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 NAPOLEON

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TO THE ARMY IN ITALY

(1796)

, you have, in fifteen days, gained six victories, taken twenty-one stand of colors, fifty pieces of cannon, several fortified places, made fifteen hundred prisoners, and killed or woundedover ten thousand men. You are the equals of the conquerors of Holland and of the Rhine.

Destitute of everything, you have supplied yourselves with everything. You have won battles without cannon, crossed rivers without bridges, made forced marches without shoes, bivouacked without spirituous liquor, and often

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