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CHAP. XI. 



Siege of Genoa. — Arrival of Massena there. — Situation of the French 

 Troops, and of the Inhabitants of Genoa. — Changes in the Army, and 

 in the civil Administration of the Genoese Republic. — The English 

 Fleet blockades Genoa, while the Austrian Army, under General Melas, 

 besieges it by Land. — State of the Austrian Army ; and Military Skill 

 and Address of Mclas in opening the Campaign. — Composition and 

 Position of the Army of Genoa, or the right wing of the French Army 

 of Italy. — Successes of the Auslria?is. — Revolution of Vado. — Vicissi- 

 tudes and Progress of the Siege of Genoa. — Conference ope?iedfor the 

 Evacuation of Genoa. — A Treaty concluded. — Genoa evacuated. 



AFTER the brilliant campaign 

 of Massena, in Switzerland, 

 he was judged by the first consul 

 to be the fittest man for taking the 

 command of the discomfited army 

 of Championet. From Switzer- 

 land he came straight to Paris, to 

 receive instructions respecting the 

 difficult and painful task he had 

 undertaken. He then proceeded 

 through Lyons to Toulon a.id Mar- 

 seilles, in order to take measures 

 for re victualling the army, and the 

 city of Genoa. At Lyons, and in 

 the south of France, he found the 

 cavalry, with the heavy artillery, 

 which had been sent back about 

 the beginning of autumn, both be- 

 cause forage was scarce, and as 

 being of no great utility in the de- 

 fence of a place environed by moun- 

 tains. He was not a little surprized 

 at the wretched condition of those 

 remains of the campaign of 1799j 

 and still more when he came ac- 

 quainted, at Toulon, with the neg- 

 ligence, and the roguery of the 

 army contrMclors. There he made 



such regulations as might remedy 

 part of the evil. He made pur- 

 chases of grain and of shoes, which 

 he sent ofij by sea, to his army. But 

 when he was informed that general 

 Championet had died at Antibes, of 

 the same epidemic distemper that 

 raged in the army, he went imme- 

 diately to Genoa, where he ar- 

 rived on the ninth of February, and 

 where he issued proclamations for 

 re-establishing confidence among 

 the troops and the inhabitants of 

 the city and territory of Genoa, all 

 in a state of insurrection. He 

 made some examples of military 

 justice among the former, and set 

 himself to calm the latter, first by 

 modes of conciliation, but finally 

 by force, which he was obliged to 

 employ against the revolted Ligu- 

 rian peasants. The army, which 

 had been stated by the French mi- 

 nister at sixty thousand men, was 

 reduced to twenty-five thousand, 

 according to the account given of 

 it by Massena ; and of these, ac- 

 cording to the report of one of the 

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