Identifier: historyofallnati17wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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mained as acorps together ; all others were mingled witli tiie Frencli troops. ThePoles alone had a native leader, Prince Jozef Poniatowski (Fig. 33).In addition to 1372 pieces of artillery, and the ammunition columnspertaining thereto, six bridge equipments, a great siege train, toolsand other materials for engineers, the army took with them all imagin-able objects of which they might have need in the remote wilderness :glass, seeds of different kinds, forming imjdemcnts and mills, fire-engines and ice-spurs, provisions and medicines—nothing was forgotten.Equally comprehensive were the arrangements made for the subsistenceof these masses of men and animals. Berlin was required to furnish,from March 28 to September 1, quarters and food for 240,000 men and130,000 horses. The total number of the grand army was estimatedat a half-million infantry and SO.OOO cavalry. Of the cavalry one-h:dfwas attached to the infantry corps, and the remainder, divided into four 176 THE FALL OF NAPOLEON.
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