. The life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Rev. and enl. with portraits. existence, prepared long in advance, byhis own orders. As soon as possible was arranged theEmperors bed-chamber, across the door of whichRustan slept, and adjoining it was another for theofl&cers on duty. Dinner occupied less than twentyminutes, for in the field Napoleon ate little, and thatrapidly. By seven in the evening he was asleep. Atone in the morning the commander-in-chief arose,entered his office, where the secretaries were already atwork, found all reports from the divisions ready at hishand, and then, pacing the floor,
. The life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Rev. and enl. with portraits. existence, prepared long in advance, byhis own orders. As soon as possible was arranged theEmperors bed-chamber, across the door of whichRustan slept, and adjoining it was another for theofl&cers on duty. Dinner occupied less than twentyminutes, for in the field Napoleon ate little, and thatrapidly. By seven in the evening he was asleep. Atone in the morning the commander-in-chief arose,entered his office, where the secretaries were already atwork, found all reports from the divisions ready at hishand, and then, pacing the floor, dictated his despatchesand the orders for the coming day. There is an acceptedtradition that he often simultaneously composed anduttered in alternate sentences two different letters, sothat two secretaries were busy at the same time inwriting papers on different topics. The orders, whencompleted and revised, were handed to Berthier. Bythree in the morning they were on their way, and reachedthe separate corps fresh from headquarters just before iJ^Pi;; j\\. NAPOLEON NAPOLEON BONAPARTE AS FIRST CONSUL From a iiiarMc bai-re)ief bruuyby Jobcph Doiiapa ^T. 36-37] THE WAR WITH PRUSSIA 427 the soldiers set out on their march. It was by suchperfect machinery that accuracy in both command andobedience was assured. Colonel Scharnhorst of the Prussian staff had pre-pared in advance a plan whereby his sovereigns forcesshould cross the Thuringian hills and secure their posi-tion a fortnight before the arrival of the French, inorder to take the offensive, and use their fine cavalryto advantage on the plains below. The plan was re-jected, for the King still feebly hoped that his ultimatummight be accepted. When at last the reluctant monarchset out for the seat of war to join Brunswick, he tookwith him a numerous suite from the sanguine and evenexultant court party. On their arrival at headquartersan antipodal divergence between the ideas of the Kingsfollowers and those of the conservative Bru
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