. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. Wellington. THE EMPIRE. 383. The Retreat from Moecow. CHAPTER EMPIRE, CONTINUED. The feignd retreat, the nightly ambuscade, The daily harass, and the right delayd, The long privation of the hoped supply, The tentless rest beneath a frozen sky, The stubborn wall that mocks the leaguers art, And palls the patience of his baffled heart, Of these they had not dreamd. BxHOIf. 1 We mentioned in the ,ast chapter that Napoleonreturned from Spain without completing, as he in- ,^Jtended, and probably might have a
. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. Wellington. THE EMPIRE. 383. The Retreat from Moecow. CHAPTER EMPIRE, CONTINUED. The feignd retreat, the nightly ambuscade, The daily harass, and the right delayd, The long privation of the hoped supply, The tentless rest beneath a frozen sky, The stubborn wall that mocks the leaguers art, And palls the patience of his baffled heart, Of these they had not dreamd. BxHOIf. 1 We mentioned in the ,ast chapter that Napoleonreturned from Spain without completing, as he in- ,^Jtended, and probably might have accomplished, theentire subjugation of that country. The cause of this changein his plans was the news that reached him of the probabilityof a new war with Austria, which still smarted under the de-gradation of its late defeat, and was eager to retrieve thepower and possessions of which it had been deprived. Thewar was begun and ended in one campaign; it was com- 384 HISTORY OF FRANCE. menced without the form of a declaration, and the combatantsexhausted all the wiles of diplomacy to throw on each otherthe bl
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