Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi
Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi
Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi
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VISIT TO LONDON. 113<br />
" '<br />
To the Duke of Dalmatia Napoleon<br />
entrusted the command of the army, when the<br />
defeat of the French at Yit<strong>to</strong>ria had placed<br />
the Peninsula at the mercy of the Duke of<br />
Welling<strong>to</strong>n.<br />
After a series of conflicts, which<br />
covered the British army and its able general<br />
with glory, Soult, finding the cause of his<br />
imperial master hopeless, gave up the contest<br />
and returned <strong>to</strong> Paris.<br />
" '<br />
Soult afterwards fought at Waterloo,<br />
but without that distinction which might have<br />
been expected from his old renown. After<br />
this battle, which for ever stamped the fate<br />
of Napoleon, and showed Welling<strong>to</strong>n the<br />
greatest general of the age,<br />
Soult retired <strong>to</strong><br />
the country, and lived for some years in seclui