The National Register.
London, England, 1809-11-19 00:00:00

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ammunition, arms, and several stand of colours. This memo-
rable battle was fought on the 10th and 11th of April last. The
e•it of it belonged solely to the valorous inhabitants of the
Tvrot and Voralher,..-; for the regular Austrian army, hasten-.
ing to their relief, did not join them before the 13th of April:
it was received by the torquerors with drums beating and
colours fl N hile shouts of joy, and " long live our beloved
Emperor Fraeci;," rent the air.
Those who know the mildness of Bannaparte's temper will
be able to conceive an idea al the impression which this news
anite upon him. He instantly ordered Marshal Lefebvre, sup-
ported by the Bavnrian Generals Wreden, beroy, and Sibbein,
at the head of 24,000 men, to march against the Tyl•olese by
way of Salzbur,l. Gt.:lent! Rusca, with 8000 men was ordered
to advance from Italy, while General Ferron approached from
Carinthia, and General h!armont from Bavaria and Suabin
with from-six to seven thousand troops more. This was cer-
tainly a formidable force,• which would have conquered., and
even annihilated any other two nations of equal numbers. The
conflict, indeed, was obstinate and ierrible. But the enemies
were defeated, nll but Lefebvre, whose force was too large,
and whose devastations and cruelties were stich as to spread ler-
ror every where. He burnt towns and villagtos, and gave
quarter to no one. The aged were suspended from trees and
th -n shot. The pregnant women were even riptap and their
tmeasts cut WV, while their embryos were crammed down their
throats to put an end to the shrieks and moanings of the wretched
ri t;rns. If a Tyrolese or Voralberger, bearing arms, had the
m-fortune to fall into their hands, they immediately tore out
h - t mzue. The children were eat don n without mercy,
mo-t frequently carried about, transfixed with batonets. A
number a these innocents happening to return from school,
were met with and driven by these monsters into some barns, aim
burnt alive.

Lefebvre and his cannibals imagined to he able to intirnidnte
the Tyrolese and, Voralbergers by such cruelties; hut they had
tie very opposite effect, The T 3 rolese sharp-shooters now re-
►embled bloodtliiisty lions ; they rushed upon Lefebvre, and
totally defeated him ; thousands of the enemy were slain ; and
the General, accompanied only by a few remnants of Wup
great f‘irce, sought safety in au ignominious flight, directed
towards Vi. aria.

The re ull of this complete • victory was, that the Tyrol
and Voraltberg, tieing now free from their invaderF, served as
au asylum to litOsP Austrian prisoners who had been taken 14.‘
the French quitutisbon, Aspern, and Esslingen, and who found
) the diffieulty in making their escape. About ten thousand pi o-
tited by this opportunity : they were nearly naked, and th-
oxpence of eloathing and arming theta anew proved no small
burden to their hospitable friends.

Another advantage of this %ictory, displayed itself in the
sup-riot courage with which it inTired the cm•querors. They
pow sallied forth beyond ti:eir frontiers to seek the enemy. Iu
Bavaria they advanced as far a Munich, the capital city. In
Suaba they took the Kenaptno, pushing on beyond Meniming and
Ulm. In Italy they proceeded too within, a few miles of Ve-
rona.; and some corps over-ran Carintha and Salzburg, then al-
ready in the power of the enemy, so as to become 'to a .great
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degree masters of those countries.

Notwithstanding these successes, the conquerors were guilty
of no cruelties or acts of oppression. Not a single house vvas
pillaged by them, not a barn hid in ashes. No peasant was
ever taken prisoner or insulted. The wounded enemies were
particularly taken care of. It was the usual practice to carry.
them on shoulders into some house. The Tyrolese and Voral-
tergers acted throughout from an honourable ambi!i,tn, to shame
their cruel enemies, and convince them of the superior humanity
Of poor German mountaineers Neither France nor any of her
fillies can adduce a single iestanre of their prisbners having b' 'n
ill-treated either in the Tyrol or Voralberg, though the Fri-
soners from either country were tortured, murdered, or ill-used
by the French. •
All these glorious achievements, however, could not arrest
the progrw of the enemy in other quarters. In line, an armis-
:lice was again enneledr.d. The corps of Austrian troops left in
Isle T- I. id consi 1, • •the most ',art of the above men-
rixalled, and carried away with
ion which the Tyrolese had taken.
;elves compelled to abandon their
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