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centre, under the orders of the gene- 

 rals Sommoriva, Ott, Gotteshelm, 

 andBellegardejCxtended in a waving 

 line by the roots of the maritime 

 Alps to Oneglia, Albinga, and 

 Finale, and held several posts on 

 the very borders of France. The left 

 wing of the Austrian army, under 

 the command of general Kray, oc- 

 cupied the vallies of the Bormida, 

 Erno, the Orba, and the Scrivia. 

 Itwas in possession of Sasello,Ovada, 

 Novi, and Serravalle, and masked 

 Gavi. A small body of troops, 

 placed in the imperial fiefs, held 

 t!ie roads leading from Genoa to 

 Pavia and Placentia. Another was 

 posted in the upper valley of the 

 Taro, where it communicated with 

 another, under general Klenau, 

 whose principal force was concen- 

 trated on the Magra ; his advanced 

 posts reaching as far as Lestria and 

 A'^arese. Such was the semicircular 

 line occupied by the imperial troops 

 opposite to the enemy. Some others 

 were dispersed in Tuscany, tlie 

 march of Ancona, the territories Oi 

 Bologna and Ferrara, the ]\Iantuan, 

 and the Milanese. The reinforce- 

 ments, which had arrived during 

 the last three months of the cam- 

 paign, raised the number of Aus- 

 trians, spread over the face of 

 Italy, to at least sixty thousand: 

 and they had about ten thousand 

 Piedmontese auxiliaries. About 

 twenty tliousand Tuscans and Nea- 

 politans, too, embraced tlieir cause : 

 but they had no enemies to con- 

 tend with, or rather to punish, but 

 the disarmed soldiers of the Cisal- 

 pine, Roman, and Partheropian 

 republics. 



The positions which at the end 

 of the campaign remained in pos- 

 session of the French, on the side of 

 Italy, were as follows : the right 



wing of the army of Switzerland oc- 

 cupied the valley of the Rhone, and 

 had its advanced posts in the dif- 

 ferent small passages of the Valais 

 and the Great St. Bernard. The 

 left of the united armies of the Alps 

 and of Italy, possessed the Little St. 

 Bernard, Mount Cenis, and the 

 extremities of the other passages of 

 the Tarentaise and of the Mauri- 

 enne. It supported, with some de- 

 tachments of infantry, the Vau- 

 dois, who were armed in favour of 

 the republic, and opposed the im- 

 perial posts placed near to Chenalc 

 and to Argentiere, in the vallies of 

 the Vraitu, and of the Stura. — 

 There the left of the united army 

 of the Alps and Italy, under the 

 command of Massena, ended. The 

 centre guarded the tu'O roads from 

 Coni to Nice, and in spite of the 

 rigour of the scason,had posts on the 

 Col de Fenestre, and the Col de 

 Tenda. It lined the Riviera di 

 Ponentc as far as Savona, and kept 

 strong detachments in the middle of 

 the Ligurian Alps, and on all the 

 passages which lead to the valley of 

 theTanaro. Therightof the Frencli 

 army garrisoned Savona and Genoa, 

 as also the towns between them, 

 and had cantonments on the four 

 roads which lead to the vallies of 

 the Bormida, the Erno, the Orba, 

 and the Scrivia. On the first, their 

 piquets went beyond Cairo; on 

 the second, beyond Sassolo ; on the 

 third, beyond Campo-Freddo ; and, 

 on the fourth, beyond Voltaggio, 

 having also, on the latter, a garrison 

 in the fort of Gavi. They faced 

 the imperialists in the two roads 

 which go from Genoa to Voghera 

 and Bobbio across the imperial fiefs, 

 possessed a part of that chain of 

 mountains which separates the val- 

 ley of the Trebbia from the Riviera 



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