Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- 1 The New Charlemagne
- 2 Barbarians at the Gate
- 3 The Frankfurt Proposals
- 4 Napoleon and the French
- 5 The Left Bank
- 6 The Right Bank
- 7 The Lower Rhine
- 8 The Upper Rhine
- 9 The Middle Rhine
- 10 Alsace and Franche-Comté
- 11 The Vosges and the Saône
- 12 Lorraine
- 13 The Saar and the Moselle
- 14 Belgium
- 15 The Marne
- 16 Bourgogne, the Rhône, and the Aube
- 17 The Protocols of Langres
- Appendices
- APPENDIX A CLAUSEWITZ TO GNEISENAU
- APPENDIX B “REGARDING EACH SUGGESTION OVER WHAT SHOULD BE DONE IF THE ENEMY CROSSES THE RHINE” 31 OCTOBER 1813, BY RADETZKY
- APPENDIX C GNEISENAU TO ALEXANDER: Regarding the Great Question of the Day
- APPENDIX D GNEISENAU TO ALEXANDER, 24 NOVEMBER 1813
- APPENDIX E MÜFFLING'S PRO MEMORIA OF 29 DECEMBER 1813
- APPENDIX F THE FRANKFURT DECLARATION
- APPENDIX G BÜLOW'S PROCLAMATION TO THE DUTCH
- APPENDIX H BÜLOW'S PROCLAMATION TO THE BELGIANS
- APPENDIX I HIMBERT DE FLEGNY TO THE MAYORS OF THE VOSGES DEPARTMENT, 9 JANUARY 1814
- APPENDIX J GNEISENAU TO RADETZKY
- APPENDIX K GNEISENAU TO KNESEBECK
- APPENDIX L MACDONALD'S PROCLAMATION TO THE SOLDIERS OF THE 25TH MILITARY DISTRICT
- APPENDIX M NAPOLEON TO METTERNICH, 16 JANUARY 1814
- APPENDIX N VICTOR TO BERTHIER
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
APPENDIX H - BÜLOW'S PROCLAMATION TO THE BELGIANS
from Appendices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- 1 The New Charlemagne
- 2 Barbarians at the Gate
- 3 The Frankfurt Proposals
- 4 Napoleon and the French
- 5 The Left Bank
- 6 The Right Bank
- 7 The Lower Rhine
- 8 The Upper Rhine
- 9 The Middle Rhine
- 10 Alsace and Franche-Comté
- 11 The Vosges and the Saône
- 12 Lorraine
- 13 The Saar and the Moselle
- 14 Belgium
- 15 The Marne
- 16 Bourgogne, the Rhône, and the Aube
- 17 The Protocols of Langres
- Appendices
- APPENDIX A CLAUSEWITZ TO GNEISENAU
- APPENDIX B “REGARDING EACH SUGGESTION OVER WHAT SHOULD BE DONE IF THE ENEMY CROSSES THE RHINE” 31 OCTOBER 1813, BY RADETZKY
- APPENDIX C GNEISENAU TO ALEXANDER: Regarding the Great Question of the Day
- APPENDIX D GNEISENAU TO ALEXANDER, 24 NOVEMBER 1813
- APPENDIX E MÜFFLING'S PRO MEMORIA OF 29 DECEMBER 1813
- APPENDIX F THE FRANKFURT DECLARATION
- APPENDIX G BÜLOW'S PROCLAMATION TO THE DUTCH
- APPENDIX H BÜLOW'S PROCLAMATION TO THE BELGIANS
- APPENDIX I HIMBERT DE FLEGNY TO THE MAYORS OF THE VOSGES DEPARTMENT, 9 JANUARY 1814
- APPENDIX J GNEISENAU TO RADETZKY
- APPENDIX K GNEISENAU TO KNESEBECK
- APPENDIX L MACDONALD'S PROCLAMATION TO THE SOLDIERS OF THE 25TH MILITARY DISTRICT
- APPENDIX M NAPOLEON TO METTERNICH, 16 JANUARY 1814
- APPENDIX N VICTOR TO BERTHIER
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
Summary
The just punishment of the Heavens has reached the One who out of pride and insolence has devastated the world with a godless hand and destroyed everything that is sacred as soon as his devastating and bloody plan encountered any resistance. The army that he led was twice destroyed by the sword of revenge, and the time has now come when one need only say the name of Napoleon in order to provoke the curses of several millions of his subjects, whose fate he sacrificed without hesitation in his ruinous plans.
Belgians! By all that is dear to you, you are the only people who still carry the yoke of the madman, whose pride and insolence have devastated the world. The only people, whose brothers, sons, and relatives he can rip unopposed from your arms in order to lead them to the slaughter house and allow them to perish in disgrace and misery, wherein his foolish anger will inevitably overthrow him. You are the only people, whose hopes of regaining your former prosperity and the vested wealth of your economy under a just and paternal government have not wavered. Do you still want to bear the chains of slavery? Should the example of your neighbors and friends, who again enjoy all the advantages of the beauty and glory of past ages, not inflame you to noble emulation?
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- The Fall of Napoleon , pp. 564 - 565Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007