Sinossi
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...A few days only were spent in Milan to force the Italian princes to sue for peace, and, on the 28th, he moved his entire army through Brescia against Beaulieu, who had meanwhile occupied the line of the Mincio from the Lago di Garda to Mantua. To conceal his real intention, the French general made a demonstration against Peschiera, and, on the 29th, hurled all his available forces against Valeggio, forced the Mincio, and pierced the Austrian centre. Beaulieu was compelled to retreat into Tyrol to Roveredo, and to abandon not only Peschiera, which was immediately occupied, but Mantua, in which he had left 12,000 troops. The first Austrian army was now Jiors-de-combat, and Bona lln 36 hours Bonaparte marched 40 miles, followed by his divisions in echelon, the leading division farthest from the river--a wise precaution made with even such remarkable rapidity. 2"Napoleon on his nightly round encountered a bivouac of prisoners where there was a garrulous old Hungarian officer. He asked him how their affairs were progressing. The old captain could not deny that they were going very badly. 'But,' he added, 'there is no longer any way of understanding it. We have an affair with a young general who is now before us, then in our rear, then on our flanks. One never knows how one should place one's self. This manner of making war is insufferable and violates all custom.'" Napoleon, "Campagnes d'ltalie," Correspondence, tome 29. p. 102. parte promptly directed his energies elsewhere. He descended the Adige and occupied Verona and Legnago, appanages of Venice, in order to compel that republic to ally itself with France. On June 4th the investment of Mantua was begun, for which Serrurier was given 15,000 men. To support him 5,000 more were...
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