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Show I, I , , SECTION ' TWO - '. - - , , . , . .. ' ' .' ' . . .. 1 , EVENING. ' NEWS , SATURDAY MARCH IDESERET - : , . - ' - - Marengo, - . - . n , WOn ' , ... t - .1 ,44 i 0 1..,s if - , . , , . , , ,.. er 4a- . i , - . , , , , . - , . - .. . , - l; ' The Battle That' Won a Crown , . ' t . I)ATES ' 1 May May i Juno Jurnt i June June Ioiiii; 1 , !L - ,... - 211, .,,..11011, 1 1$1011 'Z. 1800 2t. 18110 J5. 1800 sl ,,- r 1,71';'- Napoleon renamed the Alpo. Passed Fort of Itarti. Entered Milan. Mussel's eurrendored Genoa. 'tattle of Marengo. f I thtly tiarnation of.tpper '..'. by Austria. Nano leer returned to Pari. lkol- r 1 IA -( I III 1 I 1;;;;: -- VI I I 11 tr-- 4;:r .::.; p.s,!,,tka,a,.nrir-. ,,, ,,,. . Jao4 .. sr , - er - 1 I jf, !,, ti t ,44111.,61 It 1 b .v.aV t'4.41:' . Itk- 4 -J 11,44,T; ...........) 63 f..:' u 11' ApLE.,s. .. 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While teW1 fórgtahgeesd he received convincing reports that not only had Napoleon also that the 1 crossed the Alps, hut t; i, French infantry and faime of their cav- l' airy had passed the Fort of Bard by Il a goat path over a mountain 1 climbing 'Ithat rose above the castle which still :i i 1 stands like a watch dog in the narrow VI IA -I ii ,,ya of the bora Baltea. I Before Napoleon himself had made , the passage and while 'he was yet at :t. Martigny in Switzerland. word had come back to him that a little Austrian ; : garrison in the Fort of Bard was blocking the advance of his forces into Italy. :' If that Austrian Outpost should hold s them uplong enough to summon reinit. ( forcements fromi Gen. Ifelas. th.e speci: tacular crossing of the Alps would pass into history as a fool's errand and Nailpoleon would be covered with condem,. nation at tome and ridicule abroad. He I had staked his own fortunes and probably the existence of the republic itself '., to win or lose on a single chance. If the conditions were reversed, if he had the Austrians in such atrap, he , i, would not let 'them escape him... But t, he never assumed that the enemy was 1, as clever'as he, and he always reckoned F. I hink-Aoon his boldness-the cold logic of a situation. , the French , ease with which illitlil (Ped out of the trap at the Fort of 4 I3a,rd is really incredible. They simply .. wrapped the rattling parts of their gun carriages, and spread a carpeting of on the pad .before the fort manure , - , in the darkness of night, after. which 11 i i,,': I I . ; , , i,,,,i. '; ;;. f,.....-- . -g ;." ' t.,.. , 4; FIT k.4...) I' i ci A 1 -- ::i,,- LEJlaytorm (o 1 - L....,,,,..41... ' o. . : - , - i I ',1....;;;;;.2-12- . li 1;.. o ; i' . k i, -,-- t 1 , ,I , I, ) instantly. 't,,,- then there lanot a' to pe lost." ' - In this in:stance dispatches passing kövermient and :between Its artily had intercepted, and I Vourriennf yead.be.en to his -awakened ' - m- . -, .1 cut the enemys communications with. Vienna and eut While o.fl. the Austrian line of retreat. he slept , in his Milan palace. Bourrienpe enteled his room at 4 o'clock In the morning. anti shook his ti rill until he --succeeded in arousing him. His seVe444-4,y--e r4, 71 ), tr.,, the as enter chamber Ing night my . seldom a's possible. Do not wake nee when you have,any good news to çommunicate; with that there iti no ' B. t. ou bring badtiews, arouse e0 , . Milan, , . .. I - . , , ' a ... '' . .. . , ' C;k) 1 ' . A', ..., . ) ., , ,,.,1 ... 'lc"' -- . 1 '..,..' 1 171:1 (,11.) , ; -) 4 '1k I1 I l';$ ...- -- , , 11 I i A V ,,i L.t. oc ;, 's-- x,,t1 " ( t 1 .'w 4 - , A - , ("1, ,6t.:1 Among the Dead.- I fr? "... It ao 1,,111,v 1 74--ki - I MeoFirill t HC ,e. 04 40 , ' , , 1,, r'P' 4; , t- '--I 1 a 4. 11 4114.-. ' (,) e ta gs.,. 4.(4 j(Li: I - '''' ' . 1 - ; . 41 , , " ' .. . 0. 0 ', I '1h ;:: A 5 4(I'C.1 ' ' ri 1' 1 . 111PMEIMI I i this ef posterity. Cairo:Paris and years I - I k rn 1 it: - - A Breathing Time of Peace., Out of the battle of Marengo came a. war-woPeace, the first that world had known since monarchical , Europe combined against the French ., NLN Revoluti n eight years before. was re&dtn lay down her arms at III ) 1 t, but her ally., Great, Napoleon'', Britain, whej battlefield was the sea, had not f t he heavy hand of the ,,',.,, o?Iqueror. (I shsk,gave him peace en .... 461,MOVISeJ, ir , the wutersI7e would be able to reinforce his kWm, in Egypt and keep his foothold in thee east- ,' , The British. therefore, sent the Austrians an extra subsidy for the - ti ditei continuance of the Campaign against 41 France in Germany, which, however. was brought to a disastrous end by Gen. Moreau in a great French vie- '4 "do you hear the acclamations re- tOrV at Hohenlinden in the December to sweet es is , sounding? That noise 11 following Marengo. me as the voice of Josephine. 'How 4t Napoleon now showed hardly less loved and am to be I by 'proud hiippy skill in the rams of diplomacy than in t; such a people," the game of war. 4 He made his moves like an adept 1 chessman, He brought Allatrin to Marengo Today. ' harder term than he had IMPOSesa 1 at When in the course of my journey Campo Formio two rears before. Closed In "The Path of Napoleon," a taxicab an ugly quarrel with the 'United ti States, carried me out of Alessandria, over 0141 made- a trade with Pipain for Louisiana !I Bormida, which I,could have dipped and Promoted a feud between Russia 1, dry with a dipper, and across the his. and the Baltic powers against Great torte-tee- th er Fentazione,-- I found- et Beitatnrerbkit becks-m- it into Itsmat------ -,1 Marengo Oa beet cherished of all the war. culminating in the battle of Cop. . , fields of Napoleon's victorleo. They nharen lie generally In Alien lands among con. The British, with a population of 17.- tittered peoples, who naturally have 000.000. found themselves abandoned ' .not done much ' to commemorate Ills and alone in the long struggle with Pirttrice which now numbered 40,000,000 triumphs over them. His Italian t however, were not won against people. Since the 'war began In 1714, Itallamt but agalnir AustriaLi and the expenditures of Great Britain had In the end United Italy slowly rose risen from $100.000,000 a year to $300- .to independence from the battle- 000,000, the income tax had been raleed s to 10 per cent and the national debt grounds of Napoleon, The last of these, the climax, was stood at $2.750,000,000. Beneath those seemutated burdens tMarengo. Ile fondly. planned the 'erection of a monumental city there, a the relief that peace , ,t t city of victories, with beautiful ave- would bring, although looking upon it nues bearing the names of his generals as hardly more than a brief truce. an t and adorned with temples and oculptu- experimental peace, as her statesmen a r.-vi. But those castles of glory re- described it. She did not yield until mained in the air, never emerging from the French had lost Egypt and until his dreams into reality. tong after she herself had little to lose from a his belles were dust and his sword was breathing spell. t rust a patriotic Italian of Alessandria But it was no more than a poet- bought Marengo and made it a Napot- Ponement of the inevitable de7 of forward reckoning. Louis XIV pushed enni(' museum. o have About. all t here wee - to the village thafrottlergorTrittlea-ontrtwhen the battle immortalized Its name them rolled hack by jealous neighbor was an old roadside tavern. with its under Louis XV. When the Revolution t Stables and sheds and its ancient was smelled by forilirn coalitions. the the 'invaders armies drove to which republiean ascribe' a'paltower, legend ace erected there by Theodoric some from French soil and enlarged the 3, 1,4410 years the stony boundaries and influence of France ago. Against sides et those structures the red tide of omxoparendinodsilhyemeansinthwa 14111ItwtillasX1Veerthaladn battle surged and the leaden hall pelted ' us the &Mending armies took and re- that this immense preponderance of 4 prance could not be maintained bt la. took the sheltering walls. poieon, without fighting all Europs sooner or later. Nor could he leld i A Memorial Palace. inch of rround without risk of being , The tavern still stands by the road, driven from power at home, ' nd The treaty between Entfland along which trolley line now signed at Arniene makto It way, dad Its sign, "Alberge Franee..which, was of memYorktown Marengo" is eovered with the scars of by Lord Cornwallis, time if not of battle. The Albergo is ory. and by Joeeph Bonaparte. enabled his and one Napoleon, however,and-t- e unchanged by the years. for & Ibne exchange the might say unswept by the generations, sword of the soldier for the council of t, that have ((one. end gone since Na- -, camp polem sat in its lee, beating up the the etatesman. , dust with his riding whip. But against its wall and behind an iron fence, A Glant Among Kings. with golden tipped pikes and lances An extraordinary condition of 'IMPS , and battle axes on top of it, there I.. ' i rises the monumental palace built by among the head of the other principal the Alussandrian citizen. states of Europe gave NaPoleon a great , I passed within this fence to find a d vantage were ides Prance there, ' honor and five important powers in that day. and i myself in the court of . 1 I 44 'N trt A711,11, . N 4wow, .1- , '! It 'a , , 0 t, , , .4.4444F,'7.1 ) ;TA - 00 0 0 . ,..... : gl,) rodttl, 'bf64 ' , P st 1 ' rkt ':, .. t.:;:th- -t ) 1 A' ,, 1....Ak ':. , 3 4,,tql .., ,) , ' i l'6.gr"."ftliO'4,,,LV ;;9111Ftt. tli ,to,,,, ' e:,'.. .. l.,::" ,it....-- - : At ., ,1 1: , ,, 1 rioexot 01,Por - 1. Out in a pretty park--th- ere are 2110 - 41 acres in the reservationIs a.marble bust of the fallen general in the midst of a leafy solitude:his oulders;chin,': 4, cheeks and brow black with theserthl. bled Italian nameit '1'1' of visitors. A ia 8iy bellLT(10 rises. in the shade of great trees anattartigatnst its in- --wall. Through an opening In the, nr center of the floor. a heap of hence d, t surprises the gaze. There in that pit are gathered the g. relies of tite.;slain in at common pile. where. the boys of France and the ! boys of Austria are mingling their dust as they mingled their blood In. le the creek nut on the plain. May that muto brotherhood of the grave be neath the trees of Marengo he t Prophecy of the brotherhood of man In the good time when battle flags , shall be furled and war drums beat, - I, ' no morel otO 4ikoiaawA4.44. - TLE P QFr MARE,HGO TH E - BAT CROM All , 94 ,e, ' .' I ' ,vre' - '11,,, , me 9 :.; 4 - I ten i.mturies. hishryat r -- - .) 'vie-tort- t Fongland--weloom- - T - A Great Football Field. the famous battlefields were appdinted such by fia,ture and not .by stral,egists. We hear of warriors selecting,Vieljy of centhat, but they OIy 'seek imtdie phices chosen 'Ior them long .ages- - before they were born, generally beside,a titram or imoking down front,the old legendary tower of Thoodorip,- - the 4 great ostrogoth, Which still rises among the orchard trees of Marengo, one Sees a lazy little creek meandering over the broad ,plairt that lies before the eastern gate of Alessandria. The plain is like a great football field, bordered on either side by hilts that .rise like the tiers- of a grandstand.- - with the river Bormida washing the old walls- Of Alessan'dria ., at- one end and the Stroke of had-reap- , ed .13 Defeat. - Turneito , 'tit"-shea- the Gen.-MelaS- hint-mov- years--eAustr- - , s- ia , tllit Lht tun-a-tight ! - - 4 i, . . , - "--- - - fickvever,-.4017-Irren- , . - ch .. , ,.. - - - - have-forsake- - - .f ., ',", , 114 , a , r, ' 1. - slow-goin- , z '''i, r-- i. , ''' t -- -' li , - ' . 1 ' y, -- ip - - , - A k , ,. .,., I I II 1.1 - ' , :.4' - . j', k 1 r. ,Ir ' 'A, R '1,,,c- c .., , 11 ,..,, -,-- ' I on-hi- i;early - t- - :, ., , ii , ,..., ' ,,", ' , A ''' , ::, II, 4 ,.. ...i. .1 &.."---; .1 . -- Thj battle came before either side was properly prepared for it., Taken by surprise. Melas had been able to assemble of his immense but widely scattered forces only attiut 30,000 all , ' - , ,e;,...- - - ; v.- "- I ,..,t. ia , ,f ' .3 s; - - -- , a ,..,,o(ktafi() ,,, ": ,:: '' , 1' . - ..4 ,,,, ' ,' . ' ' I 71117 , f 4) '- 4 3 ,1 ilab.le sand Utth .1 soldier for whom he felt a greater fondness than tor any other in the !army, and he said that death had eihut his heart to the Joy of victory. Bourrienne tells tin the genetal-in-chiA few more like campaign (Marengo) seemed on the point of crying as he exIn tiny my name may perhaps go down to claimed! "What a triumph thie would have been if I could have embraced two have conquered Milan. Demotic on the field Then But Nv e re to die tomorrow should occupy only half .he added, wrth ituivitly rising spirits, . made a luck "Little ,Kellermann a page Of'general thfLeudof. ,,, t.éri it ige.- - 'We- ii reTrit0IfIritiebtM 16 Tan: You Se e What trifling circtunstartees Quoted by Bourrienne. To the general decide Aheee affairs. , himself he only remarked, "You made heights of San Giuliano rising at tile hastening to the scene with his MOO a pretty good charge," and Kellermann other end of the gridiron, while the men. Is said to have replied: "I am. glad At this news the tiny rivulet Fontanone. is the vanquished sniffed, you are satisfied. I have just .placed a ehanee of victory. line. At what hour the crown Of France on your head." Across that mere broOklet the bat- did you leave Desaixr he inquired as if he dared rettliy It Is doubtful tle of Marengo was fought. There, by he pulled out hi wateh. "Well, then, to say such a thing to Napoleon'a face, be far off nnw. lint 'but the steep Wanks of a reedy ditch, the it la certain that as N.apoleon to the 15 was quit of for decided .main, road and keep out always dated Mil nobility from Monte-th- e Europe history none, he dated his royalty from Maryears. At 2 o'clock of a June after- of the way of the wounded going to noon it .was decided favorably to rAu- rear, for they rilightdraw his 011 rm. eng0and they are not 50 tulles apart by neropiane. stria and adversely to France, for then diers after them." Kellermann earned a double portion Gen on Desais, hurrying ahead of of gratitude at Marengo. Me las had crossed the creek and Napoleon lad not eaten for hours.- when at 10 stnaahed Napoleon's army Into frag- his command, found his general-Inchie- f in a council of war. Most of the o'clock at night Kellertnann spread be- ments. Many of the French were in fore him and his generals a bountiful Circle of generals tvere urging a rea rout, but others stubbornly contested-supper which had been brought from a e treat. Desais, however, raised conventbut history does not record the ground .inclyby inilt as they for u renewal of the tight. One the presence of chicken tWi.DdialMirfg the plain. retreated over slowly is lost," he said, "hut it ill only on that menu! battle a of head Lannes, farling back at the 3 oclock. Therc is time enough to Win A Luck. small brigade, yielded only a mile in another.- -, Hut the Consular two hours. at last his Napoleon probably Napoleon at 'Iwo eprang into ills guard Itself gave way under a blazharvest of glory on a field saddle his white horse 'greatest. and spurred fire. where his .genius shone at its poorest. ing artillery aitiong his retreating troops, forming Although he had correctly foretold tht l in in line them front of San battle nearly three months, it found again Napoleon in Giuliano. His cocked hat blew off. but him unready and abseut from thelfeene than half over. The battle of :Marengo was- lost, he rode on bareheaded through the until the fight was.more As he aw his army smash e d and -Ver'y with Napoleon it. and likely, ranks, shouting: My. friends, we have driven from the plain, he .contrivefi no chances for eilipire, A messenger fallen back far enough. Remember, sot- - timely expedient, no brilliant exploit hastily stole away to carry to the diers, it is my habit to bivouac oft the to turn the engulfing tide of disaster. and he was saved at last by Desaix enemies of the first .consul in Paris field of benne:. Iand by Kellermann, the welcome news that fortune had Success came to him only as a stroke 'deserted' him. Revolutionary Paris of luck. Yet It rightfully belonged to Victory, him. in accordance with the rules that need no longer fear his. iron hand. As the sun was deacending to the govern our world, of .chance. He hail , suffering from the heat horizon the Atistrians leisurely surmounted the Alps and played Alpine, and burdened with his 70 (nen' Marengo, with self Where luck could find him, where forward persisteil in her 'policy of send- colors flying and bands playing. They a few .of Desaix's muskets and Keller- horses could win a great vie, ing Old mOn to whip this Corsioan were content to makexertain that the mann's The battle of tory. :Marengo really. for hie fiiild,of victory the youthleft enemy left the field and retreated, for was won as Napoleon lay on the floor Alessandria. Having to all the 'pld 'generals of in March, sticking red headquarters in Europe war ,of the Tullorie's five of the French the etiap .of Italy. end Mark-JutF.ii4,11VC41 all but 'an littelminabie genie of wasoniY. The morning after the battle the ea414on.,4twa3tl1ne for the ailed gen- checkers, and On 1 Piltice 74 ITO tit e enkt in ea n eral to he down and filetate a,rePort, they went until they were within NO' Alessandria to sue for terms of peaye. first .COnalll,. whose feet are planted with unbalanced minds, while the rut. on block of red granite from the ere of the remaining.two were erOwDed telling the emperor of Austria how,- paces of Desaldfe lone, but without Napoleon off:!red to let Gen. Melas and Alpsa which he crossed towrite the mediocrities, and name of he had slain the Goliath of the Revo:- seeing it through a, field of high stand.; his army retire beyond the Mincio,LomMarengo On the list of his For a month at a time the progresS Filance in possession of victories. Palace walls riming behnion with the pebbles of the brook. ing wheat and. the thick leaves of a thus leave The his- - initanity left George III incat- hardy and Piedmont. The prince de- hind and on one aide of the court of of with Fontanone: of holding communication able but "Sir, vfaeyard that iereenc(1 the French. Napoleon rephyd: murred, honor are entirely covered with most the British Meanwhile Napoleon was sitting oii ministry,. Charles IV, king tarry- my final determination to your amazing frescoes, deptcring the spires, of the hidden army sprang hie in Suddenly his day Spain, passed half la flitITIPAS the ground, behind the sheltering the surprised Austrians and out of general and return quickly. It weil s in a,lae acam as I that oc8 Naof belvideres itnow palacem, templet; and :1.118 oT the illtie vIage nt MareffirnT blouse, while the remaining half the grain and the vines blazed a heavy quainted with your you are poison's dream City of Victories, ail in the forest with hundreds the eOnsular guard drawn up alnut musketry Pre. The line of white coats youreelvea. I did notpotion begin to learn the theY might have looked If his. dream' tborer's and servants. abandoning the wail yesferdaY. t might inalet on had come true. out o f this gorgeous of him. His, maps were spread beside wavered, hut quickly rallied. art Soon, of his kingdoni to GodOY. at full , harder conditions, but I moderate my the victor float 'him, but he was not looking at them,- cavalry under demands in consideration of the gray fantasy, pararpour of his queen. Paul. the etrowns him' With vhile Victory lengt Ithlt soldiers his of It' usala. was a prey to eccen, nOr seemingly at fleeing young Keitermann dashed upon their hairs of your general." laurels, and litesaix. Keliermann and tricities and violent outbursts that as they passed him. lie did not lift flank and tarried El lens' among the At the:nine time: the first consul other gepertils.arts also portrayed, the old amohnted to rnadnmei. The throne of an effort to rally them. Austriana.. Their ranking officer and ventured to address the emperor of liack.ofath..; palace are hts finger-I- n echo- Pruesia was oceupied hy a' weakling. sheds.. and stable tavern a still, with for AustriaAtrectly anappeal seethed to 11,000 men were taken prisoners. ' while rrancis I it ing to the imagination the mkians of Frederick IVIIiiam III. abandonment war, of the definite of strong him. as he .14k1 t there heating up the fellows who steel; although a man The French ,line began to advance, communication which he opened with th4 poor wounded, mon. front the battlefield; A character, was a narrow-minde- d 'there carried, :4 on the dust With hiirrilling whip. dramatic , Picture: this , be-a 'It and the victor of stage- coach of the Emp'ress .Marre artsh bound to a ;lead past----.field of Marengo. inthe midst of gut. cemnan.V stalked intnthe tore foUnd..:themselves LOulsahas tiro Vdtpoleon lbeett : ughtfrattlsome,, tering and aurropnded by 15,000 corpses, where and in alt Its gaudiness; In- of the royal ipcompetents a giant. He .. Rallying Routed-Armyamong the MOO dead and Wbunded ly- that 1onjUre your mateety to listen (47 stalled in , barn. flattered the passions of the ezar and a shabby lie tflI entertained a hol5e however, ing on the Wain. The retreating 'white the cry of humanitY." , Iiinfeelf toward the reigning fam- - silent. Within untenanted halace the bore to let the Itself. IM While the emperor efused Austrians coats, hurried Past Marengo. jumped of the ily in Spain as if be had been appoint- a that before the gorgeous Gallery end an his Apotheomis, and there Are also chem. ed Italian disaster bring to by a probate court to be their guard. from .their victori and the creek and then ran for their lives other recovered in bers lined with campaign against the'French muskets. Ian. While the Prussian king yielded , pistols. the river over, it to the 'flormida, for measures :bridges up, following, had adopted recaptured ttwords,- sabera. knives and all man- to Cs mastery. Germany. Napoleon All ner of .Gen. Desals, whom he had ordered where it nowslikbetweet Alessandria Italy in a day, yes, in an hour. nutty, murderous things raked The republic'. sew Ate ,elected chief the. swbrd beneath cowed on battlefield. When In from the battlefield: The table 'night fell Europe lay and the overlord of royal 'Eutxrpe- elsewhere, rnlght yet come to the resnation rising to chal- which Napoleon it; said to have writ- - the lii13-1there was not an Austrian in arms on of Marengo. no cue. While he waited and hosed, by James Idorgan.) .Ion bit4 letter to th emperor. of Aux, (Copyright. or lenge it until live years had posited. in Deems. the- peld of Marengo: As, Napoleon haitened back to Paris .tia has,been breuglit there, with the law NEN? IGivo'.;--6Desaix had been killed at the head I he was borne along tura wave of .ap- I Veritable' quill, the veritable dashed up to report that his general, tikJO' Homo''' and the' etieetated Cod N:p4olon, he be in It, boat column. bad .horit his Bourriettue," dipped. "Well, sound .a Napoleon 'Of of was the heard litileh, pIaue. battle,, having said: r ... . t 4 mil t. - kj4.1'.' i... ripik, 4" 4frA .....4L,,k4k. , it.,1.1 , "it, ..! - . ' , events The Battle of Marengo. , to, , Napoleon's Measure of His Fame , Napoleon he' completely V, 11,we , -- " letter front the authorities at Vienna assured Gen. Meier, there was no such thing as a French ermy of reserve and that he should advance into France without paying tiny attention to the incredible talcs about Napoleon (Tossing the Alps. But Avhen the secretary read a letter front Midas. announcing that Maesena had surrendered Genoa to the Austrians, Napoleon for a moment was unwilling to believe it. .1111L. exelrdurd ,zou do derstand German." Genoa really had fallen. but the French there had held out long enough to rietain the Austrians from advanelng into France until Napoleon had thorn by the coat tails.. They were nowshut in between him and the Alps, and instead of invading France they must tura in an effort to cut their way to safety through the French ranks that covered the roads across Italy: A t ., : , chief. - ,Fall of Genoa. ' then hastened t,T,e- . Atessantitithenthe- Frencit presented themselves before the brick wall of that town, an irnportant place 6(1 miles south of Milan. Napoleon, s part, had neglected for once his adopted maxim that "God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions." He had tempted fate by so clIspersing his army es to bring perhaps only 20,000 Mtn to the field of action .41,,nd only 40 guns to meet the fire of the 200 Austrian guns. Although be had long counted on Melas at 'Alessandrla, he had lost faith in his own predictiort. He rode in a hard rain almost to the town gate the day before the battle, and finding no signs of a large force pres-ent there, he went away. When, thebefore, Melas sallied out,orthe gate the next morning at tweak of daY, there was only A thin ,French line drawn across his avenue of escape. For five hours this small force had Attr,ggled to restrain the aAtjance of the Austrians, when at 10'.0'00ek Napoleon galloped- upon the scene of battle for the. first time with his old guides, now the consular guard, and Wearing the cloak which was destined tla'y dragged, their artillery silently to coVer his cofflitiA-heniwag borne riOscs of the sleeping past Under,7the to the willows at , , garrison. 4 VA, doesumboq., 41. : ''' e 0 4 C..49.."1.4. - -- 'i i ...., 1,!N anip,,,,a, C.:44tN - ', 4'- . . - . .. 7 ?1.11Ik :741)-- 4 ,, 0- ,,.,,- 4 ,.1,,...,,,,,no. -- ; "s...400,1P i3104, ,'.' , (...1 , ,,,, . ; A . r...1,., :- , , ' - 4,... 0 M. , '' , ' , At., t ler t 1,, , 40,,..,...,,....:,,..,,,,..t I ,. 'T 4 , 41 . ,,, ..!!-4' p - ,- ' :ty . .,' '...'l 4fle 2 i 4 pi Ilk, 4 I - , !I ,,.4 VIAREtIGO ' ne,motkili; ' ...;,.;7 igl.: ; ,,ees ' or . ,"S, '''.1:414Altelrb... It"I: , ! , Escaping a Trap. t i .' STATUE OF NAPOLCOM the 15aid ' i k I i ' ahleh be dried hie ') letter and ihe veritable receptacle 'tor ' hwitter in which 'he left the quill when finished. A hialt;: alenderhacked chair,- - like-- a piele ut. puildt he is reputed td r 't furniture, have satrand nappedla treasured In' a .glasa casc,-an- d abeve it are a nobby chapeau end a sword 'and scab-- ' bard crossed. They belonged -- to .. not Desals, but presumably were aunt in the battle, for tiavary records that ghouls bad stolen everything un "1,,t'"' - him and stripped him naked before I his hod; Wa8 cold- - - , 77, 7 rr-- tA: 1, so, t''..''' , other Aisssandria, t , ...,1,,,-- , -- . "oth. '1,,o, - e '' ", r ' ' 41::--...- ''L'6 le4e. .1,I,r knov, ?" I you fool,' the floor. "Nielas is at with his litatiçuarters. There he will remain until Genoa surrenders. Crossing the Alps here." and he pointed to a red pin at the Great St.. Bernard, "I shall Ifall upon him, cut IIIM t;ornmunications and meet him there," pointing to a red pin at an Giuliano. "Poor M. de Melas," he chuckled: "he through Turin, fall back upon Silso'I andrias I shall .CTOSEI the Po, overtake him orv.the road to Piacenza, on the plains' of the Scrivia. and I shall beat him just there, just there!" It was in June, MO, nearly three til 4 ', li.itirriern -- 114 , :flow the devil should (t. 4: ''',, - 4 ''' triers c '. ",,,,, , ' tryk .N 4 ,,..; ;''t 7., 3 fi . ikftJet A . , rk 44 I ; A - 7.7 It. - 4 - t i 'I( c, .' -' ' i ..,' ''' - .'',. ''''''! 04:7, . ' two months before lie:crossed the Alps, lay tin a big. map of Italy, which haq been sikread on the floor of the TiiiI4eft-s iii,l'at is. As he sttidied the- tuap IIP stiii:k pins in it. here and there. some of them tipped iith red wax and the ii ith black. w hi. knelt on the niap beside himt says that when Napoleon bail finished he asked, this iitierattim -Where do you tirduk I shall beat N 1 -NT.,-,,- , -- a 1. 4 , 1, , 41k qt .11 a 4 1 rs , , likle3.06,01010,41041'64teigrar,tiriVarft'3,'''''ke4s";''''khogoopgaArmitIvoic-9- ..41alat ,u 4s, 1 , ,' sw--- ' , , - .7"1 itt - - '' 4 ' ,. -- I I 11 t (-- cv,..r.10' 100 Years-Llifte- r His Downfall ., , ,...,, P , . 77777 ""P.''' s loltcm , i r 40r ,, trOy - 30.32. ENrfirAbt; ,, , - teite r:1 , By JAMES.. , , ' 01.0 . OOPily".:. 1800 ibetweett 11100 Understanding Pl . 20, : POir011 and Czar rant 1 ailed thn with 30. 1800 Te,i; Sent. , to Louisiana I. 18041 Mosta ceded Oct. France. Hohenlintien. 11rs. t of 2. 1804) Bet it, , won by Moreau. ' -: of peace eSitia 1801 treaty lief). .11,Austria at Luneville. 80111 2... 1841 Rattle of ,1ephenhallew.Cairn. June 27. 1801. 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