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  • Corbineau immediately crossed, and by the 24th had reported his interesting discovery to Marshal Oudinot, who lost no time in informing the Emperor.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • Corbineau immediately crossed, and by the 24th had reported his interesting discovery to Marshal Oudinot, who lost no time in informing the Emperor.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • Next, a small force of cavalry and light infantry, commanded by Corbineau, were to cross the ford on horseback or rafts and set up a covering position on the west bank opposite Studienka.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • Next, a small force of cavalry and light infantry, commanded by Corbineau, were to cross the ford on horseback or rafts and set up a covering position on the west bank opposite Studienka.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • Generals d'Hautpoult, Corbineau, and Boursier were mortally wounded at

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • General Corbineau a few moments after received an order from his

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • Corbineau, former quarters for the cavalry, very well reconstructed by the Service de Santé, for sick soldiers; our nurses are doing service there; generous gifts have enabled us to procure a small motor which carries water to the three stories, and we have been able to install baths for the typhoid patients.

    The Living Present Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • Before the Emperor heard of the surrender, he had marched to Fismes, and had detached Corbineau to occupy Rheims, evidently with the aim of cutting Blücher's communications with Schwarzenberg, and opening up the way to Verdun and Metz.

    The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898

  • General Corbineau, finding from some peasants that the river was fordable three leagues above Borisoff, brought the news to Oudinot, who forthwith prepared to cross there.

    The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898

  • Generals d'Hautpoult, Corbineau, and Boursier were mortally wounded at Eylau; and it seems to me I can still hear the brave d'Hautpoult saying to his Majesty, just as he dashed off at a gallop to charge the enemy: "Sire, you will now see my great claws; they will pierce through the enemy's squares as if they were butter" An hour after he was no more.

    Recollections of the private life of Napoleon Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 1895

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