The History of the Campaign of 1796, in Germany and Italy

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T. Cadell, 1797 - 388 ページ
 

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350 ページ - DESIRING to terminate amicably our differences with the French republic, by the retreat of the troops which you command, we fend and depute to you, as our plenipotentiaries, two ecclefia flics, the Cardinal Malty, who is perfectly known to you, and M.
259 ページ - Trojnn war, is situated upon a lake formed by the Mincio, twenty Italian miles in circumference, and two miles broad. It is large, well built, and contains a great number of churches, of which some are very richly decorated. At the time when it still belonged to the Dukes of Mantua who resided there, it reckoned upwards of 50,000 inhabitants ; it does not now possess half that number.
384 ページ - had no hesitation to say, in the proclamation which he made to his soldiers in entering into Carynthia, that all the expences of the army of Italy, during eleven months, had been paid by the conquered countries, and that he had besides sent 30 millions of livres to France.
243 ページ - Bonaparte persevering in his resolution, ordered fresh troops to reinforce the column engaged in the attack. Six Generals, putting themselves at its head, animated them by their example, inflamed them by their words, and led them back to the charge. Taking advantage of a moment, when the thickness of the smoke, produced by the incessant fire, prevented the Austrians from perceiving and making a general discharge upon the French; the latter...
4 ページ - They authorize a statement, that at this time, the two French armies, commanded by Generals Jourdan and Moreau, amounted to more than 160,000 men ; and that the Imperial forces, commanded by his Royal Highness the Archduke Charles, including the Saxons and other contingents of the Empire, were nearly 150,000 men.
351 ページ - obliging things contained in the letter which " you have given yourself the trouble to write to " me. The peace between the French Republic "And your Holiness has been just signed.
334 ページ - ... of recruits. He was not lefs fo by the errors of the generals oppofed to him. They committed feveral, both on the upper and lower Adige ; but the greateft undoubtedly was the ordering Mr. de Provera to commence his campaign before he could be joined by the troops...
331 ページ - Buonaparte had not been fo exaftly informed, it is reafonable to believe, that inftead of being fo completely victorious, he would have been feverely beaten at fome point or other, and that the Auftrians would at leaft have been enabled to break up the blockade of Mantua. That General admitted that he never incurred fo great a danger, and that his pofition hung as it were by a thread.
11 ページ - Ehrebreitstein, aud to line the right bank of the Rhine, between the Sieg and the Lahn. This corps was commanded by the Prince of Wurtemberg, who had taken a position in front of the Sieg. He was attacked there on the 1st of June by the greater part of the army of the Sambre and Meuse, under the order of General Klebtr.
3 ページ - ... for the purpose to those persons, whom their local position, and their military situation equally placed within reach of very good information on the subject. The communication which he has received from them, enables him to form a near estimate of the numbers of the French and Imperial armies, at the opening of this campaign. He thinks...

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