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Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d toreach Placentia. but Lannes. with twelve thousand, defeated him at Monte-bello, forcing him back to Allesandria. Napoleon hastened across the Po toStradella to intercept De Melas and prevent his breaking through the Frenchlines to Placentia. The night of June 13, 1800, the French army Avas scattered, watchingalong the Po and the Tessino for the Austrians, while their army, fortythousand strong, with ten thousand more not far distant, was ready at day-break of the 14th to cut its way through the armies of France, and reachPlacentia. The French force was but eighteen thousand, but Victor withhis division held his position firmly, and the great leader, Kellerman, was incommand of the cavalry. Backward and forward surged the battle with LEADING WARS OF THE CENTURY 401 varying fortune, and at noon victory seemed perched upon the banners ofAustria. De Melas was so certain that the battle was won that he gallopedback to Allesandria and sent dispatches to that effect to the governments of
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NAPOLEON, 1814. (MEISSONIEIi.) Europe. General de Zach was left in command to conduct the pursuit andto drive the French across the Scrivia. Napoleon, dismayed, hoping againsthope that Desaix, whom he had sent towards Novi the day before to lookout in that quarter for De Melas, might hear the thunders of the battle and 2(1 402 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY return, saw him in the distance, hurrying with his troops, who, though wornand tired, were eager for the fight, and Napoleon saw already the tide ofbattle turned. Desaix had found no trace of the Austrians, but he had heard the sound ofbattle at day dawn, and he knew that De Melas was there, and that there hewas needed, and not at Novi. He roused his division, and hastened backto Napoleon. A short conference with his chief, to whose questioning heanswered, The battle is lost, but it is only three oclock, there is yet timeto win another, and the battle of Marengo, glorious in its consequences toNapoleon, stupendous in its

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