. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. communication and destroy the bridges across theDanube. The troops on the French centre were obliged tohurry off to prevent this, and the army was weakened fora moment, but not long. Napoleon determined to make theArchduke Charles, who in person commanded this attackon the French left, return, not by following him, but bybreaking his centre; and he turned his heavy batteriesagainst this portion of the army, and followed them by acavalry attack, which routed the enemy. At the same timetheir left was broken, and the troops which had been en-gaging it were free to
. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. communication and destroy the bridges across theDanube. The troops on the French centre were obliged tohurry off to prevent this, and the army was weakened fora moment, but not long. Napoleon determined to make theArchduke Charles, who in person commanded this attackon the French left, return, not by following him, but bybreaking his centre; and he turned his heavy batteriesagainst this portion of the army, and followed them by acavalry attack, which routed the enemy. At the same timetheir left was broken, and the troops which had been en-gaging it were free to hurry off against the Austrian right,which was trying to reach the bridges, and which were be-ing held in check with difhculty at Essling. As soon as thearchduke saw what had happened to his left and centre heretired, preferring to preserve as much as possible of hisarmy in good order. The French did not pursue. The battlehad cost them too heavily. But if the Austrians escapedfrom Wagram with their army, and if their opponents. THE LITTLE CORPORAL. This statue of Napoleon in the costume of thePetit Caporal, from the chisel of Seurre, wasplaced on the column of the Place Vendome, onJuly 28, 1835. It succeeded on the pedestalthe white flag of the Bourbons, which in itsturn had replaced the original statue of Napo-leon en Cesar Romain, by Chaudet. An in-teresting detail, unknown to most Parisians, isthat the equestrian statue of Henri IV. on thePont Neuf was cast with the bronze of ChaudetsNapoleon. When Napoleon III. ascended thethrone, he replaced the Petit Caporal ofSeurre (whose decorative appearance he did notconsider asses dynastique ) by a copy ofChaudets Cesar, made by the sculptor Dru-mont. That figure still crowns the summit of thecolumn, which was re-erected after the desecra-tion by the Commune.—A. D. 218 TALLEYRANDS TREACHERY 219 gained little more than the name of a victory, they were toodiscouraged to continue the war, and the emperor sued forpeace. This peace wa
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