Napoleon Bonaparte's First Campaign, With Comments
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He defeated their scattered forces in such rapid succession that he seemed to be every- where. In the midst of the Austrian armies he GENERAL COMMENTS. 1 99 would unexpectedly appear in force, crush the enemy with superior numbers, and in a few hours afterwards mass his divisions to strike him another blow at some unexpected point. To be surrounded by the enemy did not mean defeat to him. At Riyoli he was surrounded on the 'battle-field by one army, and in the theatre of operations by three arm...ies; nevertheless, he annihilated the enemy. In this part of the cam- paign, with only forty-four thousand soldiers, he killed, wounded, or captured forty-three thou- sand Austrians. His movements were so rapid, his blows so terrible and unexpected, that the Austrian commanders could neither fathom his designs, nor understand his combinations. To them he seemed to have no system of war, and no method in his undertakings. He seemed rather to be the incarnation of force, moving like light- ning, and hurling thunderbolts of war against hi§ enemies, till they were crushed, overwhelmed, annihilated.
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