pontoon bridge

“The golden bridge for the departing lover I have always, I hope, provided when it became necessary,” he says.

The engineer officer charged with preparing the line of retreat reported that the one bridge across the Elster was not sufficient.

It was a direct lie to tell the Austrian commander that an armistice had been arranged and the bridge ceded to the French.

The ruse by which he and Lannes captured the bridge below Vienna was discreditable no doubt from the point of view of morality.

"There is a bridge up yonder, monsieur," returned the servant, thankful to have the conversation changed.

They crossed the bridge and rode up the gently rising, bare, and rugged ground towards Condillac.