 | Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl - 1840 - 476 páginas
...superior to Lombardy. How were they to be persuaded of this when they could get neither bread nor wine 1 We encamped on immense quantities of wheat, but there was neither mill nor oven in the country. The apprehensions of the soldiers increased daily, and rose to such a pitch that a great number of them... | |
 | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - 1889 - 506 páginas
...even superior to Lombardy ; bow were they to be persuaded of this when they oould get neither breud nor wine? We encamped on immense quantities of wheat,...they baked under the ashes. Many parched the wheat iu a pan, after which they boiled It. This was the best way to use the grain ; but, after all, it was... | |
 | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - 1890 - 504 páginas
...when they could get neither bread nor wine? We encamped on immense quantities of wheat, bat there \vas neither mill nor oven in the country. The biscuit...stones and to make cakes, which they baked under the nshes. Many parched the wheat in a pan, after which they boiled it. This was the best way to use the... | |
 | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - 1891 - 502 páginas
...soldiers constantly regretted the luxuries of Italy. In vain were they assured that the country wai* the most fertile in the world, that it was even superior...between two stones and to make cakes, which they baked nnder the ashes. Many parched the wheat in a pan, after which they boiled it. This was the best way... | |
 | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Ramsay Weston Phipps - 1892 - 508 páginas
...Hebrews wandering in the wilderness complained, and angrily asked Moses for the onions and flesh-pots of Egypt, the French soldiers constantly regretted...the country. The biscuit brought from Alexandria had Ions? been exhausted ; the soldiers were even reduced to bruise the wheat between two stones and to... | |
 | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - 1895 - 508 páginas
...to Lombardy ; how were they to be persuaded of this when they could get neither bread nor wine? AVe encamped on immense quantities of wheat, but there...between two stones and to make cakes, which they baked r.nder the ashes. Many parched the wheat in a pan, after which they boiled it. This was the best way... | |
 | Montgomery B. Gibbs - 1895 - 588 páginas
...the whole army presenting the appearance of a flock of sheep. " " We encamped, ' ' says Napoleon , " on immense quantities of wheat, but there was neither mill nor oven in the country." The men bruised the grain between stones and baked it in the ashes or parched and boiled it. The army soon... | |
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French soldiers' constantly regretted the luxuries of Italy. In vain were they assured that the country was the most fertile in the world, that it was even superior to Lombardy; how were they to be persuaded of this when they could get neither bread nor... 