But what does this signify to England?  She has gained her object. 
   We are no longer at Boulogne, and her subsidy will be neither more
   nor less.

   Of a hundred thousand men who composed that army, sixty thousand are
   prisoners.  They will replace our conscripts in the labours of
   agriculture.

   Two hundred pieces of cannon, the whole park of artillery, ninety
   flags, and all their generals are in our power.  Fifteen thousand
   men only have escaped.

Soldiers!  I announced to you the result of a great battle; but, thanks to the ill-devised schemes of the enemy, I was enabled to secure the wished-for result without incurring any danger, and, what is unexampled in the history of nations, that result has been gained at the sacrifice of scarcely fifteen hundred men killed and wounded.

   Soldiers! this success is due to your unlimited confidence in your
   Emperor, to your patience in enduring fatigues and privations of
   every kind, and to your singular courage and intrepidity.

   But we will not stop here.  You are impatient to commence another
   campaign!

   The Russian army, which English gold has brought from the
   extremities of the universe, shall experience the same fate as that
   which we have just defeated.

In the conflict in which we are about to engage the honour of the French infantry is especially concerned.  We shall now see another decision of the question which has already been determined in Switzerland and Holland; namely, whether the French infantry is the first or the second in Europe.

   Among the Russians there are no generals in contending against whom
   I can acquire any glory.  All I wish is to obtain the victory with
   the least possible bloodshed.  My soldiers are, my children.

This proclamation always appeared to me a masterpiece of military eloquence.  While he lavished praises on his troops, he excited their emulation by hinting that the Russians were capable of disputing with them the first rank among the infantry of Europe, and he concluded his address by calling them his children.

The second campaign, to which Napoleon alleged they so eagerly looked forward, speedily ensued, and hostilities were carried on with a degree of vigour which fired the enthusiasm of the army.  Heaven knows what accounts were circulated of the Russians, who, as Bonaparte solemnly stated in his proclamation, had come from the extremity of the world.  They were represented as half-naked savages, pillaging, destroying and burning wherever they went.  It was even asserted that they were cannibals, and had been seen to eat children.  In short, at that period was introduced the denomination of northern barbarians which has since been so generally applied to the Russians.  Two days after the capitulation of Ulm Murat obtained the capitulation of Trochtelfingen