The Campaign of Marengo: With CommentsA. C. McClurg, 1897 - 240 ページ |
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advance advantage adversary Alessandria Apennines Apennines and Maritime Army of Italy Army of Reserve attack the Austrians Aulic Council Austrian army Austrian forces Bâle base of operations battle battle-field Black Forest Bona Bonaparte Bonaparte's captured cavalry Chivasso command concentrate Consul cross the Alps cross the Rhine Danube defeated Desaix detachment directed enemy Engen fact fight fortress forty thousand France French army French forces Genoa Germany Gothard hundred Kray Kray's Lake Constance Lannes Lecourbe manœuvres Mantua Marengo Maritime Alps Masséna Melas Milan Moncey's corps Mont Cenis Mont Cenis Pass Moreau Moreau's army Mosskirch movement Napoleon northern Italy occupied outnumbered Placentia plan of campaign position re-enforce rear retreat Rhine Schaffhausen séna sent side Simplon Simplon Pass Stokach Stradella Pass success Suchet superior numbers Suzanne Switzerland Tenda theatre of operations thence thousand Austrians thousand soldiers Thurreau Ticino tion trians troops Turin twenty thousand unite valley victory
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225 ページ - Desaix threw himself under a gun, and slept as contentedly as if he were in a palace. For him luxury had no charms. Upright and honest in all his proceedings, he was called by the Arabs, the ju»t Sultan, He was intended by Nature for a great general.
6 ページ - War is the condition of this world. From man to the smallest insect, all are at strife ; and the glory of arms, which cannot be obtained without the exercise of honor, fortitude, courage, obedience, modesty, and temperance, excites the brave man's patriotism, and is a chastening corrective for the rich man's pride.
224 ページ - was a man of superior talent. He generally, however, made bad dispositions previous to a battle; and it was not until the dead began to fall about him, that he began to act with that judgment which he ought to have displayed before. In the midst of the dying and the dead, of balls sweeping away those who encircled him, then Massena was himself — gave his orders, and made his dispositions with the greatest sangfroid and judgment.
139 ページ - ... likewise. He then stuck into it pins, the heads of which were tipped with wax, some red and some black. I silently observed him, and awaited with no little curiosity the result of this plan of campaign. When he had stationed the enemy's corps, and drawn up the pins with...
225 ページ - Desaix was wholly wrapt up in war and glory. To him riches and pleasure were valueless, nor did he give them a moment's thought. He was a little black-looking man, about an inch shorter than I am, always badly dressed, sometimes even ragged, and despising comfort or convenience.
97 ページ - Your plan," said one, a friend of Moreau, to the First Consul, " is grander, more decisive, even more sure. But it is not adapted to the slow and cautious genius of the man who is to execute it. You have your method of making war, which is superior to all others. Moreau has his own, inferior certainly, but still excellent. Leave him to himself. If you impose your ideas upon him, you will wound his self-love, and disconcert him.
6 ページ - Involving ours — he needs must fight To make true peace his own, He needs must combat might with might, Or Might would rule alone; And who loves War for War's own sake Is fool, or crazed, or worse ; But let the patriot-soldier take His meed of fame in verse ; Nay — tho...
139 ページ - Why, look here, you fool ! Melas is at Alessandria with his headquarters. There he will remain until Genoa surrenders. He has in Alessandria his magazines, his hospitals, his artillery, and his reserves. Crossing the Alps here (pointing to the Great Mont St. Bernard) I shall fall upon Melas, cut off his communications with Austria, and meet him here in the plains of Scrivia " (placing a red pin at San Giuliano).
219 ページ - ... by routine; or, if he does not, the loss of a single meal to his army would sufficiently impress it on him. While distant spectators imagine him to be intent only on striking or parrying a blow, he probably directs a hundred glances, a hundred anxious thoughts, to the communications in his rear, for one that he bestows on his adversary's front.