Excerpt from Napoleon's Addresses: Selections From the Proclamations, Speeches and Correspondance of Napoleon Bonaparte After a battle he stated the results to them, thus giving them a tacit recogni tion of their importance. The explanation was one that all understood; it was clear and explicit, and bristled' with figures. Your common man grasps numbers. They are the bullets of speech and sink in like lead. When Napoleon rattled a volley of numbers at them Soldiers, in fifteen days you have gained six victories, taken twenty-one stands of colors, fifty-five pieces of cannon, and several fortresses, and conquered the richest part of Pied mont. You have made fifteen hundred prisoners, and killed or wounded ten thou sand men they understood, and glowed with pride. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.