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Excerpt from Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and Near Leipzig: Immediately Before, During, and Subsequent To, the Sanguinary Series of Engagements Between the Allied Armies and the French, From the 14th to the 19th October, 1813 From documents transmitted to the publisher by friends at Leipzig, have been selected the narra tives contained in the following sheets, which were written by eye-witnesses of the facts there related. The principal object of their publication is not so much to expose the atrocities of Gallic ru ians, as to awaken the sympathies and call forth the humanity of the British nation. Like that glorious luminary, whose genial rays vivify and invigorate all nature, Britain is looked up to by the whole civilized world for support against injustice, and for solace in distress. To her liberality the really unfortunate have never yet appealed in vain and, with this experience before his eyes, the publisher confidently antici pates in behalf of his perishing countrymen the wanted exercise of that, godlike quality, which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."