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You are ill, or else you do not love me! Do you think, then, that I
have a heart of stone? and do my sufferings concern you so little? You
must know me very ill! I cannot believe it! You to whom nature has
given intelligence, tenderness, and beauty, you who alone can rule my
heart, you who doubtless know only too well the unlimited power you
hold over me!
Write to me, think of me, and love me.--Yours ever, for life.
BONAPARTE.
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_March 16th.--Bonaparte defeats Archduke Charles on the
Tagliamento._
_March 25th.--Bonaparte writes the Directory from Goritz that "up
till now Prince Charles has manoeuvred worse than Beaulieu and
Wurmser."_
_March 29th.--Klagenfurt taken by Massena._
_April 1st.--Laybach by Bernadotte._
_April 17th.--Preliminaries of peace at Leoben signed by
Bonaparte._
_April 18th._--Hoche crosses the Rhine at Neuwied.
_April 21st_.--Moreau at Kehl.
_April 23rd._--Armistice of two Rhine armies follows preliminaries
of Leoben.
_May 16th.--Augereau enters Venice._
_June 28th._--French capture Corfu, and 600 guns.
_July 8th._--Death of Edmund Burke, aged sixty-eight.
_July 18th._--Talleyrand becomes French Minister of Foreign
Affairs.
_September 4th._--Day of 18th Fructidor at Paris. Coup d'Etat _of
Rewbell, Larevelliere-Lepeaux, and Barras, secretly aided by
Bonaparte, who has sent them Augereau to command Paris_.
_September 18th._--Death of Lazare Hoche, aged twenty-nine,
_probably poisoned by the Directory, which has recalled
Moreau, retired Bernadotte, and will soon launch Bonaparte on
the seas, so that he may find failure and Bantry Bay at Aboukir_
(Montgaillard).
_September 30th._--National bankruptcy admitted in France, _the
sixth time in two centuries_.
_October 17th.---Treaty of Campo-Formio; Bonaparte called
thereupon by Talleyrand "General Pacificator."_
_November 16th._--Death of Frederick William II., _King of
Prussia, aged fifty-three_; _succeeded by his son, Frederick
William III., aged twenty-seven_.
_December 1st.--Bonaparte Minister Plenipotentiary at Congress of
Rastadt, and_
_December 5th.--Arrives at Paris._
_December 10th.--Bonaparte presented to the Directory by
Talleyrand._
_December 27th.--Riots at Rome: Joseph Bonaparte (ambassador)
insulted; General Duphot (engaged to Joseph's sister-in-law,
Desiree) killed._
SERIES C
THE MARENGO CAMPAIGN, 1800
LETTERS OF THE FIRST CONSUL BONAPARTE TO HIS WIFE
_3rd Outlaw._ "By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar,
This fellow were a king for our wild faction!
_1st Outlaw._ "We'll have him; sirs, a word.
_Speed._ "Master, be one of them,
It is an honourable kind of thievery."
_The Two Gentlemen of Verona_,
Act iv., Scene I.
SERIES C
(For subjoined Notes to this Series see pages 223-225.)
LETTER PAGE
Christmas Day, 1799 223
No. 3. Ivrea, May 29th 224
_M.'s_ 224
_Cherries_ 224
No. 4. _Milan_ 224
THE CAMPAIGN OF MARENGO, 1800.
EVENTS OF 1798.
NAPOLEONIC HISTORY.--_May 20th._--_Napoleon sails from Toulon for
Egypt._
_June 11th.--Takes Malta; sails for Egypt (June 20th)._
_July 4th.--Captures Alexandria._
_July 21st.--Defeats Mamelukes at Battle of the Pyramids, and
enters Cairo the following day._
_August 1st.--French Fleet destroyed by Nelson at the Battle of
the Nile._
_October 7th.--Desaix defeats Mourad Bey at Sedyman (Upper
Egypt)._
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GENERAL HISTORY.--_January 4th._--Confiscation of all English
merchandise in France. Commencement of Continental system.
_January 5th._--Directory fail to float a loan of 80 millions
(francs), and
_January 28th._--Forthwith invade Switzerland, ostensibly to
defend the Vaudois, under a sixteenth-century treaty, really to
revolutionise the country, and seize upon the treasure of Berne.
_February 15th._--Republic proclaimed at Rome. French occupy the
Vatican, and
_February 20th._--Drive Pope Pius VI. into exile to the convent of
Sienna.
_March 5th._--Capture of Berne by General Brune.
_April 13th._--Bernadotte, ambassador, attacked at the French
Embassy in Vienna.
_May 19th._--Fitzgerald, a leader in the Irish rebellion,
arrested.
_August 22nd._--General Humbert and 1100 French troops land at
Killala, County Mayo.
_September 8th._--Humbert and 800 men taken by Lord Cornwallis at
Ballinamack.
_September 12th._--Turkey declares war with France, and forms
alliance with England and Russia.
_November 19th._--Wolfe-Tone commits suicide.
_December 5th._--Macdonald defeats Mack and 40,000 Neapolitans at
Civita Castellana.
_December 9th._--Joubert occupies Turin.
_December 15th._--French occupy Rome.
_December 29th._--Coalition of Russia, Austria, and England
against France.
EVENTS OF 1799.
NAPOLEONIC HISTORY.--_January 23rd._--_Desaix defeats Mourad Bey
at Samhoud (Upper Egypt). February 3rd.--Desaix defeats Mourad Bey
at the Isle of Philae (near Assouan)--furthest limit of the Roman
Empire. Napoleon crosses Syrian desert and takes El Arish
(February 20th) and Gaza (February 25th), captures Jaffa (March
7th) and Sour, formerly Tyre (April 3rd). Junot defeats Turks and
Arabs at Nazareth (April 8th), and Kleber defeats them at Mount
Tabor (April 16th). Napoleon invests Acre but retires (May 21st),
re-enters Cairo (June 14th), annihilates Turkish army at Aboukir
(July 25th); secretly sails for France (August 23rd), lands at
Frejus (October 9th), arrives at Paris (October 13th); dissolves
the Directory (November 9th) and Council of Five Hundred (November
10th), and is proclaimed First Consul (December 24th)._
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GENERAL HISTORY.--_January 10th._--Championnet occupies Capua.
_January 20th._--Pacification of La Vendee by General Hedouville.
_January 23rd._--Championnet occupies Naples.
_March 3rd._--Corfu taken from the French by a Russo-Turkish
force.
_March 7th._--Massena defeats the Austrians, and conquers the
country of the Grisons.
_March 25th._--Archduke Charles defeats Jourdan at Stockach.
_March 30th._--Kray defeats French (under Scherer) near Verona,
_April 5th._--And again at Magnano.
_April 14th._--Suwarrow takes command of Austrian army at Verona;
_April 22nd._--Defeats French at Cassano, with heavy loss.
_April 28th._--French plenipotentiaries, returning from Radstadt,
murdered by men in Austrian uniforms--Montgaillard thinks by
creatures of the Directory.
_May 4th._--Capture of Seringapatam by General Baird.
_May 12th._--Austro-Russian army checked at Bassignana.
_May 16th._--Sieyes becomes one of the Directory.
_May 20th._--Suwarrow takes Brescia,
_May 24th._--And Milan (citadel).
_June 5th._--Massena defeated at Zurich by Archduke Charles; and
Macdonald (_June 19th_) by Suwarrow at the Trebbia.
_June 18th._--Gohier, Roger-Ducos, and Moulin replace Treilhard,
Lareveillere-Lepeaux, and Merlin on the Directory.
_June 20th._--Turin surrenders to Austro-Russians.
_June 22nd._--Turkey, Por Previous Next |