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Gorizia, on the Tfonzo, waiting the junction of a divifion 
from the grand army, when news arrived of the defeat of 
the Auftrian troops in the Veralberg', on the fide of the 
Tyrol, commanded by the generals Jellachich and Wolfs- 
kehl, but who had been beatenby marefchal Augereau, and 
compelled to fign the following articles of capitulation on 
the 14th:—1. The corps under lieutenant-general Von 
Jellachich are prifoners of war, on parole of honour. They 
fliall defile with all the honours of war, lay down their 
arms, and proceed under a French efcort to the Bohemian 
frontiers.—2. The officers fliall keep their arms, their 
liorfes and effefts.—3. All the military horfes, arms, ar¬ 
tillery, and military magazines, together with every thing 
that is not private property, fhall be given up to the 
French army.—4. The French army fhall take pofleffion 
of the whole Veralberg, Pludenz, and the territory as far 
as Urlemberg.—5. The three battalions of the regiment 
of Beaulieu are included in this capitulation, if, on the 
23d Brumaire (November 14), at feven o'clock in the 
morning, they have joined the corps of prince Rohan, or 
if they fliall flill be in the Arleniberg.—6. All the officers 
and troops of the corps of lieutenant-general Von Jella¬ 
chich, give their word and honour not to ferve for a year, 
from the day of the capitulation, either againff France or 
Italy.—7 to 10. Proper care fhall be taken of the Auf¬ 
trian prifoners left behind. The prifoners of war fliall 
be efcorted, in three columns, towards Bohemia. On the 
15th, the French fhall take pofieffion of the arfenal and 
magazines of Feldkircli.—11. On the following day, the 
16th of November, at eight o’clock, the corps fliall de¬ 
file before the French army, lay down their arms, and 
furrender their liorfes. 
The commander in chief now received a difpatch from 
the French minifterat Berne, informing him that a corps 
of the Auftrian army, which had been cut off in confe- 
quence of the manoeuvres of the grand army, intended to 
defcend into Italy by the Tyrolean mountains. He cal¬ 
culated that this column would endeavour either to crofs 
the French line, and unite itfelf with the troops of the 
Venetian territory, or to operate, by the way of Feltro 
and Belluno, a junction with the wreck of prince Charles’s 
army at Leybach. But whatever direction the enemy 
might take, the fituation of the French army on the Ifonzo 
was fuch, that a fufficient force could be detached every 
ivay to intercept them. The advanced guard, in the mean 
while, continued its march towards Leybach. A column, 
confiding of 7000 infantry and 1200 cavalry, commanded 
by the prince de Rohan, advanced on the 24th to Baflano, 
and might eafily have taken the detachment of 1500 men 
polled in that garrifon. It however proceeded to Caftel 
Franco. As foon as general St. Cyr was informed of this 
movement, he was convinced that the enemy meant to 
crofs the French line, of the force of which they were un¬ 
fortunately ignorant. He therefore made difpofitions for 
giving them a warm reception. Marefchal Mafiena, who 
had furefeen the event, remained on his part perfeftly 
tranquil ; but that nothing might be left to the efteft of 
chance, he took meafures for bringing up, by forced 
marches on the Piave, the divifion of grenadiers com¬ 
manded by general Partouneaux, and other corps.- The 
grenadiers were directed to afcend the Piave by II Rofco 
dell Mantello, and to turn the pofition of Baflano. The 
divifion of Gardanne, which wasdirefted at the fame time 
to Venzone, was deftined to reinforce the detachments 
lent to the two Pontebas, and to cut off all retreat from 
the enemy. The general in chief left the reft of the troops 
on the Ifonzo, under the command of general Duhefme, 
and proceeded himfelf to the Piave to fuperiniend the 
movements he had directed. 
General St. Cyr manoeuvred to reconnoitre the enemy, 
and to flop him. General Regnier, at Navale, had orders 
to march on the 23d, at day-break, to Caftel Franco. The 
enemy arrived in the evening, and fenfible of ti e difficulty 
of his pofition, anticipated the attack. He fell violently 
on Regnier’s divifion, which received him with the greateft 
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coolnefs, and repulfed him. The enemy, however, re. 
turned feveral times to the charge, but was always re¬ 
ceived with the fame firmnefs. Meanwhile general St. 
Cyr made a movement with the Polifti regiment, and 
turned the enemy. The route was then completed all the 
way to Caftel Franco, where the French troops arrived 
as foon as the Andrians. All who were not killed or taken 
in the field of battle, were obliged to capitulate. Six 
thoufand infantry and one. hundred cavalry were made 
prifoners. This number was greater than that which was 
oppofed to them in effective combat ; but they faw, from 
the difpofitions which were made, that their deftruftion 
was inevitable. The prince de Rohan, feveral colonels, 
and a number of officers, were among the ptifoners. Six 
ftandards, twelve pieces of cannon, and immenfe bag¬ 
gage, was alfothe refultof this victory. The French had 
only to regret the lofs of about one hundred killed and 
wounded. 
This was the laft engagement that took place in Italy. 
General St. Cyr, witli his divifion, w»as now deftined to 
march towards Naples, where, notwithftanding.a previous 
treaty of neutrality, it was reported that an Anglo-Rtif- 
fian fquadrou had landed 15,000 men, which were to be 
augmented by levies from the' Neapolitan (fates ; the 
whole to be under the command of general Lafcy. Ma¬ 
refchal Mafiena in the mean time drew towards Leybach 
in Carniola, from whence the archduke Charles had re¬ 
treated ; who entered Styria, and marched into Gratz, the 
capital, which had been evacuated only twenty-one days 
before by general Marmont, who had been manoeuvring 
to intercept him on his retreat to Vienna. A Spanifh divi¬ 
fion of troops had been ftipulated to march into Italy 
through Etruria, to cooperate with Mafiena; but it 
never arrived. In truth it was not wanted. 
Marefchal Ney had been ordered to feize upon the 
Tyrol ; and he acquitted himfelf with his ufual addrefs 
and intrepidity. He defeated the archduke John at 
the foot of Mount Brenner, and turned the fortrefies 
of Scarnitz and Nouftark, which he carried by force of 
arms. On this occafion he took 1800 prifoners, a ftand- 
ard, and 16 pieces of cannon (field-pieces). On the 16th 
of November, at five in the afternoon, he made his entry 
into Infpruck, where he found an arfenal, with a refpeft- 
able artillery 16,000 mufkets, and an immenfe quantity 
of powder. The fame day he entered Hall, where he alfo 
found very-confider.ible magazines. The archduke John, 
who had commanded in the Tyrol, efcaped by way of 
Luchetah. He had ordered one of bis colonels to deliver 
up all the magazines to the French, and recommended to 
their generolity 1200 fick and wounded at Infpruck. 
Thus, by means of the mod aftive courage, added to a 
drift attention to taftical difcipline, and by a prompt co¬ 
operation of well-direfted movements, condufted with a 
perfeverance and rapidity of action perhaps unprecedented 
in the hiftory of modern nations, every feparate divifion 
of the French army, and almoft every fubordinate detach¬ 
ment, had fucceeded in carrying every arduous point into 
effeft, and in accomplifhing all thofe important meafures, 
w hich the emperor Napoleon had originally in view. But 
it mu ft not be diflTembled that a conliderable portion of 
this great fuccefs was to be attributed to an unpardonable 
violation on the part of the French emperor, of the then 
exifting treaties of neutrality among the German (lares, by 
forcibly marching his armies through their territories, 
drawing (applies from their fubjefts, and thus reaching 
their point of deftination, even before their adverlaries 
could obtain the (mailed indication of their route. 
This bold movement enabled the emperor Napoleon to 
anticipate his march by fome days; to come upon the 
Auftrians in a manner fo fudden, as to baffie all ordinary 
precautions; and by thefe means to overwhelm and al¬ 
moft annihilate his opponents with the irrefiftible weight 
of fuperior numbers. If he bad refpefted the neutrality 
of his Pruftian majefty’s province ot Anlpach, he could 
not have fucceeded in turning the right wing ot the Auf- 
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