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Stutgard) shall be giren up to the 

 French army at 7 o'clock to-mor- 

 row, as also quarters sufficient for 

 the acconjmodation of one brigade. 

 Answer: Yes. — VII. That the 

 French army shall be put in posses- 

 sion of the grand bridge over the 

 Danube, and also have a free commu- 

 nication between both banks. An- 

 swer: The bridge is burnt down, 

 but all possible means shall be taken 

 to re-build it. — VIII. The service 

 shall be regulated so as to prevent 

 any disturbance, and to maintain 

 the best understanding. Answer : 

 The French and Austrian discipline 

 afford the firmest guarantee in this 

 respect, — IX. All the cavalry, ar- 

 tillery, and waggon horses, belong- 

 ing to the emperor of Austria and 

 king of Hungary, shall be given up 

 to the French army. — X. The 1st, 

 2d, 3d, 4th, and 9th articles shall 

 not be carried into execution until 

 it please the commander in chief of 

 the Austrian troops ; provided ne- 

 vertheless, that the period of execu- 

 tion shall not be later than twelve 

 at noon of the 25th of Oct. 1805 : 

 and, if by that time an army should 

 make its appearance, in sufficient 

 force to raise the blockade, the gar- 

 rison shall, conformably to Art. V. 

 be at liberty to act as they may 

 think proper. — Done in duplicate 

 at Ulm, 17th Oct. 1805. 



(Signed) Marshal Berthier, 

 Mack. 



Proclamation of the Emperor Na- 

 poleon to the Soldiers of the Grand 

 Army. Dated Elchingen. From 

 the Imperial Head-quarters, Oct. 

 2lst, 1805. 



Soldiers of the grand army. — In 

 15 days wc have made a campaign. 



What we proposed is accomplished. 

 We have chased the troups of rhe 

 house of Austria from Bavaria, and 

 re-establised our ally in the sove- 

 reignty of his states. 1 hat army, 

 which, with equal ostcntaMon and 

 impudt-nce, came to place itself 

 nnon wir frontiers, is annihilated. 

 What signifies it to England ? Her 

 object is accomplished. We arc no 

 longer at Boulogne, and her subsidy 

 will be neither more nor less. Of 

 100,000 men which composed that 

 army, 60,000 are prisoners : they 

 will go to re- place our conscripts in 

 the labours of our fields ; 200 pieces 

 of cannon, all the park, 90 colours, 

 all the generals, are in our power. 

 Not 15,000 men of that army have 

 escaped. Soldiers, I had announced 

 to you a great battle : but thanks 

 to the bad combinations of the ene- 

 my, I liave been able to obtain the 

 same success without running any 

 risk; and, what is unexampled in 

 the history of nations, so great a 

 result has not weakened us above 

 1500 men hors de combat. — Soldiers, 

 this success is due to your boundless 

 confidence in your emperor, (o your 

 patience in enduring fatigues and 

 privations of every kind, and to 

 your rare intrepidity. — But we shall 

 not stop here: you arc imp;;tient 

 to commence a second campaign. 

 We shall make that Russian army, 

 which the gold of England has 

 transported from the extremities of 

 the universe, undergo the same fare. 

 — To this combat is more especially 

 attached the honour of the infantry ; 

 it is here that is to be decided, for 

 the second time, that question which 

 has already been decided in Swit- 

 zerland and in Holland — Whether 

 the French infantry be the first or 

 (he second, in Europe? There are 

 among them no generals against 

 U u 4 whom 



