The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-21

thousand French ereadaiers. ii5
oy Napoleon and Lannes in
SStSsol, me action was bloody and
utsc-slNe. me name Of Lodi was added 70
ne lengIhening column Of victories. Two
thousand OF the French were killed and
~, MhoA1tled. and a much larger number Of
me Austrians. Here Bonaparte fighting
~ the rar ks. gained his famous title of
LAlt-e corporal, which to the end of hu-
ttl .s annals will be repeated as his so
Five days afterwards the conoueror en-
S ~ Milan; LOmbardy was at his feet.
- 80 5ldue leNles and acquisitions with a
freedom only equaled by the audacitv OF
me lnlngs accomplished. He pulled down
M-tuout conjunction the magnificent art
tsLygl1.lles OF me city, and semi them as fore
It ,,ie5.ls OF MS triumph to Paris. Well he
hlLeM the eHect which the news Of the
ssaI lilng events. and his treasures of an
ZEN art as evidence. would produce on
, rne FaIlslans. Naples, Modena and Par
~ Went down before him; and the pope.
becoming petitioner, signed an armsstice.
Soch was the first passage of the war.
auu Ihe second was like the first. The
coaleton was not 10 Yield without further
battle. Napoleon made Nantus his next
objective. Field Marshal Wurmser of
great fame, a veteran of seventv-tvyo.
SkdMe swiftly out of the Tyrol with a new
austrian army. Before he could reach the
scene OF action, Mantua was already he
sleged by Napoleon. The defense held out
unll Wurmser's army came on in two II.
back. ~ 'e'i'
The division of his forces proved fatal
% the Austrian commander Woe to the
army that was ever divided in front of
bonaparte, AT Tomato, on the Bird of An
gust he attacked a division of WurThser
ana gained a complete victory; Gen. Au-
stI - e,s was ss me hero Of the day. on the
ouh ana 9TH of August a second battle on
nearly the same field was fought with
sun more decisive results: WurmSar wa {
hprLeu oack and Mantua again besieged.
rfaff rT~ . eli.
Al klVerdo, on the 4th of September the
division of Massena defeated the Austri-
ans with great losses. On the Sth, at Bas-
Sano, Napoleon routed the main force an
DER Wurmser in person. On the 18th of
November was fought the great battle of
Arcole where eighteen thousand French
ied by Napoleon, Massena and Augereau,
trlumphed over the Austr.ans nearly forty
thousand strong. The battle was fought
IN sWampy region traVersed with cause-
Ways and difficult bridges. After three
Gays OF desperate fighting Wurmser was
so disastrously defeated as to end the
contest. ''i'
NAPOLEON now sought to settle some of
/ the issues Of the war He corresponde,i
with the directory; set forth the condi-
| tlon OF Italian affairs, and his own pur-
/ poses; indicated tile necessity of slIbiu.
gazing Venice; granted armistices to the
/ KING OF SARDINIA, to the duke of Parma,
/ 70 the king of Naples, and made with
Genoa a convention for permanent set
Il threw
INTO Mantua, and was cooped up. In Jan
uary' 1877, Austria sent her third army
| INTO the field under Gen. Alvinczy. This
great force proceeded towards Mantua
as Iar as Rivoli, where II was struck by
/ Bonaparte and routed with a loss al
aboui twenty Thousand menl At Fayo-
rita, on the 18th. the French were agar
| victorious. The ruin of Alvinczv's ARM
| was complete. and on Feb 2 Mantua was
surrendered with eighteen thousand pris
| oners of war.
Swiftly Napoleon followed up these tire
mendous successes. A fourth Austrian
army, under Archduke Charles, cam,
down from the Tyrol as far as Tagliamen
TO, where on the 18th of March Ii wa
| routed by the French. On the 7th O
| April, an armistice was granted bv Napo
| leon, and on the 18th he made with Aus
trla his provisional treaty of Loeben
| That power was compelled to cede III,
| Netherlands and to accept. in moclxin,
/ compensate ton, bit of the state of Venice
Meanwhile, another coup d-etat had oc
great councils of state purged themselve,
| OF fifty alleged royalists and anarchists
| Carnot and Barthelemy. members of tn,
glrectory, were sent flying into exile
| republic that the coalition became willin.
| for peace. At Campo Forrnio on Octobei
| nth, 1877. Napoleon met the representa-
| ives or the German empire, and with as
| founding presumption dictated to that an
/ Client power the terms of pacihcation
| Openly, Austria should cede the Belgian
| lie and accept fragments of Venetia
| France should have the results of the war
| including the IOnian Islands Secretly
| the Rhine should henceforth be the bound
airy between Germany and France.
| Before leaving the scenes of his glory
| Napoleon sent Joubert as his herald Il
| Paris He shall announce for us the fol
| lowing results: The campaign of the arm,
/ of Italy has extended from April u. 1895
| to Oct. II, 1897. We have taken 1850,
| 900 prisoners; 10 standards $50 sieg,
| pieces; 500 field guns, pontoon equipages
nine ships of "a guns; twelve fri
| gates of 30 guns; twelve corvettes; eight
cen galleys. We have given "libertv'
! whatever that may mean, generally Il
Bologna, Ferrara, Modena, Carrara, Ro
magma, Lombardy, Brescia, Bergamo
| Mantua, Cremona, part of Verona, CHA
/ yena, Bormio, the Valtelline Genoa, tn,
! Imperial Fiefs, Corcyra, the Ionian Isles
| Ithica. We send to Paris all the master
| pieces of Michael Angelo, Guercino, III
| tian, Paul Veronese, Correggio. ALBANIA
| Carracci, Raphael Leonardo da Vinci
| Not all the masterpieces of these immor
| tails. generals but the rest is true to tn,
/ letter. And by order of the directory Won
| glOries shall be written in golden cata
| logue on a memorial flag to be hung II
| the great hall of sittings, and be seen b,
| shouting Paris and the world You wer,
| never yourself poor man afterwards
John Clark Ridpath
Can Pains De Remembered