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Show j FATEFUL LETTER "M. I Tb Sicslneaae at That Letter ta JTa- poleon's Ittoteorie Cuwr. ' The first one who divrweml Napoleon'' i peniut was Marbrcuf in th College ' Militaire. Tim battle of Marengo wan tho first won by lion. Bonaparte; upoa this Melas yielded his place in Italy to him. Later, one of but beat general wae Mortier, whoso opposite, Napoleon' he trtiyer, was Moreuu. Murat wa the first ' ' victim of hi political strategy. Man i Louisa shared the tuno of bis highest fortune; Mo-trow became the scene of bin fall tcttd Mctteruich vanquished bim on the battlefield of diplomacy. Six of hU generals ( Mim-e.ui, Mortier, Mariuont, Macdonald, Murat anil Monro Mon-ro v) an J twenty-six division general had tha initial "M" to their name. Maret, Duke of lUaeano, wan hi truest aillierer. Montalivet w& hi milliliter and hi flrsl chancellor waa a Montesquieu. Hi laxt ' residence in Franca was Slalmaisnn. Tha captain' name who took him to St. Helena He-lena was M Ait land, and hi companion there were Montholon and his servant ' M.trchand. Tha wife of Napoleon HI w Moo- tij and hia most intimate fiifcnd wo Moniv. Tha greatest triumph for him and his army during the Crimean war ; WAit the taking of Malattilland Miuwlon. Tho iiiuue Montehsllo and Magenta appear in the foreground bi Uhan war. 1 Later it I MneMahon, who played oneof 1 the moat important role during tha . r'rajico-Gerinau war aud who waa ap- pointed Duke of M.ijvnta by Napoleon. ( Then we come, to the epuch when Na- . iIimiii enteral MaiUand and shortly after drove the AiHlrian out of Mart-i Mart-i ano. His greatest enemy was Masinl. Aft-r the tattle of Slfrlno on the Mitv. cio, Napoleon rinsed the gatr tf Man tun, Tln,n followed the iwul alTatr of Mexico and Kiupnror Maximilian. In the year l!7i Met was una of the) ' aims of the French operation, but being driven hark ovrr tlie Moselle the destiny of Napoleon found a fatal conclusion at Sil.ui, on tha Mi.-lle. Then followed the capitulation of Met, but all his disaster dis-aster was brought about by tha wisdom of one of tha greatest strategist of our timeaand thetiernian fatherland, Moltke, ' From the German. |