A Painful Check14 min Volume 2, Chapter 25: The Battle of Dresden. Vandamme at Kulm15 min Volume 2, Chapter 26: Oudinot and Macdonald Both Suffer Defeat. The Plateau of Jau‰r. We Recross the Katzbach16 min Volume 2, Chapter 27: Forces Concentrate at Dresden. The Baskirs13 min Volume 2, Chapter 28: The Battle of Leipzig17 min Volume 2, Chapter 29: Vain Attempt at Armistice. Battle of 18th October. Bernadotte Fights Against Us. Indecisive Result of Fighting13 min Volume 2, Chapter 30: A Critical Situation. Lack of Preparation for a Retreat. The Allies Enter Leipzig. Premature Destruction of the Bridge Over the Elster22 min Volume 2, Chapter 31: I Gather the Remnants of Our Army at the Elster. The Retreat to the Saale. Erfurt. The Army Reached Hanau16 min Volume 2, Chapter 32: The Battle of Hanau. The Retreat Continues18 min Volume 2, Chapter 33: The Last Events of 1813. Dresden Surrendered. Disasters in Spain. The Situation in Italy and the Tyrol11 min Volume 2, Chapter 34: I Am Nominated Commandant of the Department of Jemmapes. A Difficult Position. Our Troops Are Recalled to Paris18 min Volume 2, Chapter 35: Napoleon's Last Stand. Resistance Becomes Impossible. Inadequate Measures Taken to Defend Paris. Belated Return of the Emperor to the Capital. Paris Should Have Been Held. Underhand Plotting Against Napoleon12 min