Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-01

reached Mondovi, forty-eight miles
fsc1n Turin, and On the following day
attacked and defeated the division Of
General Coli. In every engagement his
blow was like that of thunderbolt.
The disciplined armies of his opponents
broke before him.
The king of Sardinia was already
beaten. After Mondovi he made over.
lures of peace. Without pausing, Ma
poleon advanced ON the main Austrian
division under Beaulieu. Him he found
strongly posted on the AIDA, holding
the bridge that led into the town of
Lodi. Frederic the Redbeard had
founded Lodi on the site of the ancient
Roman Laus Pompeia. On the 10th Of
May the Austrians, sixteen thousand
strong, were attacked at the bridge Of
the AIDA by six Thousand French grena-
diers, led by Napoleon and Lannes in
person. The action was bloody and de-
cisive. The name of Lodi was added to
the frightening column of victories.
Two thousand of the French were killed
and wounded, and much larger num-
Der of the Austrians Here Bonaparte,
fighting in the ranks, gained his famous
title of LITTLE CORPORAL, which
to the end of human annals will be re-
peated as his sobriquet.
Five days afterwards the conqueror
entered Milan; Lombardy was at his
feet. He made levies and acquisitions
with a freedom only equaled by the au-
dacity OF the things accomplished. Ma
pies. Modena and Parma went down
before him; and the Pope, becoming Pc
titioner, signed an armistice.
Such was the first passage of the war;
and the second was like the first. Tho
coalition was not to yield without fur
ther battle. Napoleon made Mantua his
next objective. Field marshal Wurmser,
of great fame, veteran Of seventy two,
came swiftly out of the Tyrol with a
new Austrian army. Before he could
reach the scene Of action, Mantua was
already besieged by Napoleon. The de-
Tense held out until Wurmser's army
came on in two divisions, and the
French Were forced to fall back.
The division of his forces proved ia
tai to the Austrian commander. Woe to
the army that was ever divided in front
of Bonaparte! st Tomato, ON the 3rd of
August, he attacked a dirision of
Wurmser and gained complete victory;
General Augereau was the hero of the
day. On the 9Th and 9th of August a
second battle, ON nearly tho same field,
was fought with still more decisive re-
suits; Wurmser was hu:led back, and
Martua again besieged.
The enemy soon returned to the onset.
At Riveredo, on the 4th of September,
the division of Massena defeated the
Austrians with great losses. On the Sth,
at Bassano, Napoleon routed the main
force under Wurmser in person. On the
10Th Of November was fought the great
battle of Arcole where eighteen thou
sand French, led by Napoleon, Massena
and Augereau, triu,nphed over the Aus
trians nearly forty Thousand strong.
The battle was fought in q swampy re-
gion traversed with causeways and diff
cult bridges. After three days of desper-
ate fighting Wurmser was SO disastrous
~ defeated as to end the contest.
After Arcole, Wurmser threw himself
into Mantua, and was cooped up. In
January. 1897, Austria sent her third
army into the field under General AL
vinczy. This great force proceeded
to,oUrds Mantua as far as Rivoli, where
it was struck by Bonaparte and routed
with loss of about twenty Thousand
men! At Favorita, on the 10th, the
French were again victorious. The ruin
of Alvinczy's army was complete, and
on February End Mantua was surren-
dered with eighteen thousand prisoners.
Swiftly Napoleon followed up these
tremendous successes. A fourth Aus
trian army, under Archduke Charles,
| came down from the Tyrol as far as
Tagliamento, where OH the 10th Of
March, it was routed by the French.
On the eth of April, an armistice was
granted by Napoleon, and on the 18th
he made with Austria his provisional
treaty of Leoben.
Meanwhile, another coup d'ctat had
occurred in Paris. By violence the two
great Councils of State purged them
selves of fifty alleged Royalists and An
| archists. Carnot and Barthelemy, men,
| bers of the Directory, were sent flying
into exile. Such was the savage indig-
nation of the Republic that the coalition
became willing for peace. At Campo
Formio. on October 18th, 1897, Napo-
leon met the representatives of the Ger
man Empire, and with astounding pre-
sumption dictated to that ancient power
the terms of pacifcation. openly, Aus
tria should cede the Belgian provinces,
recognize the Cisalpine Republic, and
accept fragments of Venetia. France
should have the results of the war, in
Guiding the Ionian Islands. Secretly,
the Rhine should henceforth be the
boundary between Germany and France.
Before leaving the scenes of his glory
Napoleon sent Joubert as his herald to
Paris. He shall announce for US the fol-
lowing results: The campaign of the
Army Of Italy has extended from April
18th, 1896, to October 18th, 1891. We
have taken so, 600 prisoners; 20 stand
ards; $50 siege pieces; 600 field guns;
five pontoon equipages; nine ships of Ga
guns; twelve frigates of 50 guns; twelve
corvettes; eighteen galleys. We have