Boneys Broken Bridge
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A scene with Napoleon standing on a river bank at left, pointing to the fragments of a stone bridge. One of his officers bows towards him and says, "With all due defference to your little Majesty—it was the Austrian Fire Boats that destroyed the Bridge." Napoleon responds, "Ah! who is it that dares contradict me, I say it was some floating timber, and the high swell of the river, that Caused the Shocking Accident." Austrian soldiers are gathered across the river at right, with the Archduke Charles on his horse beside them. They sing a parody of the nursery rhyme on London Bridge:
"Boneys Bridge is broken down
Dance over the Lady Lea
Boneys Bridge is broken down
By an Arch-Duke—ee"
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