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Title: Bernadotte, the first phase, 1763-1799
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Barton, D. Plunket (Dunbar Plunket), Sir, 1853-1937
Subjects: Charles XIV John, King of Sweden and Norway, 1763-1844
Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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pproved of his planof action as strongly as any of his colleagues. On the 19th September Bernadotte and Marceaucontinued to retire slowly and steadily, in order tocover the retreat of the rest of the army, and took uppositions near Altenkirchen. Marceau, with his re-serve of cavalry, bivouacked behind the centre of hisposition. It was Marceaus last bivouac ; for it washere that he was shot by a Tyrolese soldier, who firedat him from the cover of a neighbouring wood. Bernadotte was one of the first to gallop to theside of his young comrade. Marceau-Sargent, thebrother-in-law and the biographer of Marceau, thusdescribes the last conversation between him andBernadotte/ Marceau, taking Bernadottes hand,said : Go, my comrade, to perish for others1 faults.We shall never meet again. But do not let me see,before I die, my troops forced to retire in disorder.The mere idea kills me. No, my dear friend,replied Bernadotte, you will not have that a Marceau, par Parfait, 390. , Marceau-Sargent, 47.
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sept. 1796) THE DEATH OF MARCEAU 167 chagrin. So long as the troops are under your eyes,they will defend themselves with courage. Becalm. The retreat has been carried out in goodorder. a Marceau had to be left on the field of battle,and was treated with respect and tender care by theAustrians. He died upon 21st September. TheArchduke Charles sent his remains to Neuwied escortedby Austrian cavalry, and asked to have notice of theday of his funeral, so that the Austrian army mightjoin in paying respect to his memory. Albert Soreltruly says that Marceaus funeral recalls the finesttraits of the ages of chivalry, for the same respectwas paid to the same virtues. h Bernadotte, at a later date, finding himselfmilitary governor of Coblenz, had the funeral urnopened, and sent some of Marceaus ashes to hissister Emira, who distributed them to members ofhis family. In 1892 these ashes were still preservedin several places/ In the week preceding Marceaus death, Jourdanhad proposed to unify the co

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