Antecedents of this kind, of equally bad augury, had already been remarked in the campaign of 1809."] [Footnote 12138: De Segur, III., 474 .-- Thiers, XIV., 159.

(One month after crossing the Niemen one hundred and fifty thousand men had dropped out of the ranks.)] [Footnote 12139: Bulletin 29 (December 3, 1812).] [Footnote 12140: "De Pradt, Histoire de l'Ambassade de Varsovie," p.219.] [Footnote 12141: M.de Metternich, I., 147 .-- Fain, "Manuscript," of 1813, II., 26.

(Napoleon's address to his generals.) "What we want is a complete triumph.

To abandon this or that province is not the question; our political superiority and our existence depend on it.

"-- II., 41, 42.