The Glory of the Eag

And today, after repeated attacks still failed to break through the lines laid out by British commander Arthur Wellesley, he began to sense that he could not offer victory to France again.,Emperor Napoleon slowly closed his eyes, savoring the pain that he could no longer escape in this life.,After arriving in Austria, on July 22, 1818, his maternal grandfather, Emperor Francis I of Austria, issued a decree cancelling his Napoleonic name and replacing it with the Germanized "Franz" as his new name; simultaneously, he revoked his titles of Roman King and all other honors, instead bestowing upon him the title of Duke of Lechstedt.。