CAPTURE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from War and Peace 1 by Leo Tolstoy
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1 It is not difficult to capture a fortress but it is difficult to win a campaign.
2 The men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the occupation of the town of Wischau and the capture of a whole French squadron.
3 Despite news of the capture of the fleches, Napoleon saw that this was not the same, not at all the same, as what had happened in his former battles.
4 Something vague and confused, which he could not at all account for, had come over him with the capture of that officer and the blow he had dealt him.
5 Austrian troops that had escaped capture at Ulm and had joined Kutuzov at Braunau now separated from the Russian army, and Kutuzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces.
6 This battle, which consisted in the capture of a French squadron, was represented as a brilliant victory over the French, and so the Emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over the battlefield, believed that the French had been defeated and were retreating against their will.
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