When Alexander learned that Poros was approaching, he met him in front of the line with a few of the Companions. Halting his horse, he...

A King’s Private Secretary is a personage of higher order than the current usage of the term might imply. He never “takes a letter” or...

I had to return to my family at Chátenay to answer for my desperate action to my grandfather the Maréchal de Ségur. Arriving in the early...

But I must first mention the sentiment which used to call forth Scipio’s severest criticism. He often said that no one ever gave...

Napoleon had been arrested but escaped from imprisonment. On his way to Paris he encountered an army of his former troops: