The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-07-11


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The following extracts, from a posthu
nous work of the late historian. Michelet
Were published recently in the Rappei Q
Paris: n'51f7A-
llls b Vendoine war was over. r Hoch
then had but one. thought-to be avenge,
of England,
assHe said. 1aiththas good sense and iuaddp,
mentrwhieh characterize the Partisan tia
wars on the Continent were,a ~seooulur,
things that it would be necessary to make
war at the fountain.head IN England, wher,
was the wealth that paid the armies of tb,
Continent.
He thought little ofothe war on thu
Rhine which gave him all his glory. 0biig
ed TO return to It shortly before his death
he wrote toithe Minister ofathe NayyLlI
there be y favorable moment, let me know
even II l reach Vienna, I shall leaye every
thing to ny to the Rhine and embark
ii-"fhe only way to stop England IN thi
var which, while undisturbed at home,
she makes to the world, was not, as Bona,
parte Imagined, to strike her in the Alps
or IN Egypt, but to shake her vigorously
and pear, in threatening her in ireland. sai
1t was not necessary to be victorious,
but to'alarm her constantly in her com
MERGE, In her money interests and on the
onEanBe- fuudumoo .flt u qJtV4a4 10
of his friend, Admiral Truguet. Bold pro.
jectss heroic and disinterested, which did
not even look for victory. s-i4f, .no @st,,
The descent on Ireland, really impossi.
BILE In 1904, when Napoleon intend'd I'd
make It, was very possible IN I70a and the
following years Why was it so \, For a
very simple reason I: England was not in
formed Of it, was not prepared, and had
not all the means of defense which she ac-
cumulated in ten years. 4se.
And to that reason let us add another
important one, which made the projects OF
hoche as reasonable Us that of Napoleon in
lo04 was hazardous, and that is, that in
iT95, and even in 170S, there was in Ire
land q people who held out their arms to
Us. There srited an Irelaad; it was not vet
drowned in blood, i. had not yet entered on
that career OF increasing misery and famine,
which made us witness one of the most ter
rbie phenomena the physical destruction
OF a race, without its disappearance or de-
crease Of population.
=" Hoche, In isolating ireland, was cutting
of the right hand of England, and extin-
gushing Wellington in advance.
The undertaking was no doubt an un-
certain one, but n SPLENDID, danger, one of
those to which a hero would love to give
his life. 1t was more than a war of de-
struction-it was, above all, the evocation.
the resurrection Of a people. that France
would hnve brought from their tomb-of a
fraternal people SO good and 30 amiablei
" What a stimulant for the enthusiasm
OF our young navy, delighted to know that
on another shore there was another France
expected them. A France half barbarous.
but enthusiastic and impatient to ioin in
that fraternal union. Our men, brothers
of those who made the Federation in 1890
who continued on the Rhine the military
federation of the armies, imagined that
they would begin in ireland the maritime
Of the human race. -o4ty
While Bonaparte and Massena crossed
the snows Hoche nffronted the tempests Of
the ocean Q5th Dec The feet at Brcst
was not ready he will go nlone I'D Nov.
1850 The Directory refused permission
ldoche lost a precious month. q Discouraged,
he offered to Take, no matter where, the
Is, 900 men reserved for the expedition. 1t
was a means of reminding the Government,
getting the order to leave The Direc-
tory, on the contrary, took him at his word
and congratulated him for having abandon
ed his project. It came too late. The feet
had sailed for Ireland. 81 rpfnu11 iu1 JhE
" Having sailed ON, the 10th, on q dark
night, four ships came in contact with other.
1t WINS necessary to whit 9until morning.
During the night Of the 18th q new calamity
happened-the SeQnisdnt, on passing the,
Rae, went down with her "a cannons and
5000 men f.sfayd u9sd ssH frnazD
1.-THE fieet went 10 sail for the Bay of
Bantry. A terrible tempest came on the
18th, dispensing the shipsLHoche's vessel
the farthest off. In his absence, eCommo-
dore Bouret rallied what remained, and
the tempest was over entered the
Bay of Bantry, with seventeen vessels and
1000 men. But the wind blowing hard
again, he his cables and sailed for
France. A second tempest assailed the
fleet and it was only a fortnight after that
the ships reached Brest. aa3 20 e~fnaiae147
o." When they were entering the French
harbor Hoche arrived at Bantry. No one |!
not a single ship on the seal He was told
that the fleet, without landing any men,
had sailed off .gsf sal1Eoq seAs st aalg9at
8 He was near dying of grief. Mo Gees
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