. The life of Napoleon I, including new materials from the British official records . y Thiers; Alison says 40,000 ; Thi^baultopines that it was 75,000 ; Marmont gives the total as 26,217. The Aus-trian official figures are 28,022 before the fighting north of Monte my article in the Eng. Hist. Review for April, 1899. I havelargely followed the despatches of Colonel Graham, who was present atthis battle. As J. G. points out (op. cjf., p. 237), the French had1,500 horse and some forty cannon, which gave them a great advantageover foes who could make no effective use of these arms. 122
. The life of Napoleon I, including new materials from the British official records . y Thiers; Alison says 40,000 ; Thi^baultopines that it was 75,000 ; Marmont gives the total as 26,217. The Aus-trian official figures are 28,022 before the fighting north of Monte my article in the Eng. Hist. Review for April, 1899. I havelargely followed the despatches of Colonel Graham, who was present atthis battle. As J. G. points out (op. cjf., p. 237), the French had1,500 horse and some forty cannon, which gave them a great advantageover foes who could make no effective use of these arms. 122 THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON I during the darkness wrested from the Austrians the chapelon the San Marco ridge which stands on the ridge abovethe zigzag track. The reflection of the Austrian watch-fires in the wintry sky showed him their general an unskilled observer the wide sweep of the glareportended ruin for the French. To the eye of Bonapartethe sight brought hope. It proved that his foes werestill bent on their old plan of enveloping him : and from -%.ij£;S ;mSJ|;S%fr ^. NEIGHEOnKHOOD OF RiVOLI. ^amAnis (izo^rttph ^Ji information which he treacherously received from Al-vintzys staff he must have known that that commanderhad far fewer than the 45,000 men which he ascribed tohim in bulletins. Yet the full dawn of that January day saw the Imperi-alists flushed with success, as their six separate columnsdrove in the French outposts and moved towards these, one was on the eastern side of the Adige andmerely cannonaded across the valley : another columnwound painfully with most of the artillery and cavalry VI THE FIGHTS FOR MANTUA 123 along the western bank, making for the village of Incanaleand the foot of the zigzag leading up to Rivoli: threeothers defiled over Monte Baldo by difficult paths impas-sable to cannon : while the sixth and westernmost column,winding along the ridge near Lake Garda, likewise lackedthe power which field-guns and horsemen wo
Size: 1747px × 1431px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectnapoleo, bookyear1901
