Every Retreat is compared to that.

A valiant feat, after all exaggerations.

A thing well done, say military men;--'nothing to object, except that the troops were so ruined;'-- and the most unmilitary may see, it is the work of a high and gallant kind of man.

One of the coldest expeditions ever known.
There have been three expeditions or retreats of this kind which were very cold: that of those Swedes in the Great Elector's time (not to mention that of Karl XII.'s Army out of Norway, after poor Karl XII.
got shot); that of Napoleon from Moscow; this of Belleisle, which is the only one brilliantly conducted, and not ending in rout and annihilation.
"The troops rest in Eger for a week or two; then homeward through the Ober-Pfalz:--'go all across the Rhine at Speyer' (5th February next); the Bohemian Section of the Oriflamme making exit in this manner.

Not quite the eighth man of them left; five-eighths are dead: and there are about 12,000 prisoners, gone to Hungary,--who ran mostly to the Turks, such treatment had they, and were not heard of again." [_Guerre de Boheme,_ ii.