"Thank you. But I'm better and I don't need the water." Nelberg said stopping his coughs. "You can go with Reinhard and depart to chase that cannons. Keep an eye on the lieutenant. He and his men had been trained as Cuirassiers (**) and it is possible that they had the temptation to engage the enemy cavalry in combat. Just kill as much artillerymen as you can catch, spike their cannons and return to the fortress."
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The sun was setting and Erick went up the stairs to see the final results of their efforts.
They had been playing the cat and mouse with the enemy cavalry helped by the cannons from the fortress which tried to hit any enemy unit great enough to attack Reinhard's twenty dragoons.
Some of the Southern …show more content…
The artilleryman shrugged. "I was wounded at Ulm (***). It wasn't serious, but I was left behind with the soldiers who guard the prisoners while Napoleon went on the campaign. As you can imagine there was a lot of Imperial prisoners after Ulm and a number of them were Italians. I had a lot of free time and used it making a linguistic study of the different northern Italian dialects."
"Linguistics is a strange hobby for an artilleryman."
"It would be more correct to say that artillery is a strange occupation for a linguistic." Nelberg retorted. "I was born in an Arendelle's noble family and his members were expected to join Arendelle's army, but I wasn't the heir so I was allowed to spent the early years of my life studying languages."
"There's a long way until being in Ulm fighting for Napoleon. How did you such a journey?" Erick asked.
"The best way to distract a old man's attention is to encourage him to talk about his youth. But it won't work with me. Tell me. Why is an Imperial fighting for Arendelle and bear a recommendation from Princess Anna? I'm sure that your story is more interesting than mine and more important in the current state of …show more content…
"I suppose that I should accept that as payment for the moment." Nelberg took a deep breath. "When the French revolution began, I was in Paris paying a visit to a French colleague and I went to the meeting of the National Constituent Assembly (****) which abolished feudalism and I went into rapture."
"Did you found a group of idealistic men creating a perfect republic?" Erick asked with a bit of irony in his voice.
"Most of them were idealistic, although they would heal of that soon." Nelberg wryly replied. "Others were just schemers who only seek his own profit, a few of them blood thirsty assassins, and others megalomaniacs which combined the worst of all the options. But almost everybody were fully aware that they were starting a new era in the history of the world which would be different to anything which had existed before and were bold enough to go towards it. "
Erick smiled. "If they wanted to build something different, Napoleon was very similar to a King."
The old man mouth twisted. "History repeats itself. The roman republic chose a dictator in times of trouble and he became emperor. All Europe was against us and we chose a consul who become Emperor of France. Sometimes trying to protect what we love the most, we become what we hate the
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The sun was setting and Erick went up the stairs to see the final results of their efforts.
They had been playing the cat and mouse with the enemy cavalry helped by the cannons from the fortress which tried to hit any enemy unit great enough to attack Reinhard's twenty dragoons.
Some of the Southern …show more content…
The artilleryman shrugged. "I was wounded at Ulm (***). It wasn't serious, but I was left behind with the soldiers who guard the prisoners while Napoleon went on the campaign. As you can imagine there was a lot of Imperial prisoners after Ulm and a number of them were Italians. I had a lot of free time and used it making a linguistic study of the different northern Italian dialects."
"Linguistics is a strange hobby for an artilleryman."
"It would be more correct to say that artillery is a strange occupation for a linguistic." Nelberg retorted. "I was born in an Arendelle's noble family and his members were expected to join Arendelle's army, but I wasn't the heir so I was allowed to spent the early years of my life studying languages."
"There's a long way until being in Ulm fighting for Napoleon. How did you such a journey?" Erick asked.
"The best way to distract a old man's attention is to encourage him to talk about his youth. But it won't work with me. Tell me. Why is an Imperial fighting for Arendelle and bear a recommendation from Princess Anna? I'm sure that your story is more interesting than mine and more important in the current state of …show more content…
"I suppose that I should accept that as payment for the moment." Nelberg took a deep breath. "When the French revolution began, I was in Paris paying a visit to a French colleague and I went to the meeting of the National Constituent Assembly (****) which abolished feudalism and I went into rapture."
"Did you found a group of idealistic men creating a perfect republic?" Erick asked with a bit of irony in his voice.
"Most of them were idealistic, although they would heal of that soon." Nelberg wryly replied. "Others were just schemers who only seek his own profit, a few of them blood thirsty assassins, and others megalomaniacs which combined the worst of all the options. But almost everybody were fully aware that they were starting a new era in the history of the world which would be different to anything which had existed before and were bold enough to go towards it. "
Erick smiled. "If they wanted to build something different, Napoleon was very similar to a King."
The old man mouth twisted. "History repeats itself. The roman republic chose a dictator in times of trouble and he became emperor. All Europe was against us and we chose a consul who become Emperor of France. Sometimes trying to protect what we love the most, we become what we hate the