The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-02

ISM which became the motto OF the order
o. The Iron Crown
The empire brought four years OF con.
.Lnuous war. Napoleon became the tram
pier Of vineyards. His armies made En-.
rope into mire. Engiand-agreeinR al
Amiens not TO hght-fought Pitt. now i'm
the last year Of his life. used all OF his
resources 10 bring about a league against
France. He persuaded Alexander Of Rus
sla. Francis Of Austria. and Gustavus OF
sWeten-all easy dupes Of "A greater than
themselves-to make new coalition. He
tried 20 induce Frederick William OF
Prussia 10 join his fortunes with the rest:
but The last-nanfcd mOnarchs was for the
ume restrained by the weakness Of pru-
dence The agents OF Napoleon held out
70 him suggestions Of the restoration OF
Hanover TO Prussia. But Austria and
Russia and Sweden pressed forward con-
hhently 10 overthrow the new French en-
pire. That empire should not see the end
OF the nrst year Of its creation
The Austrians We're first in the field
The Russians, under KutusOff. came on
into Pomerania from the east. out Of
sweden. with large army. came down
6ustarus, the Don QuiXOte Of the north
10 crush BernadOtte who held Hanover
Napoleon for his part sprang forth for
the campaign of Austerlitz. perhaps the
most brilliant military episode in the his
-Ns t+tetAihii4t4s W lAN llitIf-illhlF ldHAllNt
he threw forward to the Rhine an army
Of hundred and eighty thousand men.
his policy was-as always-to overcome
the allies i'm detail
On the gath of September. the emperor
LEFT Paris. The empress and Talleyrand
went with him as far as Strasburg on
the 2nd Of October hostiities began at
1un'zDurg. Four days afterwards the
French army crossed the Danube on the
Of @ la..r rse.
Mertlngen, capturing Count Auffenberg
with two thousand prisoners. on the 10Th
the French had Augsburg. and on the 18th.
Munich. on the 18th Soult triumphed at
Memlngen, capturing a corps OF six thou
sand Austrians; and on the same dav
Ney literally overran the territory which
was soon to become his Duchy Of Elchin-
gen. Napoleon outgeneralled the main d.
vision Of the enemy at Tim. The Austri-
ans under Gen. Mack, thirty-three thou
sand strong. We're cooped up in the town
ana on the nth Of October forced 10
capituiate Eight field-marshals and gen
erals, including the Prince Lichtenstein
and Gems. Klenau and Fresnel. were made
prisoners. Soldiers OF the Grand Army"
said Napoleon. I'VE have finished the cam
paign in d fortnight
on the day OF the capitulation of Tim.
Massena in Italy drove back the auany Of
NAAN ~ N4iAAhN 1fldtltS. Inc ANSTFlAlS 10
ms date in period Of twenty days. had
lost by battle and capture fully fifty thou
sand men! on the 9th of October the
French army crossed the Inn. Salzburg
and Braunnau We're taken. In Italy Mas
sena, on the 30th, won the battle of Cal
diero and took five thousand prisoners.
The French closed towards the Austrian
capital. on the 18th of November, Napo-
leon, having obtained possession Of the
10 40 at,fa.
He established himself IN the imperial pal
ace of Schonbrunn. The Austrian empire
and the Holy Roman empire-which was
Its shadowy penumbra-seemed TO vanish
like ghosts before him.
Out of Pomerania into Moravia. to the
plain Of Olmutz, the great Russian army.
under the car and Kutusoff came roar,
ing. There they were united with a heavy
division Of the Austrians, under the EN-
peror Francis. The latter had fed from
his capital and staked his last fortunes on
battle in the field. The allied army was
eighty thousand strong. Napoleon with
sixty thousand men, commanded by Soult
Lannes, Murat and Bernadotte advanced
rapidly from the direction of Vienna. as
far as Brunn, and there awaited the onset
Just beyond this town. at Austerlitz the
French were arranged in semicircle
with the convex front toward the allies
who occupied the outer arc on range of
nights. Such was the situation on the
night of Dec. !, 1865. The morrow will be
the nrst anniversary of our coronation in
Notre Dame-a glorious day for battle!
With the morning of the I'd. Napoleon
could scarcely resrain his ardor. The en-
thuslasm of the army knew no bounds
on the night before, the emperor, in his
gray coat, had gone the circle of the
camps, and the soldiers, extemporizing
straw torches to light the way, ran before
him. Looking eagerly through the gray
dawn, he saw the enemy badly arranged
or moving dangerously in broken masses
under the cover of a Moravian fog. Pres
emily the fog lifted, and the sun burst ont
in splendor. The onset of the French was
irresistible. The allied center was pierre
ed. The Austrian and Russian emperors
with their armies were sent flying in utter
rout and panic from the field Thirty thou.
sand Russians and Austrians were killed
wounded or taken. Alexander barely IS
capped capture. Before sunset the Third
Coalition was broken into fragments and
blown away. At the conference betue,r
Napoleon and Francis, two DAYS after
wards, at the Mil of Sar- schitz. some
of the French officers overheard the father
of Maria Louisa lie to her future bus.
band, thus-"I promise not to fight Won
any more"
Meanwhile, from the borders of Han
over, the QuiXotical Gustavus had taken
TO fight. and was eager to secure himself
beyond the Baltic. On the oath of Deem.
Der, everything was completed by tne
Peace of Pressburg. Austria gave IN the
WHOLE of her Venetian possessions 70 tbe
kingdom of Italy. The Tyrol. Vorarlbero
and Passau went TO Bavaria The latter
country and Wurtenberg were made into
kingdoms. For all this the ancient En-
pire of the Hapsburgs was compensated
with Salzburg and some other triainc
places, all of which History might hold al
a handful.
After Austerlitz the broken Russians
fell back toward their own territory. Cen
trail Europe seemed to be suddenly dom.
mated by the sword of the Corsican.
Pitt, no longer able to bear the strain Of
the tremendous antagonism, sank randi
~ and died. The glorious victory which
Nelson had won in the bloody foam of
Trafalgar, on the day after the capitula.
ton of Mack, could not compensate for
the continental ruin. Pitt passed awav
on the 2Sd of January, 1906 Austerlttz
and Pressburg are said to have killed
him. John Clark Ridpatn =
According to the Chicago Times-Her.