--- title: How Napoleon Crossed the Alps. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees description: How Napoleon Crossed the Alps., «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: About a hundred years ago there lived a great gen-er-al whose name was Na-po'le-on Bo'na-parte. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / How Napoleon Crossed the Alps. # How Napoleon Crossed the Alps. How Napoleon Crossed the Alps. of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 16 sentences and 247 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/1/) — About a hundred years ago there lived a great gen-er-al whose name was Na-po'le-on Bo'na-parte. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/2/) — He was the leader of the French army; and France was at war with nearly all the countries around. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/3/) — He wanted very much to take his soldiers into It-a-ly; but between France and Italy there are high mountains called the Alps, the tops of which are covered with snow. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/4/) — "Is it pos-si-ble to cross the Alps?" said Na-po-le-on. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/5/) — The men who had been sent to look at the passes over the mountains shook their heads. — checked by a teacher - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/6/) — Then one of them said, "It may be possible, but"-- - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/7/) — "Let me hear no more," said Napoleon. " - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/8/) — Forward to Italy!" - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/9/) — People laughed at the thought of an army of sixty thousand men crossing the Alps where there was no road. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/10/) — But Napoleon waited only to see that everything was in good order, and then he gave the order to march. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/11/) — The long line of soldiers and horses and cannon stretched for twenty miles. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/12/) — When they came to a steep place where there seemed to be no way to go farther, the trum-pets sounded "Charge!" - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/13/) — Then every man did his best, and the whole army moved right onward. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/14/) — Soon they were safe over the Alps. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/15/) — In four days they were marching on the plains of Italy. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/16/) — "The man who has made up his mind to win," said Napoleon, "will never say 'Im-pos-si-ble.'" - ← previous: [The Bell of Atri.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/25/) - next →: [The Story of Cincinnatus.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/27/) - ↑ back to [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/)