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According to the account which the 
¥rench have given, of the five memorable 
days in which thefe fuccefsful movements 
took piace, the lofs of the Auftrians in 
all of them, was fifteen thoufand men made 
prifoners, fix tboufjand killed or wounded, 
_feventy pieces of cannon, and one hundred 
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and twenty caravans, for the conveyance 
ef ammunition and provifions for the 
troops. General Bueonaparte himfelf, in 
his detailed account, ftates, that after 
the Auftrians had taken Salo and Lona- 
do, he (on 13 Thermidor) ordered gene- 
ral Soret to deliver general Guieux at Salo; 
and he alfo ordered general D’ailemagne 
to attack, and retake Lonado at any 
price. Soret fucceeded completely in 
extricating Guieux at Salo, after having 
beaten the Auftrians, taken two ftand- 
ards, two pieces of cannon, and about 
200 prifoners. General Guieax, and 
the troops under his command, had re- 
mained forty-eight hours without bread, 
continually fighting againft their ene- 
mies. 
General D’allemagne had not time to 
attack the Auftrians: he was attacked 
himfelf. An aétion commenced of the 
moft obflinate nature, and which was for 
a long time undecided, but he at length 
completely defeated his opponents. ‘The 
Auftrians left 600 dead upon the field, 
and the French took 600 prifoners. The 
next day general Angereau entered Bref- 
cla, and found all the magazines which 
the French had left, the Aufrians not 
having had time to effect their removal. 
On the 15th, the divifion of Angereau 
returned to Monte Chiaro. Maffena 
took poft at Lonado and Pont St. Marco. 
General Valette remained at Caftiglione, 
with 1800 men. He was to defend that 
important poft, and by that means to 
keep the divifionof general Wurmfer at 
a diftance from the French commander - 
‘in chief." But on the rsth (Thermid.) 
in the evening, general Valette aban- 
doned the place, with half his troops 
only, and came to Monte Chiaro to bring 
the alarm, intimating that the reft of 
his divifion was taken by the Auftrians. 
Thefe brave troops, however, though 
abandoned by their general, made good 
their retreat to Pont St. Marco inftantly, 
and before his divifion ; for this conduét, 
Valette was fulpended from his funions, 
and was alfo accufed of want of courage 
at the attack of Corona. 
At break of day on the 16th, both 
armies met : the Auftrians began the at- 
tack at Lonado. It was foon furrounded ; 
general Pigeon was made prifoner, and 
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the French loft alfo three pieces of. artil- 
lery. Bueonaparte inftantly formed his 
forces into a cioie column, and while they 
advanced to pierce through the Auftrians, 
the latter opened their fiies for the pur- 
pefe of furrounding them. ‘This man- 
ceuvre afforded the French general an 
affurance of victory, which he foon ob- 
tained. Maffena contented himfelf with 
fending fome rifiemen to retard the Au- 
ftrian wings on their march. The co- 
lumn arrivedat Lonado, and forced the 
pofition. Janot, the aid-de-camp of the 
French general, was ordered to obferve 
the motions of the Auftrians. In exe- 
cuting the command, he fell in with 
fome forces under colonel Bender, whom 
he attacked and wounded, and was about 
to take the colonel prifoner, when he 
himfelf was furrounded. He killed fix 
men with his own hands, but was at 
length overpowered, thrown into a ditch, 
and received fix fabre wounds. The 
Auftrians effected their retreat towards 
Salo; but finding that place in the pof- 
feffion of the French, this divifion wan- 
dered through the mountains, and was, 
for the greater part, taken prifoners. 
During this time, general Angerean at- 
tacked Caftiglione, took that place, and 
in the courfe of the day he ftood feveral 
obitinate actions with the Auftrians, who 
were double his number; every branch 
of the French troops did their duty, and 
the Auftrians on this memorable da 
Were completely beaten on all fides. 
They loft twenty pieces of cannon, 
from 2 to 3000 men killed or wounded, 
and 4000 prifoners, among whom were 
three generals. 
Cn the 17th (Thermid.) Bueonaparte 
ordered general D’E{pinay to penetrate 
into the Tyrolefe, by the road of Chiere. 
He had previoufly to defeat 5 or 6000 
of the Auftrians, who were at Gavardo. 
Adjutant general Herbin had great fuccefs, 
he overthrew two of the enemy’s batta- 
lions, whom he found in his way, and 
reached as far as St. Ozeto. General 
D’allemagne marched to Gavardo, de- 
feated the Auitrians, and made many 
prifoners: but not being properly fup- 
ported by the whole of his divifion, he 
was furrounded, and could only effect his 
retreat by cutting his way through the 
Aoftrians. 
‘The Auftrians were defeated at Ga- 
vardo, with confiderable lofs. General 
Wurmfer fpent the whole of the 17th 
in colleéting the remains of his army, 
in bringing up his referve. and drawing 
what reinforcements he could from Man- 
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