Note 209 — Chapter LXII
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"When Napoleon heard that Ney had just reappeared, he leaped and shouted for joy, and exclaimed, 'I have then saved my eagles! I would have given three hundred millions from my treasury sooner than have lost such a man.'"—Ségur, tom. ii., p. 268; Jomini, tom. iv., p. 190.