Crossword-Solution: MARMONT 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Nicholas B., sub-lieutenant of 1808, lieutenant of 1813 in the French army, and for a short time _Officier d'Ordonnance_ of Marshal Marmont; afterward captain in the 2d Regiment of Mounted Rifles in the Polish army--such as it existed up to 1830 in the reduced kingdom established by the Congress of Vienna--I must say that from all that more distant past, known to me traditionally and a little _de visu_, and called out by the words of the man just gone away, he remains the most incomplete figure.

But with regard to these two points, we must observe that night is also a great means of protection, and it is only seldom that circumstances favour the expectation of a successful result from a night attack, as on March 10, 1814, at Laon,(*) where York against Marmont gives us an example completely in place here.

Had he known that he would have come upon Buonaparte in person, then, naturally, preponderating reasons would have determined him to put off his revenge to another day: but he hoped to revenge himself on Marmont, and instead of gaining the reward of his desire for honourable satisfaction, he suffered the penalty of his erroneous calculation.

CHAPTER VII The French commander Nicole, surnamed the “Pilgrim,” on account of a journey he had once made to Mecca, had spent six months at Janina with a brigade of artillery which General Marmont, then commanding in the Illyrian provinces, had for a time placed at Ali’s disposal.

This has been done especially where they deal with what the writer did not himself see or hear, the part of the Memoirs which are of least value and of which Marmont's opinion has just been quoted.