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rent In the name of the commanJer-ln-cliief to general 
Sominariva, who commanded inTufeany, requefting that 
the armed peafants might be immediately dilbanded, and 
threatening an hodile incnrfion in cafe of refufal. As 
thefe demands were not attended to, lieutenant-general 
Dupont entered Florence with a numerous army, while 
general Clement advanced to Leghorn. The inlurgents 
were immediately dilperfed, and the Andrians, to tlie 
number of two thoufand five hundred, were permitted 
to retire to Ancona ; but the merchandife of the Englidi 
(though permitted by the armidice of Marengo to retain 
its neutrality) was, in open violation ot public faith, 
confilcated for the benefit of France. The invafion of 
TuCcany, however, feems to have had but little efieiSl 
on the imperial cabinet; for it did not occafion any 
movements’ on the part of their armies till the expira¬ 
tion o'f the truce of ilohenlindcn. Some light IkirmiOtes 
had, indeed, taken place between the advanced pods, 
but the campaign was not refumed till the 24th of 
December. 
It appears that the French were, at fird, inclined to 
fall upon the Audrians near the lake of Garda, and there 
to turn the lines of the Mincio ; but general Lebrnne, 
animated by the fuccelfes of Moreau, refolved to attack 
them in front. Accordingly a bridge was thrown over 
the Mincio, the padage ed'efted, and the left bank main¬ 
tained by a detachment of French forces againd the vi-, 
gorous and repeated ex'ertions of the imperialids. In 
the courfe of that day the French took iiptvards cf two 
thoufand piifoners, and feveral dandards; and next 
tnorning thepalfage of the river was carried by the main 
body at Alonzanbano. An order given by the lieute¬ 
nant-general Delmes for a general charge by the French 
infantry and cavalry, was executed without firing a An¬ 
gle cannon; and, after a mod obdinate conflict, the 
Audrians were routed with prodigious daughter. Mean¬ 
while two French brigades were attacked by a referve 
of twelve thoufand Hungarian grenadiers; but, having- 
received a timely reinforcement, they defeated the ai- 
failants, and made themfelves maders of four pieces of 
cannon, a cited of ammunition, and about two thoufand 
pirifoners. At Vallegio they encountered fredi difficul¬ 
ties, from the intre'pid firmnefs of the imperialids ; but, 
after the village had been thi ee times taken and retaken, 
and prodigies of valour performed on both fides, the 
Audrian commander thought proper to retreat; and the 
French took pod'edion of five pieces of cannon, two how¬ 
itzers, nine hundred mufkets, and eighty horfes, befides 
a prodigious number of prifoners. This defeat, and th.e 
arrival of frelh reinforcements to the enemy, induced 
the Audrians to evacuate the cadle of Vallegio, which 
they had hitherto retained. 
Next morning, lieutenant-general Delmas furrounded 
the redoubts of Salionga, and began to make prepara¬ 
tions for an aifault: but the Audrians, fully feniible of 
the impradticability of a fuccefsful defence, furrendered 
al dilcreiion ; and fourteen pieces of cannon, two pair 
of colours, and a thoufand prifoners, fell into tlie hands 
of the vidforious republicans. Elated by thefe fuccedes, 
the French proceeded to occupy on their left the lieights 
of Cadel-Nuovo, and on their right took pod between 
Legnano and Verona ; while fome detachments were or¬ 
dered to lay liege to Fefchiera, and blockade Mantua. 
Meanwhile the main body of the Audrians had pad’ed 
tlie Adige ; and they had ftrengthened witli fome troops 
and a numerous artillery an intrenched camp which they 
had formed near Verona, covering the great road be¬ 
tween tluit town and Mantua. From the reports of a 
reconnoitring party, it appeared that great numbers of 
Audrians were drawn up along the whole line of the 
Adige; the pontoons were, therefore, fent to Boulfo- 
lingo, and preparations were made for pafling the river 
■at that place on the enfuing morning. An attack was 
to be made in two points; the fird at the place where 
it was really intended that the advanced guard diould 
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pafs, and tire fecoad to operate .as a feint. The divj- 
lion, under Boudet, received orders to dorm the Auf- 
trian pod at Chiufa, and to advance to the heights of 
Romada; while another divifion of infantry and cavalry 
diould pafs the Adige, and the right v.'ing, commanded 
by general Dupont, diould tak. pod at Boufiblingo. 
I'hefe orders w'ere all executed on tlie morning of the 
id ol january, iSoi ; and in the courfe of that day the 
wlvole arm)-, exclufive of the divifions under Boudet 
and Rochambeau, gained t.he left bank of the Adige, 
and marclied forward with fuch rapidity, that the Auf- 
tri.ms, after throwing reinforcements into the two forts, 
deemed it advifable to evacuate the town "of Verona. 
Meanwhile Boudet made himl'elf mader of Cliiufa, Alla, 
and Roveredo, and formed a junfiion with Rochambeau, 
who had reduced Riva and Torboli, and concentrated 
his forces at Mori. 
Whild one dividon of the French army, under gene¬ 
ral Morenccy, v/as cliarged with the blockade of the 
torts oi Verona, the-advanced guard, with the referves 
ot infantry and cavalry, advapbed towards Vicenza in 
puruiit of the Audrians ; -who defended feveral podtions 
with extraordinary gallantry, and retreated in good or:, 
der behind Montebello. The French, now purfuing an 
eafy courfe of fuccefs, eroded the Brenta, made them- 
felves maders of Trent, and chafed the imperialids from 
Bad'ano and Cadel-Franeo to Salvaroza.- In this career 
the republicans are laid to have marched one hundred 
and thirty miles in eight days, and to have taken up¬ 
wards of three thoufand prifoners. Prodigious numbers 
of the Auftrians were llain in their retreat; and the 
roads near Salvaroza were drewed with the bodies of 
dead and dying men. 
On the 12th of January, the left wing of general Le_ 
brune’s army had its foremod columns at Azalo, and 
by its pod was connetted with the centre, under the 
command of general Souchet; the advanced guard was 
dationed at Salvaroza; and the corps of referve, with 
the dragoons and the cavalry, were drawn up in the 
neighbourhood of Cadel-Franco ; while the Audriau 
army lay encamped on the plain of Salvaroza; and, not- 
■withdanding their recent misforiiiues, were preparing 
for another engagement. 
In this podure of affairs an Auffrian colonel arrived 
at the French liead-quarters, and propofed conditions of 
an armidice, which was accordingly concluded on the 
i6th of January at Trevifo, within twenty miles of Ve¬ 
nice. The line of demarkation between the two armies 
was to be tlie Tagliamento, from its efflux in tiie moun¬ 
tains of Tyrol, to the place wliere it dil'embogues into 
the Adriatic. The fortredes of Pei'chiera, Porto-Leg- 
nago, Ancona, and Ferrara, were to be ceded to the 
F'rench, and the blockade of Mantua was to be conti¬ 
nued : but by a new armidice, concluded at Luneville 
on the 6th of February, his imperial inajedy conleuted 
to give up Mantua, as an indifputable proof of his 
fincerity. 
At this junbhire, the meafures of the Audrian minidry 
v:ere generally deteded and ridiculed ; the nerves of tlie 
army were undrung; the fentiments and widies of the 
officers were difcoi'dant ; and almoll the only point in 
which all ranks agreed, was a dedre that the war, which 
had occadoned fucii a prodigious wade of blood and 
treafure, diould be brought to a Ipeedy concludon. 
Such being the date of the peojde, and even of the mi¬ 
litary, his imperial majedy at lad refolved to give peace 
to the empire ; and a definitive treaty was accordingly 
concluded at Luneville, on the glh of February, 1801, 
between the French republic, and the emperor and the 
Germanic body. 
This treaty was, without doubt, extremely unpalata¬ 
ble to the hoLife of Audria; as its principal articles de¬ 
prived them of the rich inheritance of their Burgundian 
anceilors,-and almod excluded them from Italy. Com¬ 
pelled to rqlinquidi the fovereignty of the Belgic pro- 
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