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Identifier: napoleonshortbio00john (find matches)
Title: Napoleon, a short biography
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, R. M. (Robert Matteson), 1867-1920
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
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housand men menaced the Rhine.Moreau with an army nearly equal stood onthe defensive at Basle. As against these twoAustrian armies the French had a great ad-vantage of position owing to their holding theprojecting bastion of Switzerland; in strategiclanguage they had a double base from which tomanoeuvre, either to the north or to the south.The meaning of this will appear from the plansformed by Bonaparte. His first proposal wasthis: that all the available reserves should bemarched into Switzerland to strengthen Mo-reau; that that general should transfer hisarmy from Basle to Schaffhausen whence hecould march, so as to place himself on the Aus-trian lines of communications; that Bonaparteshould accompany the army to supervise theoperations. Moreau rejected this scheme; hepreferred a plain frontal advance to the moredaring and destructive one proposed, and heobjected to Bonapartes virtual assumption ofsupreme command. Precisely at this juncturecame the news that Melas had driven Massena
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BOOuay i CO. , N.Y. The Swiss base, 1800 19TH OF BRUMAIRE ^ MARENGO 8i into Genoa, and Bonaparte promptly deter-mined to alter his plans. Instead of basinghimself on Switzerland to attack Krays linesof communications, he would turn south anddeal a similar blow at Melas. His prepara-tions for this were eminently characteristic ofhis genius. His first move was to deceive theenemy as to his strength and intentions. Thenewspapers accordingly announced the forma-tion of a camp at Dijon, where a formidablearmy of reserve was to be assembled. TheFirst Consul, as he was now officially known,went down to inspect the troops and so, ofcourse, did the spies of all the Powers. Theyfound nothing more than a few weak battalionsmade up of boys and cripples and presentinga most ragged appearance. In a few weeksBonapartes army of reserve was the laughingstock of the courts of Europe; but not forlong. The camp at Dijon was only a blind.With Berthier at the Ministry of War the moststrenuous efforts were

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