New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-10
THE WAR IN EUROPE.

The FIRST attempt Of the italian army upon
the Austrian dominions in italy has met with
defeat, A battle, which is dignifed by the
telegraph with the epithet Of great was
fought on the ESD ult in the neighborhood OF
Verona, and resulted in the repulse of the
Italian forces The account states that after
crossing the Mincio without opposition, Victor
! Emanuel pushed on towards Pesehiera, but
was quickly repulsed by the guns of that
stronghold. This, however, must be
mistake, as the subsequent battle was fought
some distance in advance of Pesehiera, which
fortress must have been left in the rear by the
italian army in marching on Verona. The
feat encountered by the Italians cannot have
been at all decisive since they are permitted
to reeross the NIincio without opposition.
Nevertheless the reverse must have a material
influence on the future character of the cam
paign because it wrests from the assailants
the advantage of the initiative, and enables
the Austrians to assume the offensive. Such
a change in the programme may seriously in
terfere with the plans which Victor Eman-
uel had formed for the conquest Of
Eenetia, and reduce him to the necessity of
defending his own dominions. However. no
accurate deductions can be drawn from these
events until tie intentions Of the parties to
the contest are more fully developed 1t is
quite possible that the italian advance on
Verona was intended only to cover a more Sc
rious naval demonstration in the Adriatio in
which sea the navy of Italy is supreme or
that march Of Garibaldi through the Tyrol
upon Munich to which the telegraph alludes.
Such march would be hazardous in the ex-
treme. 1t would conduct the invaders through
the narrow passes Of the Tyrolean Alps. where
their communications might easily be cut of.
Those passes must be held by the Austlians,
for il is through them that the Imperial forces
always descend into the italian plains I'll
Garibaldi push through them successfully, he
viii leave the Austrian army Of Italy III his
rear, and would, perhaps, find little opposi-
ton on the road to Munich That city is |
the capital of Bavaria, State in alliance
with Austria. If she could be overrun and
detached from the Austrian party. great
point would be gained by the allies, as Bava-
ria is the third State of Germany in power and
Influence We imagine however, that no such
enterprising and hazardous movement as this
would be is contemplated, except by some
fanciful correspondent or enthusiastic editor.
The first Napoleon undertook to march up
the passes of the Tyrolean mountains, in 1897, |
towards Vienna but it was only after Italy
had been completely freed from the enemy |
and the military power of Austria effectuaIly
broken by the defeat of the armies which
she had sent into Lombardy under Beaulieu.
WuI1nser and Alyinzi Napoleon's victorious
progress was checked by the opening of nego-
tiations, and the war closed with the treaty Of
Campo Formio and the transfer to Austria of
the city and province for the recovery of which
Italy has engaged in the present war. 1t
would be strange if Austria should lose,
through the direct Or remote agency Of the
third Napoleon, the dominion which she re-
ceived as a gift from the first
The ground on which the opening opera
tons Of the war in Italy are conducted has
been, throughout historic ages, the scene of
hostile conflict. II was on the plains of Lonl-
hardy and Piedmont formerly cis-Alpine
Gaul+ that Hannibal defeated the Roman
armies that Marius turned back the tide Of
feutonic invasion; that the vitellean and
Flayiaan forces contended for the mastery Of
he Empire in that terrific siege which
las been immortalized by the sombre but
,raphic pen of Tacitus; that Frederic Barba-
ossa fed before the armies Of the confedera-
ed Italian cities. It was on these plains that
Eugene won his brilliant victories that Sd I
narrow, in his combat with Joubert, dupIica- !
ed on the same ground the Trebbian victory {
t Hannibal that Napoleon Bonaparte began
nat career Of which the names of Now and
Iontenotte, Castiglioni, Riyoli, Arcola, and y
laIengo are. not the least splendid ornaments
t was here that Charles Albert beheld the ruin |
his cause and his hopes in AS, when he
ed from the bitter field of Noyara and it
Fas here that his son, eleven years afterwards,
aw at solferino the fulfllment of the same q
opes and the triumph Of the same cause.
4uly it is field populous with the ghosts of
istorg
esq I;