Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-04-22

reached AlondoYl, forty y-elght miles from Turin, and on the following day attacked and defeated the division of General Colli. 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 Adda, holding the bridge that Tod 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 Adda by six thousand French grena- .diers, led by Napoleon and Lannes ill person. The action was bloody and de- eisive Tho name of Lodi was added to the lengthening 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 oonqueror entered Milan; Lombardy was at his feet He made levies and acquisitions with a freedom only equaled by the au- dacity of tho things accomplished. Ma ,11 TNIo before him; and the Pope, becoming pe- titioner, signed all armistice
 Such was tho first passage of the war; and tho second was like the first The coalition was not to yield without fur ther battle. Napoleon made Mantua his next objective Fieldmarshal Wurmser, of great fame, veteran of seventy two came swiftly out of the Tyrol with new Austrian army. Before he could reach the scene of action, Mantua was already besieged by Napoleon. Tho de- fense held out until Wurmser' 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 Bonapartei At Lonato, on the 3rd of August, he attacked diUision of Wurmser and gained a complete victory; General Augereau was the hero of the day. On the 9th and 9th of August q second battle, on nearly the same field, was fought with still more decisive re- suits; Wurmser was hurled back, and Mantua 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 tho 8th, at Bassano, Napoleon routed the main force under Wurmser in person. On the 10th of November was fought the great battle of Areole where eighteen thou sand French, led by Napoleon, Massena and Augereau, triumphed over the Aus trians nearly forty thousand strong The battle was fought ill a swampy re- zion traversed with causeways and diff cult bridges After three days of desper- ate fighting Wurmser was so disastrous iy defeated as to end the contest.
 After Arcole, Wurmser threw himself into Mantua, and was cooped up. In January, 1797, Austria sent her third army into the field under General Al vinczy. This great force proceeded toacdrds Mantua as far as Rivoh, where it was struck by Bonaparte and routed with loss of about twenty thousand men! At Favorita, on the 16th, tho French were again victorious. The ruin of Alyinezy s army was complete, and on February 2nd Mantua was surren- dered with eighteen thousand prisoners.
 Swiftly Napoleon followed up theso tremendous successes A fourth Aus trian army, under Archduke Charles, came down from the Tyrol as far as Tagliamento, where on tho l6th of March, it was routed by the French. On the 7th of April, an armistico was granted by Napoleon, and on the 18th he made with Austria his provisional treaty of Leoben.
 Meanwhile, another coup d'etat had occurred ill Paris. By violence tho two great Councils of State purged them selves of fifty alleged Royalists and An archists Carnot and Barthelemy, mem bers of the Directory, were sent flying into exile. Such was the savage indig nation of tho Republic that the coalition became willing for peace At Campo Formio, on October 17th, 1797, Napo- leon met the representatives of the Ger man Empire, and with astounding pre- sumption dictated to that ancient power the terms of qualification. 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 cluding tho Ionian Islands. Secretly, the Rhine should honceforth be tho 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 tho fol lowing results; The campaign of the Army of Italy has extended from April 18th, 1796, to October l7th l797 Wo have taken l50. 900 prisoners; ITO stand ards; $50 siege pieces; 600 fold guns; five DOntOon eauipageS; nine ships of 64