Macdonald : one of Napoleon's gênerais

92. le bassin de l'Tonne, ' the watershed of the Yonne/ a tributary of the Seine.

zoz-2. un dur à cuire, ' a tongh 'un ' (familiar), lit. ' hard to cook,' ùe. not the sort of man to allow himself to be roughly handled.

103. nous tournions, * we were moving round,' as we say * to tum a position, the enemy's flank, etc.*

Z05. à nous refaire, ' recruiting our strength.'

Z07. à part, 'aside.'