![]() I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. What I have done up to this is nothing.Published in the autobiography of French general Eugène de Beauharnais. Speech to his troops in Egypt (21 July 1798) Variant translation: "Soldiers, from the summit of yonder pyramids forty centuries look down upon you.".From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.During the early phase of the Battle of Bautzen.So…Bessieres lived like Bayard he died like Turenne.Letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs, Passariano (26 September 1797), as quoted in Napoleon as a General (1902) by Maximilian Yorck von Wartenburg, p. ![]() ![]() The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.
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