(EN) M. Adolphe Thiers, translated by D. Forbes Campbell and H. W. Herbert, History of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon, IV, Filadelfia, J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1864, p. 243.
«whilst it was almost impossible to drag the gun-carriages through the half-frozen mud
(regarding November 20, 1812)»