The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-06-08

Sweden-all easy dupes of a greater than
thcmSelves-to make a new coalition. He
tried o induce Frederick william of Prus-
sia to join his fortunes with the rest; but
the last-named monarch was for the time
restrained by the weakness of prudence.
The agents of Napoleon held out to him
suggestions of the restoration of Hanover
to Prussia. But Austria and Russia and
Sweden pressed forward confidently to
overthrow the new French Empire. That
Empire should not see the end of the first
year of its creationl
The Austrians were first in the field.
The Russians, under kutusoff, came on
into Ponerania from the East. Out OF
Sweden, with a large army, came down
Gustavus, the Don QuiXote of the North,
to crush Bcrnadotte who held Hanover.
Napoleon for his part. sprang forth for the
campaign of Austerlitz, perhaps the most
brilliant military episode in the history of
mankind. With incredible facility he
threw forward to the Rhine an army of a
hundred and eighty thousand men. His
policy was-as always-to overcome the
allies in detail.
On the Gath of September, the Emperor
left Paris. The Empress and Talleyrand
Went with him as far as Strasburg. On
the End of October, hostilities began at
Guntzburg. -Four days afterwards the
French army crossed the Danube. On the
Sth of the month, Murat won the battle of
Wertingen, capturing Count A~uffcnberg,
with two thousand prisoners. On the 10th
the French had Augsburg, and on the
18th, Munich. On the 14th Soult tri-
umphed at Memingcn, capturing a corps
of six thousand A%ustrians; and on the
same day Ney literally overran the terri
tory which was soon to become his Duchy
of Elchingen. Napoleon outgeneraled the
main division Of the enemy at Ulm. The
Austrians, under General Mack, thirty
three thousand strong, were cooped UP in
the town and, on the 18th of October,
forced to c%apitulate. Eight field-marshals
and generals, including the Prince Lich-
tenstein and Generals Klenau and Fresnel,
were made prisoners. "Soldiers of the
Grand Army" said Napoleon, 1--WE have
finished the campaign in a fortnight!'
On the day Of the %capitulation Of Ulm,
Massena in Italy drove back the army of
the Archduke Charles. The Austrians to
this date, in a period Of twenty days, had
lost by battle and capture fully fifty thou
SAM men! IN the 27th of October, the
French army crossed the Inn. Salzburg
and Braunau were taken. In Italy, Mas
sena, on the Both, won the battle of Cal
diero, and took five thousand prisoners.
The French closed towards the Austrian
capital. On the 18th Of November, Napo-
leon, having obtained possession of the
bridges of the Danube, entered Vienna.
He established himself in the imperial pal
ace of Schonbrunn. The Austrian Empire
and the Holy Roman Empire-which was
its shadowy penumbra-seemed to vanish
like ghosts before him.
Out of Pomcrania into Moravia, to the
plain of Olmutz, the great Russian army,
under the Gar and Kutusoff, came roar
ing. There they were united with q heavy
division of the Austrians, under the EN-
peror Francis. The latter had fled from
his capital, and staked his last fortunes on
battle in the field. Tho allied army was
eighty thousand strong. Napoleon, with
sixty thousand men, commanded by Soult,
Lannes, Murat and Bernadottc, advanced
rapidly from the direction of Vienna, as
far as Brunn, and there awaited the onset.
just beyond this town, at Austerlitz, the
French were arranged in Il semicircle, with
the convex front towards tho allies, who
occupied the outer arc on a range OIL
heights. Such was the situation on the
night of December LIST, 1906. TIE morrow
will be the first anniversary of our corona.
ton in Notre Dame-a glorious day fol
battle!
With the morning of the End, Napoleon
could scarcely restrain his ardor. The en-.
thusiasm of the army knew no bounds
On the night before, the Emperor, in hi.
gray coat, had gone the circle of the camps,
and the soldiers, accompanying straw
torches to light the way, ran before him
Looking eagerly through the gray dawn,
he saw the enemy badly arranged, or NOV
ing dangerously in broken masses under
the cover of II Moravian fog. Presently
the fog lifted, and the sun burst out il
s%plcndor. The onset of the French wa.
irresistible. The allied center was pierced
The Austrian and Russian emperors Will
their armies were sent flying in utter rour
n panic from the field. Thirty Thousand
Russians and Austrians were killed
wounded or taken. Alexander barrel,
escaped capture. Before sunset the Thirt
Coalition was broken into fragments ant
blown away. At the conference between
Napoleon and Francis, two days after
wards, at the Mill of Sar- Uschitz, som,
of the French officers overheard the fathe
of Maria Louisa lie to her future husband
thus-'l promise not to fight you an,
more"
Meanwhile, from the borders of Han
over, the Quixotical Gustavus had takel
to flight, and was eager to secure himsel
beyond the Baltic. On the gath of Decem
Der, everything was completed by tn
Peace of Pressburg. Austria gave up tn
whole of her Venetian possessions to tn
kingdom of Italy. The Tyrol, Norarlberg
and Passau went to Bavaria. The latte
country and Wurtemberg were made int
kingdoms. For all this the ancient En-
pire of the Hapsburgs was compensate
with Salzburg and some other trilin
places, all of which History might hold a
q handful!
After Austerlitz the broken Russian
fell back towards their w territory
Central Europe seemed to be suddenl
dominated by the sword of the Corsicar
Pitt, no longer able to bear the strain {
the tremendous antagonism, sank rapidly
and died, The glorious victory which Ne
son had won in the bloody foam of Trafa
gar, on the day after the equalization {
Mack, could not compensate for the Cor
t~inental ruin. Pitt passed away on the 23r
of January, 1906. AuSterlitZ and Pres
burg are said to have killed him!
JOHN CLARK RIDPATH.