Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-13

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 FrerOn, and SaliCctti. the CurSiCan rep resentativo in the assembly, and in par ticular Augustin Robespierre, called tho Younger.
 Among theso moves the taciturn Cap tain Bonapartc. On tho 18th of October he is promoted to be major and chef-de- Battalion. He is placed at tho head of the artillery-his own place, as events will show. Tradition has it that he eats little; sleeps among his gun-car- riages; laughs not at all (except once, when young man by his side lodging from shell is cut in two by itD; is sun tanned to bronze. He with the rest sees that Toulon is not taken; but unlike tho rest he studies tho map, and going from place to place, uses his spy glass. Ho looks many times at Fort L'Eguillette, whCro the British flag is flying Tuulun is indeed strong. Ad- miral Hood says that ho will beat back this French army and mako the place still stronger. He will mako it a second Gibraltar-if tho unforeseen do not pro vent him.
 put tuo uultltScCn lItNtbtS. It1 moro than two months tho siege pounds itself away in vain. Then there is n council of war Tho older officers, thor oughly imhued with military "sciunce. suggest this method and that method of taking tho town. The National rep rcsontativeS lCUll on. TuulOu must be taken: and tho Convention has sent an impossible plan of doing it. It comes Napoleon's time to speak. Wonder, |" says he, lis Fort L'Eguillotte. Take | that; it is the key to all. Here into that ravine is q line of approach-to a cer- tain point. Let us send thither a storm ing column. under protection of my guns. will pound the fort with shells, till the point is reached. Then there shall be a pause Out of the hollow shall spring my column. One bound, like the leap of a cat-o'-mountain, and the fort is ours. We will turn the guns on the town, and on Hoods ships. Ev- erything shall be inside out in an hOur!' | Here, then, is audacity. Dugommier and Doppes and the rest purse up their mouths and look wise. This is danger ous; but Major Bonaparte may try 1t! So on tho 10th of December, l193, he tried tt; and the thing was done. Fort | L'Eguillette was bombarded, and car ried by storm. The Royalists fled to the British ships, and Hood took wing by sea- Toulon was not made into 'anoth' CT English Gibraltar" The Revolution has Toulon. and will keep it forever. The National representatives see who il is that has done this. Only three days afterwards Napoleon is nominated gen eral of Brigade. He is now twenty foul years four months old. His appointment is approved-aftcr a little delay; ant on tho l6th of February, l794, he TO ceives his commission.
 After Toulon. the name of Bonapart' was heard in Paris. The younger Robes pierre informed the Convention that h. was ''of trauscendent merit" The re port of Dugommier said, Among thos who distinguished themselves most ana who most aided me to rally the troop and push them forward are citizen Buona Parte lido you not know how t, spell him yet, Generally commanding the artillery; also Arena and Cervoni adjutants- general The success of tn chef-de Battalion in the siege and cap ture, and the favorable report of it pro duoed sensation in the National Con vention; but the impression on tha body and on the public was as yet onl, transient At this epoch, when all quar ters of France were shaken with com motions and local revolutions, the bril- liant capture of single fort and tow on the Mediterranean was not enoug sN orAata Q nermansnt military fame