Excerpt from Narrative of the War in Germany and France: In 1813 and 1814The following pages will be found to record, in an unbroken narrative, all those important military Operations which came under my immediate notice during the campaigns of 1813 and 1814. I felt that this could be done without compromising my own official responsibility, or breaking through the regard and consideration due to others. That which the soldier's eye has witnessed, surely the soldier's pen may fairly describe for, as I have already stated in my Advertisement to a former work, I was constantly in the. Habit of writing detailed statements of every occurrence. I did this, not merely in fulfilment of my public duty, but for the information of that individual to whose wise and dignified policy, not Great Britain only, but every nation of the civilised world, is, in my esti.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.