and patriotism of their
vanquished foes. Murat lost no occasion to evince this feeling; and
sent eight colonels of his own division to carry the pall at General
Schmettau's funeral, who was interred with all the honors due to one who
had been the companion of the Great Frederick himself.

Soult, Bernadotte, Augereau, Ney, and Davoust, with the several corps
under their command, pursued the routed forces with untiring hostility.
In vain did the King of Prussia address a supplicating letter asking for
a suspension of arms. Napoleon scarcely deigned a reply, and ordered the
advanced guard to march on Berlin.

But a year before and he had issued his royal mandates from the palace
of the Caesars; and he burned now to date his bulletins from the palace
of the Great Frederick. And on the tenth day after the battle of Jena
the troops of Lannes's division bivouacked in the plain around Potsdam.
I had joined my brigade the day previous, and entered Berlin with them
on the morning of the 23d of October.

The preparations for a triumphal entry were made on the day before; and
by noon the troops approached the capital in all the splendor of full
equipment. First came the grenadiers of Oudinot's brigade,--one of
the finest corps in the French army; their bright yellow facings
and shoulder-knots had given them the _sobriquet_ of the _Grenadiers
jaunes_: they formed part of Davonst's force at Auerstadt, and were
opposed to the Prussian guard in the greatest shock of the entire day.
After them came two battalions of the _Chasseurs a pied_,--a splendid
body of infantry, the remnant of four thousand who went into battle
on the morning of the 15th. Then followed a brigade of artillery,
each gun-carriage surmounted by a Prussian standard. These again were
succeeded by the red lancers of Berg, with Murat himself at their
head; for they were his own regiment, and he felt justly proud of such
followers: the grand duke was in all the splendor of his full dress, and
wore a Spanish hat, looped up, with an immense brilliant in front, and
a plume of ostrich feathers floated over his neck and shoulders. Two
hundred and forty chosen men of the Imperial Guard marched two and
two after these, each carrying a color taken from the enemy in battle.
Nansouty's cuirassiers came next; they had suffered severely at Jena,
and were obliged to muster several of their wounded men to fill up the
gaps in their squadrons. Then there were the horse artillery briga