Today's installment concludes Napoleon Crushes Prussia,our selection from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte by Sir Walter Scott published in 1839.If

The total destruction of the Prussian army was followed by the surrender of the fortresses which defend that country, some of them ranking among the

The French accounts state that twenty thousand Prussians were killed and taken in the course of this fatal day.Continuing Napoleon Crushes

Still the Prussian monarch, who seems now to have taken the command upon himself, endeavoring to supply the want of professional experience by

The French advanced, in three divisions, upon the dislocated and extended disposition of the large but ill-arranged Prussian army.Continuing

The united force of the Prussian army, with its auxiliaries, amounted to one hundred fifty thousand men, confident in their own courage, in the rigid