Note 360 — NAPOLEONIC RULE.
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Morts should be read Meurt, perhaps, as referring to Napoleon, who showed great delight, it is said, when he found that Wellington intended to fight him. It cannot refer, as Le Pelletier would have it to do, to the celebrated mot of Cambronne or General Michel, as it has been proved that it was never uttered at all, but manufactured by a wit après coup.