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and his mind appeared reciprocally 
calculated for the support of each 
other. Both were incessantly em- 
ployed, the one in planning, the 
other in personally forwarding every 
design that was conceived. Such 
were the indefatigable qualities with 
which nature had endowed him, that 
while his thoughts were unister- 
ruptedly on the stretch, he allowed 
himself no kind of repose ; and, dur- 
ing the last seven days and nights of 
this dreadful contest, he was never 
known to have laid himself down to 
Test. 
Notwithstanding this terrible de- 
feat, the Austrian general, though 
unable to keep the open field, still 
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occupied the strong line along the t 
Mincio, and a fortified camp before — 
Peschiera. Butthe French attacked 
them onthe sixth, forced theircamp 
and lines, and compelled them to 
withdraw to the other side of the 
Mincio, with a great loss of men 
and cannon. They pursued them 
to Verona, where the Austrians, 
through the connivance of the Ve- 
netians, 
stand: but they were driven from _ 
this city, and fied in disorder to- — 
wards the Tyrol. This action com- 
pleted their route, and the garrison 
of Mantua excepted, no Austrian 
troops remained in Italy on the 
southern side of the Adige. 
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