The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-04-27

thorize an act of barbarism, all the prison
ers taken from you shall be Immediately
made responsible for it with the most de-
plorabI& vengeance" There indeed, in
his first ield-note, spoke out the Corsican.
Let no Que tritle with him.
The king of Sardinia was already boat
on. After Mondovi he made overtures of
peace. Without pausing, Napoleon adj
vanced on the main Austrian division I'M
der 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
grenadiers, led by Napoleon and Lannes
in person. Tho action was bloody and
decisive. The name of Lodi was added to
the lengthening olumn of victories. Two
thousand of the French were killed and
wounded, and a much larger humble 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 repeated as his
s%obriquet.
Five days afterwards the %conqueror en-
tered Milan; Lombardy was at his feet.
He made levies and acquisitions with a
freedom only equaled by the audacity of
the things accomplished. He pulled down
without conjunction the magnificent art
trophies of the city, and sent them as fore
tokens of his triumph to Paris. Well he
knew the effect which the news of the
startling events. and his treasures of an
cient art as evidence, would produce on
the Parisians. Naples, MOdena and Par
ma went down before him; and the Pope,
becoming petitioner, signed an armistice.
Such was tho first passage of the war;
n the second was like the first. The
coalition was not to yield without further
battle. Napoleon made Mantua his next
objective. Field-marshal Wurmser, of
great fame, a veteran of seventy-two, came
swiftly out of the Tyrol with a new Aus
trian army. Before he could reach tho
scene of action, Mantua was already be-
sieged by Napoleon. The defense held out
until Wnrmser's army came on in two di-
visions, and the French were forced to fall
back.
The division of his forces proved fatal
to the Austrian commander. Woe to the
army that was ever divided in front of
Bonaparte! At Tomato, on the 3rd of Au-
gust, he attacked a dirision Of Wurmser
and gained a complete victory; General
Augereau was the hero of the day. On
the 9Th and 9th of August a second bat.
tie, on nearly the Same field, was fought
with still more decisive results; Wurinser
was hurled back, and Mantua again be-
sieged.
The enemy soon returned to tho onset.
At Riveredo, on the 4th of September, the
division Of Massena defeated the Austri-
ans with great losses. On the Sth, at Bias
sano, Napoleon routed the main force IN
der in person. On the 18th of
November was fought the great battle of
Arcole where eighteen thousand French,
led by Napoleon, Massena and Augereau,
t%riumphed over the Austrians nearly forty
thousand strong. The battle was fought
in a swampy region traversed with cause
ways and difficult bridges. After three
days of desperate fighting Wurmser was so
disastrously defeated as to end the contest.
Napoleon now sought to settle some of
the issues of the war. He correspondent
with the Directory; set forth the condi-
ton of Italian affairs, and his own pur-
poses; indicated the necessity of subjugat-
ing Venice; granted armistices to the
king of Sardinia, to the duke of Parma,
to the king Of Naples, and made with