...tions and to capture that one which wished to cut off their retreat, a fate from which Saint-Cyr escaped by a miracle. It is recollected how the same General Weyrother, who had wished to surround Napoleon at Rivoli, designed to do the same at Austerlitz, in spite of the severe lesson. which he had received without profit to him. It is known how the left of the Allies, wishing to outflank Napoleon's ...