Show MEN OF THE FIRST REPUBLIC type of the soldiers with whom tho the great napoleon swept all ail europe another contribution to lana is ie the collection of memoirs and aid letters of the army surgeon burgeon baron who was with the egyptian expedition one day he found eugene asleep in the sand band in the desert of Haman Raman leh teh wake up eugene wake uple up this repose does not suit either your name or profession A man os of war must be without re rest stand and without pity on another occasion napoleon had condemned several of bf his bis pet grenadiers Grenad Grena lera diers to death tor for looting and murder hla his reflections made to are worth my aly sentence on the grenadiers Grena diers ot of the thirty second regiment cost me dear but I 1 was obliged to do it A 4 commander ln in chalef muad have a ire tre roen dous power how can you reason question the right of a man to whom the state sometimes entrusts the lives of a hundred thousand troops to punish such serious offe as aa he deems fit I 1 convicted these grenadiers Grena diers before punishing hing when I 1 seized antoine by th the 0 collar and said to him come miserable wretch cho and let me confront you with your accomplice ho he was confounded but what ment men I 1 fellows to win a 0 battle by themselves perhaps the corporal has won some you did not see how they died like caesars caesara Cae sars showing their affection tor for me one of their comrades went to drink with them in prison and remarked perhaps there was some truth in the charge else bonaparte would not net have condemned you be silent st lerit was the answer you do not know what you are saying baying he be was do de calved again as hp he often has been before but no matter lot let us drink to his health and when the time came for the exe execution cuilon they marched steadily out and stood calmly before the firing party saying this to la how the grenadiers Grena diers of the thirty second d die le afterward the officers came to see me but I 1 would not receive them but faith I 1 pity those upon whom the thirty second may fall on the first occasion that pr presents resents itself for them to wipe out the remembrance of all this |