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ceneral baron 



under the orders of 



de Deux-Ponts, formerly in the 



service of FrancCj was composed of 



Six battalions of infantry, con- 

 sisting each of 400 men - - 2400 



Th ree squadrons of ligh t cavalry, 

 of 100 men each - - 300 



Two companies of arquebuziers, 

 of 40 men each . . 80 



Three companies of artillery, of 

 40 men each - - 120 



Total 2900 



This first division was to be raised 

 to three thousand fivehundred men, 

 by a levy of recruits. This corps 

 was reviewed on the fourth of 

 April, and, on the fifth, began their 

 march to the camp of Ridlingen, on 

 the Danube. 



The second division of the Ba- 

 varian troops passed a review at 

 Donawert, on the twenty-seventh 

 of April, and had the same desti- 

 nation. The corps of the one thou- 

 sand Wirtemburghers assembled 

 at Ridlingen, and, together with 

 three regiments of emigrant Swiss, 

 were joined to the Bavarians. The 

 particular destination of the corps 

 of Conde was not at that time 

 known. They had been in the 

 service of Russia, and had passed 

 into that of England. They re- 

 ceived orders to march to the coast 

 of the Mediterranean. General 

 Melas, who commanded the Aus- 

 trian army in Italy, set out from 

 Turin on the twenty-seventh of 

 March, and, on the evening of the 

 same day, arrived in Alexandria, 

 where he established his head quar- 

 ters, and immediately issued a pro- 

 clamation to the army, announcing 

 the opening of the campaign, and 

 exhorting the troops to remember 

 their former braverv, and to ac- 



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quire fresh renown, by new achieve- 

 ments. The greater part of the 

 Austrian troops that had passed the 

 dead of winter, in Alexandria, 

 were now sent to the frontier of the 

 state of Genoa. 



General Berthier, on the twen- 

 tieth of April, joined the army of 

 reserve at Dijon, of which he took 

 the chief command, until the arrival 

 of Buonaparte. This army was at 

 least fifty thousand strong, well ap- 

 pointed, and in all respects in most 

 excellent order. By this time, a 

 detachment of eight hundred Aus- 

 trians had taken possession of Mount 

 Cenis. General Berthier, informed 

 of this circumstance, on his arrival 

 at Dijon, reviewed the army, and 

 went directly to Basle, where he 

 had a conference with general Mo- 

 reau. It was determined that mi- 

 litary operations should be begun on 

 the Rhine, on the week thereafter. 

 Intelligence being received that the 

 Austrians had taken possession of 

 Mount Cenis, general Thureau set 

 out from Brian9on, proceeded to 

 Exiles, from thence towards Suza, 

 and coming up with the rear of the 

 detachment, which the Austrians 

 had pushed forward to Mount Ce- 

 nis, he obliged them to retreat, 

 and took a part of this small garri- 

 son prisoners of war. 



Massena, commander-in-chief of 

 the French, in Italy, considering 

 the miserable state of his troops, 

 came to a determination to concen- 

 trate the whole of his forces on the 

 river of Genoa. 



The general system of war, 

 adopted by the consul, was, to keep 

 the whole of the troops together in 

 a mass on some favourable points, 

 whether for offence or defence — 

 The reader already perceives his se- 

 cret design, in establishing what, for 



