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The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], "Beautiful in Death." (search)
Rivalry of Murat and Davoust.
Napoleon had just placed Davoust under the orders of Murat, who commanded the vanguard of the army, and the two generals had advanced as far as Slawkow; it was the 27th of August. On the 28th, Murat pushed the enem carried the heights which Davoust should have swept with his artillery.
On the following day the two lieutenants of Napoleon met in his presence; the King of Naples, strong in the feeling that he had justified his temerity by success — the Princ well aimed.
Murat had, intentionally, emphasized the words, "the Prince of Eckmuhl does not like to obey any one," and Napoleon had slightly contracted his brows.
Davoust, who felt that he had been assailed upon a weak point, and for a fault of wh ier, as I have — if he is willing to remember that he wears a sabre, and I likewise — I give him."--
At these words Napoleon, until now indifferent to this quarrel, at once raised his head, measured Murat with a glance which caused the words to <