. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. n order fromParis to the Rhine in half an hour, a distance that the postrequired four days to cover. At last in early October, Prussia delivered her ultimatum,which, when received, left Napoleon only one day to quitGerman soil. Already, however, his vanguard was across theBavarian frontier and moving toward the enemy. The war had begun, with 120,000 Prussians and Saxonsmoving southwestward toward the communications of theGrand Army, while the Grand Army itself, 190,000 strong,moved northward from Bavaria to place itself between th
. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. n order fromParis to the Rhine in half an hour, a distance that the postrequired four days to cover. At last in early October, Prussia delivered her ultimatum,which, when received, left Napoleon only one day to quitGerman soil. Already, however, his vanguard was across theBavarian frontier and moving toward the enemy. The war had begun, with 120,000 Prussians and Saxonsmoving southwestward toward the communications of theGrand Army, while the Grand Army itself, 190,000 strong,moved northward from Bavaria to place itself between theAllies and their base. One fatal difference lay in the seemingparadox that the shorter legged Frenchmen covered moreground in a day than the longer-legged Germans. Whereeach army was marching to cut the others communications theone that cut first would surely win. The tradition had comedown to the Prussians that from twelve to fifteen miles was along enough march for an army to make in a day. The Frenchunder Lannes, however, marched sixty-five miles in fifty. The Conqueeoe, by Meissonier
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