The Glory of the Eag

Just this once, good fortune... just this once... The Emperor prayed silently in his heart.,Although the front line troops were retreating piecemeal, the entire battlefield soon crumbled with them. Even the emperor himself could not stop this rout.,After arriving in Austria, on July 22, 1818, his maternal grandfather, Emperor Francis I of Austria, issued a decree cancelling his Napoleonic name and replacing it with the Germanized "Franz" as his new name; simultaneously, he revoked his titles of Roman King and all other honors, instead bestowing upon him the title of Duke of Lechstedt.。