Incident Of The French Camp - Summary

This poem has been composed by Robert Browning. He was the most highly esteemed poet of the Victorian age. He wrote with full force of his imagination and poetic power.

      In this fast moving and exciting poem the poet describes the courage of a during French attack on Ratisbon. In 1890, the French army attacked the German city Ratisbon under the command of Lanes. The French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte stood on Little mound at a distance of about a mile or two. He seemed greatly disturbed and quite eager to know about the results of the battle. While he was engaged in intense thinking, a rider appeared from the clouds of smoke and fire. He drew the bridle when he reached the mound. He was seriously wounded, hence he compressed his lips so tightly that no blood drop came through his month. This young soldier gave a happy news to the emperor that his army had captured the city. Hearing this, Napoleon became very happy but suddenly he realised that the soldier was seriously wounded. He asked the soldier if he was wounded. The soldier replied that he was almost killed. Saying this he fell beside the emperor and died there. In this  was the young soldier sacrificed his life to perform his duty.