Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-20

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 NATOLEON AT THE RATrLE OF AECoLE. seem inconsistent with the predominant; passion, Only short timo before de- parting on tho first Italian campaign he wrote letter t0 BOurricnnc, then an emigrant at Sens saving. Seek out fur mo a small piece uf laEd i'll your heauti- full valley Of the Ionuc. Twill purchase it as soon as 1 can get together the money. l wish to retire there: but rec ollCct that will have nothing to do with national property. Quito insin- ccrc and t.sful! Indeed, General, "a small piece of land" is tho last thing in this world that you wish for; and as 10 your retiring there, your rctIrvmcnt is fixed for another plaEc-that far-Otf island to which you referred i'll the last clause of your school exercise at Autun. Your essay was headed "Po>>o>siuus dcs Anslais:' you finished thus: "Saintr IIc- lrnc, petite isle You will find it so!
 The military glory of Nap,l,on prop erlY begins with his first campaign into Italy Tho States If that peninsula were | about totv made the ylaythiuGS If great ambitions Whvth,r tuo lufurucn If l Austria and the coalition should Cun- tinuo predominant from Pi, dmVnt tO Venice was the question. The existing order in tho Italian states anal cities fI- vurrd tho Austrian power; but tho VnPu- lar party was iu symva,hy with R"pub- lican France Buuapartv', mission into Italy was oStcu>ihlv for prvucrupation and drflnSr; but it meant. out of the nature of things. sharp war and speedy conquest
 Hardly had the campaign Ill Pied mont begun before the Directory ill Paris would send out the veteran krl!rrmau to be second ill command This might ho compliment to a Gcnora!-in chief not yet twcnty-Sevcn; but not so tC Bonaparte He at onCo replied saying that 1t was indifferent to him a thing most uutrur) whether he should serve in Italy or somewhere else. All Inc wished-so ran his plaint-was brief page i'll history awarded for service tC his country General Kollermau had more experience than he. and knew bet ter how to make War; but both to- gcthur wo shall mako 1t badly, will not willingly serve with a man who considers himself tho first general 1T Europe" How strongly Is here revealed the unconQuurable will and sclf-sufii cicncy and purpose of Bonaparto to |, all or nothing!
 Let us scan tho fold The coalition against Franco new embraced Austria Bavaria, Piedmont, Naples, aul Eng ! f and Italy wVrO also i'll tho league. Ful tho 'prutcction" of Piedmont and in dred of all Italy, an army of about >iNt! thousand men. thoroughly equipped all, supplied, and Cummand,d by Genera Brauliru, one of the abl,>t and most CX periCuCrd i'll Europe. had been sent int, Lumhardy Against this power NAVu Icons Army uf Italy was Sut, couSiS;in: of only thirty tivo thousand new men mi>vrally destitute, and having, Cnthu siaSm for It's principal r,snUrcr- WItl this hc must compete fir the mastery o etAtv, and kluSiuuS But the Army O Italy hnl for d command, a mhtAr, genius Ct so audaCious character a> ( rank its Ip'S>r$Srr with ti,, tWn ntht primu warriors of human history II had daring. military invention, th power of combination, the discovery 0 new expsdieuts, sudden adaptation [
 unforeseen contingencies. courage, am bition. foresight, subtlety. and inder, every quality fit to mako him what h
 was now about 10 beCOme-thc greateS commander of modern times.
 At Mnntonotte. twenty-six miles yves of Genoa. Napoleon fought his frs
 field battle He attacked the Austrian division of DArgenteau. and won victory. Mark you, he fought with diriSion of the enemy. This was On tn , 18th of April. only twenty-two day
 after his departure from Paris On tn
 14tt he struck the Austrians and Sardiu ians at MlIIesimO. ten miles furtht on, and won another victory. On tt next day he came on the enemy at Deg, and added n third. On the 2Ist. reached MondOvi. furtyeight mil, . from Turin, and On the following da [ attacked and defeated the division
 General Coli. In every engagement h
 blow was like that of n thundcrbo!
 The disciplined armies of his opponcr
 broke before him.
 1uC hlllH Ol ECsiiUlIlll Was sAAAN%A'
 beaten. After MuMdoyi he nado ovc a lures of peace. Without pauSins, N
 poleon advanced on tho main Austria division under Beaulieu Him he fOur
 strongly posted on the Adda, holdir l. the bridge that led into tho town
 Lodi. Frederic the Redbeard h; 2 founded Lodi on the site of the anciel
 Roman Laus Pompeia On the 10th II May the Austrians. sixteen thOusaI
 strong, were attacked at the bridge d the Adda by six thousand French gren
 diars, led by Napoleon and Lann'S 10 person. The action was bloody and
 cisivs. The name of Lodi was added F- tho lengthoning column of victorie
 Two thousand of tho French were kill " and wounded, and much larger nuI
 Der of the Austrians, Here Bonapart n fighting ill the ranks. gained his famo 'S title of LITTLE CORPORAL. whi
 to the end of human apnals will he
 peAtsd as his sehfiuuet,