“At dawn I had the assembly beaten; at broad daylight I had the drummers beat to arms, and started once more on our route, telling them that the Emperor was going to have all the deserters arrested. I marched until noon, and, as we emerged from a wood, I came upon a herd of cows grazing in a meadow. My soldiers immediately took their bowls, and went off to milk the cows, and we had to wait for them. When the evening came, they would camp before nightfall, and every time we came across any cows, we had to stop. It may be imagined that this was not much fun for me. At”
Quotes by Jean-Roch Coignet
Jean-Roch Coignet
Jean-Roch Coignet was a French soldier whose military career spanned the tumultuous years of the Consulate and the First French Empire, culminating in his participation at the Battle of Waterloo. Thro...