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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 Excerpt:...they have just opened the campaign, and the first movements have been attended with signal success. The army of the Sambre and Meuse, more formidable still by the remembrance of some checks they have already revenged, rendered the 29th Germinal illustrious by a pitched battle and three actions, which immediately established their positions upon the right bank of the Rhine. Among the glorious trophies of this victory are seven thousand prisoners of war, twenty seven pieces of artillery, seven standards, sixty ammunition waggons, &c. "The passage of the Upper Rhine, by the army of the Rhine and Moselle, was accomplished on the 1st Floreal. It seems even to surpass the brilliant operation which.took place at the commencement of the last campaign. This brave "army, more proud perhaps of its retreat from Ba 1799. Early in 1799, the Republican forces in Italy 1 amounted to 90,000 Frenchmen, and upwards of 50,000 Poles, Swiss, Piedmontese, Genoese, Romans or Neapolitans, dispersed from the frontiers of Piedmont. They constituted two armies; the army of Italy, and the army of Naples. The former 90,000, under General Scherer, the successor of General Joubert,1 occupied the Modenese, the state of Genoa, Piedmont, the Milanese, the Valtelein, and the countries of Brescia, Bergamo, and Mantua. The general hatred of the French had rendered the above dispersion indispensably necessary, although it reduced the number, who could be employed in active operation, to 50,000. They were in cantonments on the banks of the lake of Garda, of the Mincio, and of the Po, from the Tyrolese frontier to the mouth of the last mentioned river. 1 This distinguished officer, together with General Championnct, who in the course of a month had obliged the Neapolitans, to evacuat...