"If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek."

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Source : John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1855). “The History of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.326

John Stevens Cabot Abbott

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