After Waterloo: Reminiscences Of European Travel 1815-1819, By Major W. E Frye













































































































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entitled Vertraute Briefe aus Berlin, and in it the author distinctly
declares that the discipline observed by - Page 39
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This Work Is Entitled Vertraute Briefe Aus Berlin, And In It The Author Distinctly Declares That The Discipline Observed By

The French troops during the occupation of Berlin was highly strict and praiseworthy, and that the few excesses that took

Place were committed by the troops of the Rhenish Confederation; and he adds that the inhabitants preferred having a French soldier quartered on them to a Westphalian, Bavarian or Wuertembergher. Further, the troops that behaved with the greatest oppression and insolence towards the burghers were those belonging to a corps composed of native Prussians, raised for the service of Napoleon by the Prince of Isenburg.[12] In his recruiting address the prince invites the Prussian youth to enter into the service of the invincible Napoleon, and tells him that to the soldier of Napoleon everything is permitted. The regiment was soon fitted up and the soldiers began to put in practice in good earnest the theory of the affiche. They committed excesses of all sorts; and one officer in particular behaved so brutally and infamously to a poor tailor on whom he was quartered, and to whom, before he entered the French service, he was under the greatest obligations, that General Hulin, the commandant of the place at Berlin during the French occupation, was obliged to cashier him publicly on the parade and to cause his epaulettes to be torn from his coat in order to mark the disgust and indignation that he and all the French officers felt at the base ingratitude of this man.

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