The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-03-04


OF war. III contrary 70 those laws you su-
thorizc nm act OF rlr NJ, a.: the prison
ers taken from you shall he immediately
made responsible for II with tho most de-
plornhlc vengeance" There inoecd In
his frat fleld-notc. srohc out the Corsican.
Let no o.i4 trlilo with Il ,m
The hang az Sa-t'nia was already bent
en-. After Mondovi he made overtures Of
peace. Without pausing, Napoleon ad-
vanced 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 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. The action was bloody and
decisive. The name of Lodi was added to
the lengthening column of victories. Two
thousand of the French were killed and
wounded, and a much larger number of
the Austrians. Here Bonaparte, fighting
I'm the ranks, gained his famous title Of
LITTLE CORPORAL. which to the end
of human annals will be repeated as his
sobriquet.
Five days afterwards the oonqueror 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 compunction the magnificent art
trophies of the city, and sent them rs fore
tokens of his triumph To Paris. Well he
knew the effect which the news of the
startling events, and his treasures of an
Client art as evidence, would produce on
the Parisians Naples. Modena ana Par
ma went down before him; and the Pope,
becoming petitioner, signed an armistice.
Such was the 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 new Aus
trian army. Before he could reach the
scene of action, Mantua was already be-
sicged by Napoleon. The defense held out
until Wurmsers 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, OH the Bird OF Au-
gust he attacked diriSiOn of Wurmser
and gained complete victory; General
Augercau was the hero of the day. On
the 9Th and 9th of August 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 the onset.
At Riveredo, on the 4th of September the
division of Massena defeated the Austri-
ans with great losses. On the Sth, at Bas-
sano, Napoleon route2 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
Napoleon now sought to settle some OF
the issues of the war. He correspondent
with the Directory; set forth the conefi-
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
Genoa convention for a permanent set
Element.
After Arcole, Wurmser threw himself
into Mantua, and was oooped up In jan
uary, 1897, Austria sent her third army
into the field under General Alvinczy.
This great force proceeded tOicdrds Man.
tua as far as Rivoli, where IL was struck
by Bonaparte and routed with loss OF
about twenty thousand menl At Favo-
rita, on the 10Th, the French were again
victorious. The ruin of AlvincZy'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 Tagliamen-
to, where on the 10th of March, it was
routed by the French. On the 9TH of
April, an armistice was granted by Napo-
leon, and OH the 18th no made with Aus
tria his provisional treaty Of LeOben.
That power was compelled to cede the
Netherlands. and to accept, in hooking
compensation, bit of the state of Venicel
Meanwhile, another coup detat had oc-
Cured i'm Paris. BY violence the two
great Councils of State purged themselves
of fifty alleged Royalists and Anarchists.
Carnot and Barthelemy, members Of the
Directory, were 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 paciflcation.
Openly, Austria should cede the Belgian
provinces, recognize the Cisalpine Repub-
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 to
Paris He shall announce for us the follow
ing results: The campaign of the Army
of Italy has extended from April 18th, 1896,
to October 18th, 1897. We have taken
$50, 900 prisoners; 40 standards; $50 siege
pieces; 900 field guns; five pontoon equi-
pages; nine ships of "a guns; twelve frigates
of 32 guns; twelve corvettes; eighteen gal
legs. We have given liberty" (whatever
that may mean, Generally to Bologna,