The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-04-22

cclce Ia 81 Po.cfs. The old iron crown
of the Lombard kings was brought forth
from its dusty keep. and was given by the
archbishop OF Milan 10 the Emperor who,
putting il on hi, he'd, uttered the famous
mot, Dieu me Ia donLCc-Gare "A qui la
touchc "God has given it 20 me-Beware
who touches itv'-an aYhor.sm which
became the motto of the Oruor of the Iron
Crown.
The Empire brought four years of con-
tinuous war NAPOLEON became the tram
plcr If vineyards. His armies made Eu-
rope into miro. England-agrceing at
Amiens not To flght--fought. Pitt, now
In the last year of his life used all of his
resources to bring about league against
France. He persuaded Alexander of Rus
STA, Francis of Austria, and Gustavus of
Sweden-all easy dupes of greater than
themselves-to make new coalition. He
tried TO induce Frederick William of Prus-
sia To join his fortunes with the rest; but
the last-named monarch was for the time
restrained by the weakness of prudence.
The agents of Napoleon held out to him
suggestions of the restoration of Hanover
TO Prussia. But Austria and Russia and
Sweden pressed forward confidently to
overthrow the new French Empire. That
Empire should not see the end of the first
year of it's creation!
The Austrians were first in the field.
The Russians, under Kutusoff, came on
into Pomerania from the East Out of
Sweden, with a large army, came down
Gustavus, the Don Quixote of the North,
to crush Bernadotte who held Hanover.
Napoleon for his part sprang forth for the
campaign of Austerlitz, perhaps the most
brilliant military episode in the history of
mankind. With incredible facility he
threw forward TO the Rhine an army of a
hundred and eighty thousand men. His
policy was-as always-to overcome the
allies in detail.
On the cath of September, the Emperor
left Paris. The Empress and Talleyrand
went with him as far as Strasburg. On
the End of October, hostilties began at
Guntzburg. Four days afterwards the
French army crossed the Danube. On the
Sth of the month, Murat won the battle of
Wertingen, capturing Count Auffenberg,
with two thousand prisoners On the 10th
the French had Augsburg, and on the
18th, Munich. On the 14th Soult tri-
umphed at Mcmingen, capturing a corps
of six thousand Austrians; and on the
same day Ney literally overran the terri
of Elchingen. Napoleon outgeneraled the
main division of the enemy at Tim. The
Austrans, under General Mack, thirty
three thousand strong, were cooped up in
the town and, on the 18th of October,
forced to capitulate. Eight field marshals
and generals, including the Prince Lich-
tenstein and Generals Klenau and Fresnel,
were made prisoners. Soldiers of the
Grand Army" said Napoleon, 1--WE have
finished the campaign in a fortnight"
On the day of the capitalization of Ulm,
Massena in Italy drove back the army of
the Archduke Charles. The Austrians to
this date, in a period of twenty days, had
lost by battle and capture fully fifty thou
sand men! On the eth of October, the
French army crossed the Inn. Salzburg
and Braunau were taken. In Italy, Mas
sena, on the 30th, won the battle of Cal
dicro, and took five thousand prisoners
The French closed towards the Austrian
capital On the 18th Of November, Napo-
leon, having obtained possession of the
bridges of the Danube entered Vienna.
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 Gar and Kutusoff, came roar
ing There they were united with heavy
division of the Austrians under the En-
perOr Francis. The latter had fled 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 a semicircle, with
the convex front towards the allies, who
occupied the outer arc on range OF
heights. Such was the situation on the
night of December 1st, 1905. The morrow
will be the first anniversary of our corona
ton in Notre Dame-a glorious day for
battlel
With the morning of the End, Napoleon
could scarcely restrain his ardor. The en-.
thusiasm 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 NOV
ing dangerously in broken masses under
the cover of Moravian fog. Presently
the fog lifted, and the sun burst out in
splendor. The onset of the French was
irresistible. The allied center was pierced
The Austrian and Russian emperors with
their armies were sent flying in utter rou,
and panic from the field. Thirty Thousand
Russians and Austrians were killed
wounded or taken. Alexander barely
escaped capture. Before sunset the Third
Coalition was broken into fragments ant
blown away. AT the conference between
Napoleon and Francis, two days after
wards, at the Mill of Sar- Uschitz, som,
of the French officers overheard the fathe
of Maria Louisa lie to her future husband
thus-"I promise not to fight you an.
more"
Meanwhile, from the borders of Han
over, the Quixotical Gustavus had takeI
to flight, and was eager TO secure himsel
beyond the Baltic. On the gath of Decem
Der, everything was completed by tn
Peace of Pressburg Austria gave up TIL
whole of her Venetian possessions to tn
kingdom of Italy. The Tyrol, Vorarlberg
and Passau went to Bavaria. The latte
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