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to join near Lintz, his left wing, 

 which hadbeen separated from him, 

 and was under the command of 

 lieut.-gen. baron Hiller. But the 

 latter had been so closely pressed 

 by the united force of the French 

 armies, that after several spirited 

 engagements, and even after a bril- 

 liant affair, in which he had the 

 advantage, near Neumarkt, and 

 in which the troops achieved 

 all that was possible against the 

 disproportionate superiority of the 

 enemy, he indeed was able to reach 

 LintZjbut was incapable of crossing 

 the Danube, and obliged to content 

 himselfwith destroying thecommu- 

 nication with the left bank, and 

 taking up a position behind the 

 Traun near Ebersberg. This was 

 the occasion of an extremely mur- 

 derous engagement, during which 

 the enemy in storming the bridge 

 lostnearfourthousandmen; Ebers- 

 berg was set on fire, and lieut. gen. 

 Hiller continued his retreat, till he 

 got so much the start as to pass the 

 Danube near Stain without being 

 disturbed by the enemy, and to wait 

 the approach of the archduke, who 

 after having in vain attempted the 

 junction of the army near Lintz, had 

 marched from Budweis to Zwettel : 

 still hoping, by a quick passage of 

 the Danube, to arrest the enemy's 



Srogress towards the metropolis, 

 leanwhile a corps of Wurtember- 

 gers had advanced from Passau 

 along both the shores of the Danube, 

 had occupied Lintz and the bank 

 Opposite to it : had restored the 

 bridge, and signalized itself by des- 

 troying the defenceless villages and 

 castles which could not be protected 

 by the small advanced guard pro- 

 ceeding by the side of the main 

 army. The enemy, by marching 

 through the valloy of the Danube 



in the straightest line, had got so 

 much ahead, that all hopes of 

 coming up with him in front of 

 Vienna vanished : still, however, if 

 that city had been able to hold out 

 for five days, it might have been 

 relieved; andthe archduke resolved 

 on venturing the utmost to rescue 

 that good city, which, by the 

 excellent disposition of its citi- 

 zens, its faithful attachment to its 

 sovereign, and its noble devotion, 

 has raised to itself an eternal monu- 

 ment in the annals of Austria. All 

 his plans were now directed towards 

 gaining the bridges across the Da- 

 nubenearVienna.and endeavouring 

 to save the imperial residence by a 

 combat under its very walls. 



Vienna,formerlyanimportantfor- 

 tress, was in vain besieged by the 

 Turks, and would even now, from 

 the solidity of its ramparts, the 

 strong profiles of its works, and the 

 extensive system of its mines, be 

 capable of making a protracted re- 

 sistance, had not, for upwards of a 

 century back, the luxury of a large 

 metropolis, the wants of ease, the 

 conflux of all the magnates in the 

 empire, and the pomp of a splendid 

 court, totally effaced every consi- 

 deration of military defence. Pa- 

 laces adorn the rampart : the case- 

 mates and ditches were converted 

 into workshops of tradesmen, plan- 

 tations mark the counter-scarpes of 

 the fortress, and avenues of trees 

 traverse the glacis, uniting the most 

 beautiful suburbs in the world to 

 the corps de la place. 



Although under such circum- 

 stances no obstinate resistance of 

 the capital was to be expected, yet 

 from the unexampled loyalty of 

 the inhabitants it was confidently 

 hoped that Vienna might for a few 

 daysserve as atSte-de-pontto cover 



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