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tory, received a wound, of which 

 he died. Night by this time ap- 

 proached, and found the Austrians 

 every where retreating before the 

 victorious republicans. 



The next morning presented a 

 field of b?ttle covered with the 

 wounded and the slain, and gave 

 both armies an armistice, and an 

 opportunity to bury the dead, to 

 attend the wounded, and to recover 

 the wearied and harassed soldier 

 from his late fatigue. 



It was computed by the French 

 that the campaign of Buoni'parte, 

 from the time of his descending, 

 from Mount St. Bernard, till the 

 close of the day of Marengo, cost 

 the Austrians above sixty thousand 

 men. In the morning of that day, 

 the French force amounted to about 

 fifty thousand men, of whom three 

 thousand were ' cavalry, and t\fo 

 companies of light artillery, with 

 thirty pieces of cannon : the Aus- 

 trian force to about sixty thousand, 

 of which lifteen thousand were 

 cavalry. In artillery, the Austrians 

 were still more superior to the 

 French. Buonaparte, in the battle 

 of Marengo, had his clothes pierced 

 with balls in different places. 

 General Melas had two horses 

 killed under him, and received a 

 contusion in his arm. 



The reader of military history 

 may recollect that it was, in like 

 manner, that the English, by 

 breaking their line, suffered victory 

 to elude their grasp at Fontenoy. 



On the morning after the battle, 

 the generals in chief of the French 

 and imperial armies entered into a 

 convention, by which an armistice 

 was established between the con- 

 tending armies until an answer 

 should be received from the court 

 of Vienna. The imperialists were 



to occupy all the country com- 

 prised between the Mincio and 

 Fossa-Maestra, and the Po ; that 

 is to say, Peschiera, Mantua, 

 Borgoforte, and thence the whole 

 left bank of the Po. And on the 

 right bank, the city and the citadel 

 of Ferrara. The imperialists were 

 also to occupy Tuscany and An- 

 cona. 



The French army was to occupy 

 the country comprised between the 

 Chicsa, the Oglio, and the Po. — 

 The country between the Chicsa 

 and the Mincio was not to be 

 occupied by either of the two 

 armies. The impeiial army to draw 

 subsistence from those parts of 

 that country which made part of' 

 the duchy of Mantua. The French 

 army to draw subsistence ft-om those 

 parts of that country which made 

 part of theprovince of Brescia. The 

 castles of Tortona, of Alexandria, 

 of Milan, of Turin, of Pizzighe- 

 tone, of Arona and Placentia, 

 were to be put into the hands of 

 the French army, between the six- 

 teenth and twentieth of June. The 

 place of Coni, the castles of Ceva, 

 Savona, and the city of Genoa to 

 be put into the hands of the French 

 army between the twenty-sixth and 

 twenty-fourth of June j and the fort 

 of Urbino on the twenty-sixth. The 

 artillery and the provisions of the 

 places evacuated to be divided. — 

 The garrisons to march out with 

 military honours, and repair with 

 arms and baggage, by the shortest 

 route, to Mantua. No individual 

 to be ill-treated on account of any 

 service rendered the Austrian army, 

 or for any political opinions. The 

 Austrian general, on his part, also 

 engaged to release all persons in 

 the strong places under his com- 

 mand, who might have been taken 

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