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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. SUWAROW'3 LAST CAMPAIGN. Suwarow joins SuwAROW, having received the rank the army. Of Field-Marshal in the Austrian army, and the Emperor's instructions regarding his operations, quitted Vienna, after a solemn invocation of the Divine assistance in the cathedral of St. Stephen. At Villach, he overtook his countrymen, marching by an Austrian route from St. Polten, which they had left on the 12th March, doing fifty-one German miles in twenty-six days. He altered this, and they did the remaining fifty-two miles to Verona in ten. He reached Verona on the 9th April, and as its garrison defiled before him, he exclaimed, Oh their step is good. Victory victory At the palace prepared for him, the mirrors were ordered out, and straw was ordered in; he received the compliments of the municipality, and the blessing of the Bishop, issued a stirring procla- to the Italians, promising the protection of God and the victorious Imperial armies to the well- conducted, and a musket-ball and confiscation of property to the supporters of the French republic; and on the morning of the 15th, set out for the Austrian head-quarters near Valeggio. On meeting General Kray, he said, It is to you, sir, I shall owe the success I hope to meet: you have shown me the way to victory. . .. The seizure of Piedmont, Switzer- Seoond ooali- tion land, and the Papal territories by the unprincipled French government in 1798, justified, if it did not excite, the second coalition against France, of which England, Austria, Russia, Naples and Turkey, were the members; but the king of Naples, prematurely commencing hostilities, was driven from his Italian dominions, before the mightier continental powers had drawn the sword. Early in 1799, the Archduke Charles in Bavaria, Belle- ...
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