The Pictorial History of England During the Reign of George the Third: Being ... 3
The Pictorial History of England During the Reign of George the Third: Being ... 3
Charles Macfarlane, George Lillie Craik
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Thil obliged Suva- rofi' to turn aside towards the lakA of Constance and the frontiers of Germany. He wis interrupted on his march by Massena; but, fighting and re- tiring, halting and fighting again, he attained his object, and effected a junction witi Korsakoff, though with an army sadly diminishcp* Leaving the French once more absolute masteif of Switzer- land,* the two Russian generals mar.J^ed away to • The Archdttkd Charles, when nenhiog ngrni^. M««eBa. wit I •Chap. L] CIVIL AND MILITARY ...TRANSACTIONS :— 1799. 547 Augsburg, where they received orders to lead back all their troops to their own country. The Neapolitan kingdom was recovered in the course of the months of June and July by Car- dinal Ruffo, with an army of wild Calabrians, by a motley force of English, Russians, Portu- guese, and Turks, and by Lord Nelson and his squadron. A sanguinary vengeance was taken by the vindictive court on the Neapolitan re- publicans; and the fame of Nelson, who had surrendered his better feelings and judgment to the fascinating Lady Hamilton, the wife of the British minister at that court, the friend of the queen (Caroline of Austria, sister of the unfor- tunate Marie Antoinette), and the ready instru- ment ofher vengeance, was obscured by more than one dark deed, which no right-minded Englishman will ever attempt to palliate.
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