Original sentence: " Bonaparte, in his dispatch to the Directory, dated 1 October 1796 wrote thus,.Early in 1796 he set out with Bonaparte on the Italian campaign, and at the Battle of Lodi on 10 May contributed to the great victory by a brilliant cavalry charge.I avail myself of a courier which general Bonaparte sends from Romagna (in order to.In October, while in action before the Austrians, who were commanded by the former French soldier turned Austrian veteran Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser.In the Courier du Bas Rhiuy we are told that the French repulsed him with the loss of 1,100 men and five pieces of cannon, and that "their dispositions were made by great General Kilmaine, commander of the siege of Mantua.This campaign increased his high reputation throughout Europe as a truly brilliant officer.announce to the Directory the defeat of the Papal troops), to acquaint you with the capture of Mantua, the news of which I received yesterday evening by a courier from Mantua itself I thought it necessary to announce this circumstance, because General Bonaparte, who is occupied in Romagna annihilating the troops of his Holiness, may probably have been ignorant of this fact when his courier departed
Edited sentence: " Bonaparte, in his dispatch to the Directory, dated the firat day of October wrote thus,.Early in 1796 he set out with Bonaparte on the Italian campaign, and at Lodi (Lombardy), contributed to the great victory by a brilliant cavalry charge.I avail myself of a courier which greneral Bonaparte sends from Romagna (in order to.In October, while in action before the Austrians, who were commanded by the former French soldier turned Austrian veteran Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, the bravest of all brave men.In the Courier du Bas Rhiuy we are told that the French repulsed him with the loss of eleven hundred men and five pieces of cannon, and that "their dispositions were made by great General Kilmaine, commander of the siege of Mantua.This campaign increased his high reputation throughout Europe as a truly brilliant officer,.announce to the Directory the defeat of the Papal troops), to acquaint you with the capture of Mantua, the news of which I received yesterday evening by a courier from Mantua itself I thought it necessary to announce this circumstance, because General Bonaparte, who is occupied in Bomagna annihilating the troops of his Holiness, may probably have been ignorant of this fact when his courier departed