This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...immobility of the King of Naples at Bologna, cooled the enthusiasm and relaxed the spring of his army. The French generals quitted it, to remain innocent of a parricidal war against their country; while the Neapolitan generals, although faithful, inured to the field, and formed in the school of our great wars, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...immobility of the King of Naples at Bologna, cooled the enthusiasm and relaxed the spring of his army. The French generals quitted it, to remain innocent of a parricidal war against their country; while the Neapolitan generals, although faithful, inured to the field, and formed in the school of our great wars, submitted unwillingly to a sovereign, a warrior it was true, but whom they had always seen playing the second part to a great man. They beset him with their dissensions and their counsels, and Murat yielding and resisting The Carbonari proclaim the deposition of Murat. by turns, the impulse relaxed cm every side. No one could perceive very clearly the motives, the object, and the results of this expedition; for the ambiguity of the policy imparted an incoherence to the acts. The generals called upon the King for an explanation; Lord Beutinck required him to deliver Leghorn into his hands, as a pledge of the independence of Tuscany. On the other hand, the Pope, delivered by Napoleon from captivity, in order to re-establish in Rome the seat of European Catholicism, was proceeding towards his capital, in the midst of the populace of Italy, intoxicated with joy, and prostrate before him. The pontiff was approaching Bologna before Murat could decide whether he should receive him as a priest who was going to reclaim his temple, or as a sovereign going to take possession of his states. Surprised by the Pope in the midst of his indecision, Murat was obliged to feign the common enthusiasm for Napoleon's captive, to escort him to Cesena, and to evince for him an outward respect which clashed with his secret ambition of keeping Kome for himself. XXX. At the same time, the Carbonari of Naples, a mysterious sect, since celebrated by the explosion of...
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