Letter 129 — CXXIX
Original French
Schœnbrunn, le 16 juin 1809.
Je t’expédie un page pour t’annoncer que, le 14, anniversaire de Marengo, Eugène a gagné une bataille contre l’archiduc Jean et l’archiduc Palatin, à Raab, en Hongrie; qu’il leur a pris trois mille hommes, plusieurs pièces de canon, quatre drapeaux, et les a poursuivis fort loin sur le chemin de Bude.
Musean translation
Machine-assisted Musean English translated from the French of the 172 Napoleon letters selected from Tancrède Martel, ed., Œuvres littéraires de Napoléon Bonaparte, tome 1 (Albert Savine, Paris, 1888). French Wikisource contributors supplied the scan-backed transcription: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Livre:Bonaparte_-_Œuvres_littéraires,_tome_1,_1888.djvu (page histories credit contributors). The transcription is CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/; this adapted text and translations are shared under the same license. Extraction removes markup and editorial notes; selected transcription repairs were checked against print images.
Schönbrunn, June 16, 1809.
I am sending you a page to announce that on the 14th, the anniversary of Marengo, Eugène won a battle against Archduke John and the Archduke Palatine at Raab in Hungary; that he took three thousand men, several cannon, and four flags from them, and pursued them a great distance along the road to Buda.
Plain English translation
Independent machine-assisted Plain English translation from the 1888 Martel French edition, not a historical English translation. French Wikisource contributors supplied the scan-backed transcription: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Livre:Bonaparte_-_Œuvres_littéraires,_tome_1,_1888.djvu (page histories credit contributors). The adapted transcription and translation are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Extraction removes markup and editorial notes and makes documented transcription repairs. French-source model review is not human specialist certification or a complete scan collation.
Schönbrunn, June 16, 1809.
I am dispatching a page to tell you that on the 14th, Marengo's anniversary, Eugène defeated Archduke John and the Archduke Palatine in a battle at Raab in Hungary. He took three thousand of their men, several guns and four flags, and pursued them a long way on the road to Buda.
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