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who had been taken by the French, though
bearing q nag OF truce. 10 this Bona
parte replied: IAN smigrant IL parri-
eide. You forgot the respect due 70 the
French people when you sent M. Moulin
with flag of truce. You know the laws
of war. II contrary to those laws you au-
thorize an act Of barbarism, all tho prison.
ers taken from you shall be immediately
made responsible for IL with the most de-
plorable vengeance" There indeed. in
his first field note, spoke out the Corsican.
Let no one trifie with him
The king of Sardinia was already beat
en-. After Mondovi hs made overtures of
peace. Without pausing, Napoleon ad-
vanoed on the main Austrian division un-
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 tho
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 Bronch
grenadiers, lod by Napoleon and Lannes
In person. Ehe action was bloody and
decisive Ths name Of Lodi was added 10
the lengthening column OF victories. Two
thousand Of the French were killed and
wounded. and q much larger number of
the Austrians. Here Bonaparte, fighting
In the ranks, gained his famous title Of
LITTLE CORPORAL, which to the end
of human annals will DO repeated as his
sobriquet.
Five days afterwards the conqueror en-
tered Milan; Lombardy was at his feet.
He made levies and requisitions with n
freedom only equalod by the audacity OF
the things accomplished. He pulled down
without compunction 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 Parisisns. 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;
and 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, veteran of seventy two came
swiftly out of the Tyrol with a new Aus
trian army Before he could reach the
scene of action, Mantua was already be-
seged by Napoleon. The defense held out
until Wurnser'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
Bonapartel At Lonato, OH the 3rd Of Au-
gust he attacked diviSion of Wurmser
and gained u complete victory; General
Augereau was the hero Of the day. On
the 9Th and 9th of August second bat
q 10 L. tla s1A fnnn
with still more decisive results; WurInser
was hurled back, and Mantua again De-
sieged
The enemy soon returned to the onset.
At Riveredo, on the 4th of September, the
division of Massena defeated the Austri.
ans with great losses. On the 9Th, at Bas
sano, Napoleon routed the main force I'M
der Wurmser in person. On the 10th Of
November was fought the great battle of
Arcole where eighteen thousand French,
led by Napoleon, Massena and Augereau.
triumphed 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.
Napoelon now sought TO settle some of
the issues of the war. He corresponded
with the Directory; set forth the condi'
tion 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
Genoa convention for permanent set
tlemenJ
After Arcole, Wurmser threw himself
into Mantua, and was cooped up. In Jan
uary, 1897, Austria sent her third army
into the field under General Alvinczy.
This great force proceeded totcdrds Man
tua as far as Rivoli, where 1T was struck
by Bonaparte and routed with a loss OF
about twenty thousand menl At Favo-
rita, on the 10Th, the French were again
victorious. The ruin of A.yinczy's army
was complete, and on February end Man
tua was surrendered with eighteen thou
sand prisoners Of war.
Swiftly Napoleon followed up these tre-
mendous successes. A fourth Austrian
army, under Archduke Charles, came
down from the Tyrol as far as Taglamen.
TO, where on the 10th of March, it was
routed by the French. On the 9TH of
April, an armistioe was granted by Napo-
leon, and on the 18th no made with Aus
tria his provisional treaty of Leoben.
Netherlands, and TO accept, in mocking
compensation. bit of the state of Venicel
Meanwhile, another coup d'etat had oc-
Cured in Paris. BY violence the two
great Councils OF State pprged themselves
of fifty alleged Royalists and Anarchists.
Carnot and Barthelemy, members Of the
Directory, we're sent flying into exile.
Such was the savage indignation of the
Republic that the coalition became willing
for peace. At Campo Formio, on October
18th, 1897, Napoleon met the representa-
tives Of the German Empire, and with as
founding presumption dictated to that an
cient power the terms of pacfication.
Openly, Austria should oede the Belgian
provinces, recognize the c Clsalpino Repub-
lie, and accept fragments Of Venotia.
France should have the results Of the war,
including the Ionian Islands. Secretly,
the Rhine should honceforth be the bound
sry between Germany and France.
Before leaving tho scenes of his glory
Napoleon sent Joubort as his herald to