The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-14
RIVAL Of NAPOLEON
General Moreau, Who Was
BaniShed by the Corsican
AND CAME TO AMERICA
Later Returned, Dying in
AIMS Against France.

Paris, F, ID. 13J-The life of General Mo-
reau has never been written with the
fulnesS VIII Ich is found in modern bdogra-
phies. His end cast a gloom over his be-
ginnings; b pe regnains among the dark
figures of history. His great victories
are mixed tip With the darkest days OF
the French Revo1 Jtion: has name, how
ever, will always be connected with the
famous Repu bLcaIi armies of the Rhine
armies of vo hInte ers, led by young gen.
erals which aston1 she'd the world by their
endurance and the ir audacity, and which
paved the way foI the brilliant successes
of the Empire. II he history of Moreau 6
campaigns belong chiefly to the period
of the Directory; he deserved to be con-
sidered as the VI )rthy rival of young
General Bonaparte whose first campaigns
in Italy astonishe d the world and began
a new era in the terrible art of war.
The operation the armies of the
Rhine in 1896, aftel the defeat of JoJurdan
ended in Moreau'si famous retreat, which
was co usidered a.; great a feat as a VIC
tory When the Archduke Charles, after
having crushed Jourdan's forces, forced
him to r,ecross the Rhine, Moreau had
already crtFssed 4 le Danube and the Lech
and was on his way to Munich When he
heard of JoLUdanis retreat, he found him
self isolated; he Immediately began his
retreat by the valA ey of the Danube, hav-
ing sixty thou sand men following him in
the rear, and eXpe citing to find sixty
thousand AustG-ians in the passes back of
the Black Forrest lie fought a battle on
his way, gained it, ent through the VAL
ley of He'll oval d'l1nfer,) and reached
the Rhine in perfect order AFTER a march
of ewenty-six days. After a petty en-
gagement with the ad vance guard of the
Archduke, he recrosse,l the Rhine by the
bridges OF Breisach an d Huningen. This
splendid retreat gave Mareau a high
place among the generals of mis- time, and
he was looked upon as a worthy rival Of
Gen. Bonapalr5e.
1 cannot follow Moreau in his success
sive campaigns His reputation grew from
year to year, alSi, otter the battle of Ho-
henlinden, equalled that of Napoleon. The
imperial army of the Danube in 1900 was
a hundred thous and strong. under the
Archduke John Agoreau had a hundred
thousand men bet ween the Isar and the
Inn The operations of the armies Of the
Rhine and Of Italy are to be haE;nonized.
The Archduke John suffered a great de-
feat at Hohenlinden; he lost six thousand
men and sixteen thousand prisoners. The
Austrians retreated in the greatest dis
order; in twenty days they lost forty
thousand men and a hundred and fifty
guns. Vienna was terrified. The Emperor
fhn to 10 k,.ay dbl
Charles L, but it was too late When
the Archduke saw the state of the army
he begged the Emperor to make peace at
any price Moreau, who had arrived at
Steyer. consented to on ar mfstice on con-
dition that Austria would treat sepa-
rately from England, and that the fort
resses of Tyrol and Bavaria should be
placed in the hands of the French
From the day of Hohenlmden, Moreau
! became a formidable rival to Napoleon;
he became during the Consulate even a
centre of opposition Many of the gener-
ais and officers of the armies of the
Rhine were hostile to the heroes of the
armies of Italy, who had become richer.
more popular; they affected the Republi-
| can ways and manners of the first armies
of the Revolutionary period, in contrast
with the more frivolous manners of the
brilliant officers who surrounded Napo-
! leon, and who already formed a sort of
court. The Republicans, those whom Ma
poleon afterwards called the catalogues,
/ thought to find in Moreau the head of a
real Republic, of a wise and constitution
al government; the royaIists imagined
that Mareau would be tempted some day
to play the part of Monk
Moreau heard them all. and gave no
definite hope to anybody; his chief pas
sion was Jealousy of Bonaparte-a jeal-
! ousy which became a real hatred, and
was increased by purely personal consid-
eratons The vanity of his wife and his
mOther-in-law Madame Hnlot, had been
wounded by the First Consul and Ma
rame Bonaparte. The relations between
| Napoleon and Moreau became such that
in the great trial of 1904 of the royaIist
Gearge Cadoudal and Pichegru. Moreau
was designated by Napoleon as their ac-
complete and condemned to two years
Imprisonment He was held up as pro-
moter of civil war, as an agenh of foreign
Powers. There seems little doubt that
Napoleon desired and expected that the
judges would condemn Moreau to capital
punishment. He found the punishment
too lenient not wishing Moreau to remain
in rance, even in prison. At Fouche's In
stigation, Madame Moreau went to Jose
phine, the new Empress, with a letter in
which she asked her husband permission
to go to the United States. Napoleon al
once committed the sentence rendered
against Moreau into perpetual exile. No
reau started for the United States the
day of the execution of Cadoudal and his
friends His name was struck from the
army rolls. His private property wa.
sold; under cover Of Pouches name, Ma,
poleon bought his hotel in Paris. which
he gave to ernadotte, and the estate OF
Grosbois. which he gave TO Berthier. Mo
reau was not allowed 10 start for III.
United States from England; he received
a passport for Cadiz and left Europ,
from Spain. At Barcelona he was JOINED
by Madame Moreau and their young son
from Barcelona they went 70 Cadiz
where q few days afterwards, Madam
Moreau was confined and had a daught
er. They were obliged TO remain severa
months and left only in July, ISO5, in al
American shia.
Talleyrand sent special instructions Wit
regard 10 General Moreau 10 the Frencl