It was not a battle so much as a series of fierce duels.
His sword, which had served him in all his duels, and to which he was very much attached, he broke in pieces on a rock.
Napoleon, in the Island of Elba, is too near France, and his proximity keeps up the hopes of his partisans. Marseilles is filled with half-pay officers, who are daily, under one frivolous pretext or other, getting up quarrels with the royalists; from hence arise continual and fatal duels among the higher classes of persons, and assassinations in the lower."