[Footnote 29:  Ibid.; also Metternich, “Mems.,” vol. i., ch. iii.  For Prussia’s protest to Napoleon, which pulverized the French excuses, see Garden, vol. ix., p. 69.]

[Footnote 30:  Schoenhals; Segur, ch. xvi., exculpates Murat and Ney.]

[Footnote 31:  Schoenhals, p. 73.  Thiers states that Dupont’s 6,000 gained a victory over 25,000 Austrians detached from the 60,000 who occupied Ulm!]

[Footnote 32:  Marmont, vol. ii., p. 320; Lejeune, “Memoirs,” vol. i., ch. iii.]

[Footnote 33:  Thiers, bk. xxii.  During Mack’s interview with Napoleon (see “Paget Papers,” vol. ii., p. 235), when the Emperor asked him why he did not cut his way through to Ansbach, he replied, “Prussia would have declared against us.”  To which the Emperor retorted:  “Ah! the Prussians do not declare so quickly.”]

[Footnote 34:  “Alexandre I et Czartoryski,” pp. 32-34.]

[Footnote 35:  See these terms compared with the Anglo-Russian treaty of April 11th, 1805, in the Appendix of Dr. Hansing’s “Hardenberg und die dritte Coalition” (Berlin, 1899).]

[Footnote 36:  Haeusser, vol. ii., p. 617 (4th. edit.); Lettow-Vorbeck, “Der Krieg von 1806-1807,” vol. i., ad init.]

[Footnote 37:  For the much more venial stratagem which Kutusoff played on Murat at Hollabrunn, see Thiers, bk. xxiii.]

[Footnote 38:  Lord Harrowby, then on a special mission to Berlin, reports (November 24th) that this appeal of the Czar had been “coolly received,” and no Prussian troops would enter Bohemia until it was known how Prussia’s envoy to Napoleon, Count Haugwitz, had been received.]

[Footnote 39:  Thiers says December 1st, which is corrected by Napoleon’s letter of November 30th to Talleyrand.]

[Footnote 40:  Thiebault, vol. ii., ch. viii.; Segur, ch. xviii.; York von Wartenburg, “Nap. als Feldherr,” vol. i., p. 230.]

[Footnote 41:  Davoust’s reports of December 2nd and 5th in his “Corresp.”]

[Footnote 42:  Segur, Thiebault, and Lejeune all state that Napoleon in the previous advance northwards had foretold that a great battle would soon be fought opposite Austerlitz, and explained how he would fight it.]

[Footnote 43:  Thiebault wrongly attributes this succour to Lannes:  for that Marshal, who had just insulted and challenged Soult, Thiebault had a manifest partiality.  Savary, though hostile to Bernadotte, gives him bare justice on this move.]

[Footnote 44:  Harrowby evidently thought that Prussia’s conduct would depend on events.  Just before the news of Austerlitz arrived, he wrote to Downing Street:  “The eyes of this Government are turned almost exclusively on Moravia.  It is there the fate of this negotiation must be decided.”  Yet he reports that 192,000 Prussians are under arms ("F.O.,” Prussia, No. 70).]

[Footnote 45:  Jackson, “Diaries,” vol. i., p. 137.]

[Footnote 46:  “Lettres inedites de Talleyrand,” pp. 205-208.]