This is a lofty hill which towers above the town of Jena and the narrow winding vale of the saale; while its other slopes, to the north and west, rise above and dominate the broken and irregular plateau on which Hohenlohe's force was encamped.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
Had the Prussians attacked his weary regiments in force, they might easily have hurled them into the saale.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
In vain did his Marshals remind him that he was dangerously far from France; that, if Austria drew the sword, she could cut him off from the Rhine, and that the saale, or even the Rhine itself, would be a safer line of defence.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose