BONAPARTE IN ITALY. . 
he was never seen to swerve, Carnot submitted without a 
murmur; and, as soon as the new government had re- 
ceived the legal sanction, he served it with the same 
energy, zeal, and devotion that he had before displayed 
as a member of the Committee of Public Safety. 
La Vendée was on fire; Hoche receives orders from 
Carnot to pacify it, together with a new system of opera- 
tions. This republican general complies, triumphs over 
Charette, takes possession of Stofflet, and clears the Mor- 
bihan of the numerous bands of chouwans who ravaged it. 
In less than eight months, the civil war, that impious 
war, in which, however, great courage was displayed on 
both sides, ceased to desolate our territory. 
On the Rhine, our armies are placed under the com- 
mand of Jourdan and Moreau. A scientific and pro- 
found plan of the campaign connected the movements of 
those two generals, and soon carried their victorious 
troops into the heart of Germany. 
In La Vendée, in Germany, on the Rhine, Carnot, as 
we have shown, had infused confidence into officers 
already celebrated by memorable triumphs. The com- 
mand of the army of Italy he gave, on the contrary, to a 
general only twenty-five years of age, whose known 
claims were then restricted to some secondary services 
that he achieved during the siege of Toulon, and to the 
easy defeat of the Parisian Sectionaries, on the 13th 
Vendémiaire, year III., on the humble fields of battle of 
the Pont Royal and the Rue St.-Honoré, and the steps 
of St.-Roch. I here claim for Carnot the. honour of 
having personally pointed out and selected the young 
General Bonaparte for the command of our third army, 
because it legitimately belongs to him; because this 
choice was long unjustly considered as the result of a 
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