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Taltarzac725 08-11-2013 03:24 PM
Saturday August 10, 2013 Word Jumble answers.
 
Casino.
Lemur.
Forgo.
Pantry.

http://www.uclick.com/client/sea/tmj.../10/index.html

Taltarzac725 08-11-2013 03:29 PM
Monte Carlo's museums.
 
Though they may not offer lemurs, Monaco has a museum of Napoleon Bonaparte souvenirs from the collection of a relative of his. You could use any winnings picked up in the Monte Carlo casino to check out more educational tourist spots. Museum of Napoleon Souvenirs - Prince

If Napoleon is not to your liking, you could forgo it as there are always antique cars as well as a tour of the palace which might even include a pantry. http://www.palais.mc/monaco/palais-p...-cars.589.html http://www.palais.mc/monaco/palais-p...king.2250.html

Taltarzac725 08-12-2013 07:40 AM
Monday Word Jumble with Sunday's answers.
 
Jumble - Houston Chronicle

http://www.uclick.com/client/sea/tmj.../12/index.html

Proxy.
Mohair.
Gripe.
Tyrant.

Taltarzac725 08-12-2013 08:08 AM
https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2590M/lots/1083

This wax portrait with mohair of Napoleon and Josephine might have sold by proxy but it still depicts the "tyrant" Bonaparte when seen by his many enemies who griped at his many victories.

Taltarzac725 08-13-2013 07:48 AM
Havoc, lizard, cabin, number.
 
Jumble - Houston Chronicle

They are doing quite a number at Stoned Lizard on Napoleon. http://stonedlizard.com/post/2012/05...on-borntoparty At least, Bonaparte did not have to worry about the perils of modern camping even if he had a cabin. http://stonedlizard.com/post/2013/08/05/camping Modern camping does wreck havoc on trying to play FunTrivia. http://www.funtrivia.com/?ref=Taltarzac


http://www.uclick.com/client/sea/tmj.../13/index.html

Taltarzac725 08-14-2013 06:35 AM
Tuesday Word Jumble answers.
 
Leave.
Zesty.
Jogger.
Magpie.

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/c.../comic/Jumble/

http://www.uclick.com/client/sea/tmj.../13/index.html

http://www.uclick.com/client/sea/tmj.../14/index.html

Taltarzac725 08-14-2013 06:47 AM
Jogging where Napoleon strolled.
 
Paris on the Run: A Guide for the Jogging Traveler « France « France Revisited – Life in Paris, Travel in France

If you are a jogger in Paris, you can go where Napoleon Bonaparte took moonlight strolls with his Josephine. You wonder if he needed more zesty exercise at times given all the time he spent directing his troops at the many battles and wars he was in from 1805 until his defeat in Russia. He probably did not get much leave during all that warfare and would much much akin to a magpie during duck hunting season. Very few hunters would be actually aiming at him during these battles, but he could still get hit. http://www.napoleonsims.com/battles/battles.htm

Taltarzac725 08-15-2013 02:32 PM
Brawn, musket, inland, joint.
 
Jumble - Houston Chronicle


Wednesday's Word Jumble answers:

Brawn.
Joint.
Inland.
Musket.

Taltarzac725 08-15-2013 02:38 PM
The History of Napoleon Bonaparte, by John Gibson Lockhart.

There is a 1829 book on Napoleon viewable from the Internet. This is the book listed above in the link by John Gibson Lockhart. It probably covers the man's brawn, his use of the musket, his inland attack into Egypt, as well as various other ventures he had including those in which had joint control with Empress Josephine.

Lockhart writes about Napoleon's getting the news of the defeat at Trafalgar:

Quote:
Buonaparte, when he heard of this mighty discomfiture, which for ever put an end to all his visions of invading England, is said to have lost that possession of himself, which he certainly maintained when the catastrophe of Aboukir was announced to him at Cairo. Yet arrogance mingled strangely in his expressions of sorrow.—"I cannot be everywhere," said he to the messenger of the evil tidings—as if Napoleon could have had any more chance of producing victory by his presence at Trafalgar, than Nelson would have dreamed of having by appearing on[Pg 220] horseback at Marengo. In his newspapers, and even in his formal messages to the senate at Paris, Buonaparte always persisted in denying that there had been a great defeat at Trafalgar, or even a great battle. But how well he appreciated the facts of the case was well known to the unfortunate Admiral Villeneuve. That brave officer, after spending a short time in England, was permitted to return to France on his parole. He died almost immediately afterwards at Rennes: whether by his own hand, in the agony of despair, as the French Gazette asserted, or assassinated, as was commonly believed at the time, by some of the blood-hardened minions of Fouché's police, is a mystery not yet cleared up; and, perhaps, never destined to be so until the day comes in which nothing shall be hid.

Taltarzac725 08-16-2013 07:18 AM
8/15/2013 Word Jumble answers.
 
Jumble | Seattle Times Newspaper

Venue.
Tract.
Hybrid.
Module.

Taltarzac725 08-16-2013 07:24 AM
8/16/2013 Word Jumble for those who cannot wait.
 
Jumble | Seattle Times Newspaper

Taltarzac725 08-16-2013 09:05 AM
Napoleon and Russia.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 727129)
Jumble | Seattle Times Newspaper

Venue.
Tract.
Hybrid.
Module.
Bonaparte sometimes picked the wrong venue to fight and wound up with something between a victory and a defeat. A hybrid in the win/loss column. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Eylau The Battle of Eylau was a module for one of these hybrids and also became a tract for further defeats of Napoleon as it showed that Bonaparte was not invincible at war involving large standing armies.

Quote:
After 14 hours of continuous battle, there was still no result but enormous loss of life. Authorities[who?] differ greatly, estimates of Russian casualties range from about 15,000 to 20,000 killed or wounded and 3,000 soldiers, 23 cannon and 16 colors captured.[16] The French lost somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000[17] with 5 Eagles lost. Chandler suggests as many as 25,000 French casualties, although conceding it is impossible to be certain.[18] The French had gained possession of the battlefield — nothing but a vast expanse of bloodstained snow and frozen corpses — but they had suffered enormous losses and failed to destroy the Russian army.

It was left to Marshal Ney to sum up. Riding over the fields of Eylau the following morning, Ney said, Quel massacre! Et sans résultat ("What a massacre! And without result").

Eylau was not the decisive victory characteristic of Napoleon's earlier campaigns, prolonging the war with Russia, until his decisive victory at the Battle of Friedland forced Tsar Alexander I to the peace table at Tilsit.

Taltarzac725 08-17-2013 07:21 AM
Await, ground, glade, indigo.
 
Jumble - Houston Chronicle


Napoleon had to await better ground to take on the Russians. http://www.napolun.com/mirror/napole..._uniforms.html Legend has it that he also wanted his troops to start wearing the indigo after seeing the bloody white uniforms which were at the general slaughter around every glade that occurred at the Battle of Eylau.

Quote:
1806 as a result of the British naval blockade there was a shortage of indigo used for dyeing cloth and so Napoleon ordered the introduction of a white uniform for his line infantry. According to Decree of April 25th 1806 the following regiments of line infantry were assigned white coats: 3rd, 4th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 21st, 22nd, 24th, 25th, 27th, 28th, 32nd, 33rd, 34th and 36th Line. (Journal Militaire Vol I 1806, pp 176-178)
The next decree mentioned all line regiments.

Napoleon expressed his disapproval and only 18 of the 112 regiments were issued with these. This is said that it happened after he saw bloodstained white uniforms at Eylau. But to me this reason sounds a little bit strange. The battle at Eylau was fought on a snowy, winter day and soldier wore the warm long greatcoat. If he was wounded the greatcoat, and not the white jacket, was "marked". Secondly, white uniforms didn't bother the Austrians, they wore them all the time. It didn't bother the Saxon soldiers neither. I guess the white color reminded Napoleon the old regime of previous century and therefore he disapproved it.

In 1807 the importing of indigo resumed and the dark blue coats were reinstated.

Taltarzac725 08-17-2013 08:21 AM
If you cannot wait, Saturday's Word Jumble answers...
 
....will be posted on Sunday; but, you can play the current timed game from The Seattle Times website.

Jumble | Seattle Times Newspaper

Taltarzac725 08-18-2013 08:07 AM
Tiger, admit, strand, puzzle.
 
Jumble | Seattle Times Newspaper

Saturday's Word Jumble answers:

Strand.
Puzzle.
Admit.
Tiger.


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