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Excerpt from Letters From Spain, Italy, and Germany, During a Residence on the Continent of Four Years
Murat, Bonaparte's first general of cavalry. The troops, though generally much less men than ours, are active and well-disciplined; the grenadiers are tall, thin, and muscular, with moustache, and lofty bearskin caps, which give them a fierce and im posing aspect. They went through their evolutions with great precision and celerity, often at a running pace, which gives them, it is said, great advantage over the Austrians, their great opponents, who, though larger men, are comparatively slow in their movements. Murat seems an excited, fierce-looking fellow - he has the reputation of being a dashing officer of cavalry. The expression of his coun tomance appeared to me vulgar and repulsive, his manners full of coarseness and brusquerie. His face of a deep red colour, is pitted with small-pox, and reminded me of the description of the Emperor Domitian, one of Rome's greatest tyrants, who, when tired of the pastime of murdering Roman citizens, amused himself in his palace killing the flies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
