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9th of Thermidor accused Adige Alps amidst appointed archduke arms army of Italy arrived artillery Assembly assignats attack Augereau Austrians bank Barras Barrère battle Bonaparte Bretagne campaign Carnot cavalry Charette Chouans Clairfayt command commission committee of public constitution Convention corps Councils courage danger debouched declared decree demanded deputies Directory division emigrants enemy England English excited execution favour force formed France French Fructidor guard Hoche honour immediately Jacobins Jourdan La Vendée Lareveillère lastly liberty Mantua Massena Meuse millions minister Moreau mountains Napoleon negotiation obliged officers Paris party patriots peace persons Pichegru possession Prairial prince Prince of Condé prisoners proposed provinces public welfare Puisaye rendered replied republic republican requisite Revolution revolutionary Rewbel Rhine Robespierre royalists Sambre sent soldiers taken Tallien Thermidor thousand tion treaty tribunal troops Vendée Vendémiaire Venetian Venice Verona victory wished Wurmser young
Populaire passages
Pagina 260 - For his gallantry, he was made a knight of the Bath, rear-admiral of the blue, and appointed to the command of the inner squadron at the blockade of Cadiz.
Pagina 68 - English, determined to destroy himself, and accordingly took his plates of the heart, and compared them with his breast. Exactly in the centre of the plate, he made a mark with a large pin, then fixed the pin as near as he could judge in the same spot in his own breast, shoved it in to the head, penetrated his heart, and expired.
Pagina 67 - Dutch merchant, convicted of being the author and accomplice of a plot which existed in the month of June, 1790, tending to encourage our external and internal enemies, by negotiating by way of loan, certain bonds of 100/.
Pagina 51 - Every thing is going wrong in Italy; the prestige of our forces is dissipated ; the enemy now count our ranks. It is indispensable that you take into your instant consideration the critical situation of the Italian army, and forthwith secure it friends both among kings and people.
Pagina 68 - when taken prisoner and brought to England, was so much grieved at his defeat, that he studied anatomy on purpose to destroy himself. For this purpose he bought some anatomical plates of the heart and compared them with his own body, in order to ascertain the exact situation of that organ. On his arrival in France I ordered that he should remain at Rennes, and not proceed to Paris. Villeneuve, afraid of being tried by a court-martial...
Pagina 112 - Soldiers, the capture of Mantua has put an end to the war of Italy. You have been victorious in fourteen pitched battles and seventy actions; you have taken 100,000 prisoners, 500 fieldpieces, 2,000 heavy cannon, and four pontoon- trains.
Pagina 228 - ... of manner, which was perhaps adopted for the purpose of keeping people at a distance. His look had the same character. When he thought himself closely observed, he had the power of discharging from his countenance all expression, save that of a vague and indefinite smile, and presenting to the curious invest!gator the fixed eyes and rigid features of a bust of marble.
Pagina 52 - I sent him to Florence as ambassador, where he employed himself in nothing but turning over the old musty records of the place, in search of proofs of the nobility of my family, for you must know that they come from Florence.
Pagina 55 - All our superior officers, all our best generals, are hors de combat. The army of Italy, reduced to a handful of men, is exhausted. The heroes of Millesimo, of Lodi, of Castiglione, of Bassano, have died for their country, or are in the hospital.
Pagina 89 - We assert that there exists a conspiracy against the public liberty, that it owes its strength to a criminal coalition, which intrigues in the very bosom of the Convention ; that this coalition has accomplices in the committee of general safety, and in the bureaux...