Excerpt from The History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon Massena was sent to the army of Italy, to the places and among the soldiers that were perfectly well known to him. It was also honourable to himself that he should be chosen to repair the faults committed in 1799, and be the continuator of the exploits of Bonaparte in 1796. Separated from the army in the midst of which he had conquered and obtained supporters, he was now transported to the midst of a new army, to which the Directory was ...
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Excerpt from The History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon Massena was sent to the army of Italy, to the places and among the soldiers that were perfectly well known to him. It was also honourable to himself that he should be chosen to repair the faults committed in 1799, and be the continuator of the exploits of Bonaparte in 1796. Separated from the army in the midst of which he had conquered and obtained supporters, he was now transported to the midst of a new army, to which the Directory was odious, and Where none were found who did not approve of the 18th Brumaire. This selection, like the preceding, was perfectly wise in a military point of view. The Apennines were to be disputed with the Austrians, and for a war of such a nature on this theatre of operations Massena had no where his equal. After having agreed upon these indispensable appointments, the consuls continued to apply them selves to a business not less urgent, that of the finances. Before obtaining money from capitalists, it was necessary to afford them satisfaction, by sup pressing the forced progressive loan, which, like the hostage law, had incurred universal reprobation. The forced loan, as well as the hostage law, was far from having produced all the evil attributed to it. But these two measures, scanty in utility, bore the mischief, under a moral sense, that they re called the most odious recollections of the rei of terror. Every body agreed in condemning tilem The revolutionists themselves, who in their pa triotic ardour had demanded them of the Directory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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