. The life of Napoleon I, including new materials from the British official records . elieved in thearmy, but rather to his own commanding powers. Dur-ing his mission to Genoa in 1794, he had carefully studiedthe coast-line and the passes leading inland; and, accord-ing to the well-known savant, Volney, the young officer,shortly after his release from imprisonment, sketched outto him and to a Commissioner of the Convention the de-tails of the very plan of campaign which was to carry himvictoriously from the Genoese Riviera into the heart ofAustria.^ While describing this masterpiece of strateg
. The life of Napoleon I, including new materials from the British official records . elieved in thearmy, but rather to his own commanding powers. Dur-ing his mission to Genoa in 1794, he had carefully studiedthe coast-line and the passes leading inland; and, accord-ing to the well-known savant, Volney, the young officer,shortly after his release from imprisonment, sketched outto him and to a Commissioner of the Convention the de-tails of the very plan of campaign which was to carry himvictoriously from the Genoese Riviera into the heart ofAustria.^ While describing this masterpiece of strategy,says Volney, Buonaparte spoke as if inspired. We canfancy the wasted form dilating with a sense of power, thethin sallow cheeks aglow with enthusiasm, the hawk-likeeyes flashing at the sight of the helpless Imperial quarry,as he pointed out on the map of Piedmont and Lombardythe features which would favour a dashing invader andcarry him to the very gates of Vienna. The splendoursof the Imperial Court at the Tuileries seem tawdry and 1 Chaptal, Mes Souvenirs sur Napoleon, p. Napoleon, 1799.
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