Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-03
"The World One Hundred
Years Ago Today"
(Copyri ghted, 1900. by r. L. Hughes.
LouiSVille.)

LouiSVille.)
At Hohenlinden, Bavaria, the Aus
trians, commanded by Archduke John
We're defeated With great loss by the
French under General Moreau. 1t was
a hard-fought battle, the imperialists
killed and wound amounting to 10000
men, n their loss in prisoners to 10000
more. Tie forces opposed were nearly
equal in nunber.
The other great battle of the year was
at Marengo, in north Italy, on june Il,
shortly after Napoleon had made his
memorable passage of the Alps. The
French army was commanded by Bona
parte himself. The Austrians utnum
bered the French three to one, and the
latter We're at first driven back, but the
obstinate resistance of Desaix. who had
just arrived from Egypt, n the charge
of the brave kellerman, changed the re-
suit. The battle ended in a complete
overthrow of the Austrian army. Among
the killed on the side of the French was
the heroic Genera Desaix. The slaugh-
ter on both sides was dreadful. Ma
poleon compared the advance of the Aus
TRANS during several hours of the battle
to the extraordinary power of the Britt
ish column displayed at the battle OF
Fontenoy, Belgium, So years before, be-
tween the French and the English,
Hanovarians, Dutch and Austrians.
BY a treaty etwee the Austrian gen.
eral, Melas and Bonaparte. signed the
day following Marengo, the latter OBJ
tanned twelve strong fortresses and be-
came the master of Italy.
The very day of the battle of Marengo,
Kleber, whom Napoleon had left in
charge of the army in Egypt, was assas-
sinated by a Turki fanatic, and shortly
afterward the entire French force was
obliged to surrender to the English. The
| French reVerses in Egypt, however, were
soon MADE TIP oy fresh victories in Eu-
rope. Moreau's success at HOhenlinden
was not the first of the year, although
the most important, as 1t opened the
way to Vienna. His army of $50, 900 had
invaded Germany and defeated the Aus
TRANS three times in May-at Engen,
Moeskirch and Biberach. At Hochstadt,
a city on the Danube, in Bavaria, he won
again in June. A few days after the
battle of Marengo the city of Genoa, in
northern Italy, was surrendered to the
French. During May and half of June
it had been ~blockaded by a British fleet
and the Austrian army, until, literally
starved, it was evacuated by capitula>
ton. SO
III pdllIc VI IlcIlCllillliCIt q lilC e
suit of the termination of the armistice
between France and Austria, the nego-
tiation for peace between France and
England having failed. This victory and
that of Marengo broke the power of Aus
tria, 50 that nothing remained for the
emperor but to accept such terms as
france chose to dictate. The peace of
Luneville followed, which confirmed the
cessions made by the treaty of Campo
Formio; stipulated that the Rhine to the
Dutch territories should form the bound-
airy of France, and recognize the Bata-
Wan, Helvitic, Ligurian and Casalpine
republics. England was now the only
country that remained at wal with
France.
Another crowned head bowed to the
scepter of the grim reaper Ernest Fred
erick l. duke OF SaXe-CGburg, died, hav-
ing reigned Sc years, during which the
land was plunged into bankruptcy SO
that an imperial commi ssion was APP
pointed on his death to manage the
finances. just a century before Albert
the second son of Ernest the Pious, who
founded the elder line of Saxe-Coburg,
died childless, and it was not until now
that his possessions, the subject of ve-
hement contentious amongst the other
Saxon houses 100 years, We're finally dis
tributed.
knight of london first published a
process for rendering platinum i'm its ma
tive state amenable to mechanical work.
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.Jute was introduced into England
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