, 1859-05-19
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10 d. dars 4 i; i; t;a 9;.. f. district in
meai.tely exposed 70 Austri.n., u il lsrel
plain up 70 tie foot oftbe swisa Alps, whereas
On the Southern side III is mountainous, and the
whole space II filed With the shoots or spur& OF
the Lfgurian Appenines, sloElng away from
Genoa. In this division Of the Kingdom, he IN
strong places Of the Sardinians-AEessa
Cassel and ToEtona a-1nd on its Hs'tern edge
stands Turin itself tue capital Of the sLale.
Within or around these fortresses the Sardlnl-
ans haze collected the bulk Of their armv-per-
hAps some Is, ,o0O mcn-Ieaylng the plans OF the
north comparatively open to tile ncurstoos OIL
the enemy. Before the actual commencement
Of hostilitics, thu AustEians at Milan stood just
about Us far from the river as the French at
Briancon did from the mountains, and line
drawn from one Of t',ese points TO the other
would pass through the common mark Of both
armies--the royal city oF Turin. Turin, how
ever, is about fur ngain from DudaleEa, where
tue Austrlans crossed the flrcr, u It ls from
Susa, where the French halt OF crossing the
Alps. The distance being about seventy miles
in the former case, ogainst thlrty-three IN the
1atter. But this inequality was more than com
pcusuted BY relative difficulties ofthe two roads,
for whereas the Austrian. hate plain country
to traverse, the French can only reach Susa by
passing tue Alps. In reality, the advantage Of
ground SO fur, was on the side Of the Austrians,
hut their operations hare been Influenced BY
further considerations arising from the position
Of the Sardinian army before described. The
French, Is they descend upon Susa and push
| forward 10 Turin, are directly confronting the
Austrians On their march towards the came
were wrrt M Sard;n;a,ns e1cent in the can;,al the
shock of ha,t3c cnul1 he 1nr,icratcd WITH ,rreat
! farility Snnp.r or l,tar in fict yery sonr in
| deed, the belgrcnts would meet and an engage
| ment on large scale wpuld ensue.
I advance acroSs p;cdmnnt fran east to west.
| would harc ~ t,,c;r lit flank The whole con,
centra,ed s,reh1o,h of the Sandman army. rest.
;n1 IN ;ts fnpsi fo,+res.rs What the cha;n d,
tf,e Tyrot !; n au.fri. in thc Mains of Iom-
bardy. he chain Of the Legurian Appenincs is
to Sardiuia in the~plains Of Piedmont, and the
| parallel can be carried still further. Exactly a.
| Grriuauy lies in reserve beund the Tyroi SO
| does y second Freuch force gather strength be.
hind The Apprentices. Uu The sealoard OF these
mountains studs Genoa, which, US France com
| n,uud, the sea, can bercaced from Toulon will
thu greatest facility The Sasdiniaos. there.
fUr.. while thcy cluster in force about their cia
dels to the south Of the po, hare in their real
| the ,nnnnrt If a powerfu{ French army. within
tiGy rrtrs I;>ta,,ce The Austrians are thu:
ounoscd by Two bodies Of the cne,nv, one III
rcctlv facing them ii Turin and drawing dails
reintorcements from the passes of the Alps, ant
another 1T Cassel and A1essandria thanking theil
march and receiving succurs from distinct bast
"f operations at Genoa. Hy cruising their from
tier ut its northern extremity, as they have
done, they might occupy the northern districts
| Of Sardinia: aud if they descended thence upo1
| the Pn they miybt get the Sardinian ur1nv it
front Of them Sut they would then hare th
| army Of the A]us ppou their right They mus
| advance in aur CASE against two lines Of foes
rostrd 1t ri.Lt angles to eacI, other, and 70
simplicity's sake NJ. may consider these live
| to bc rcprcsented by tue rivers Dora uud I,al
teu, running frum north to south, and by Juze
and tbc Po. running from west 10 east by C:1s
-eI. Turin being pretty nearly Mt tile an.l.
| All tl.c places named lie within u compare
lively small compass. From Aroma, III
poiut occnpied by the !Austri4ns in til
north, to Gsnoa, OH the seaboard Of the soutl
the distance is about 10 miles, or yer