History of the Consulate And the Empire of France Under Napoleon volume 13 And
History of the Consulate And the Empire of France Under Napoleon volume 13 And
Adolphe Thiers
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A captain of engineers, named Papigny, at the head of thirty sappers attacked this gate with hatchets, and as it resisted their efforts seized a scaling ladder with June, 1811] CONSULATE AND THE EMPIRE. ] 31 the intention of passing over it, but at that moment he fell, struck by a ball, and fell breathing the name of his mother. In the meantime Revel taking advantage of the circumstance that in this place there was no fosse, applied ladders against the escarpment, and the sappers and the grenad...iers scaling the wall leaped into the fort, and opened the gate to the column. At the same moment Miocque's column, advancing to the breach and finding it impracticable, planted their sca- ling ladders, which were too short, until Meunier, a sergeant of sappers and miners, lending his strong shoulders to the voltigeurs, they were enabled to ascend, and entering the fort, to assist their comrades. This method of entrance was, however, both too slow and too fatal, and another party having sought another way, an officer of engineers, named Vacani, fortunately discovered it in the extremity of the aqueduct which supplied POlivo with water, and which was only protected by palisades.
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