Emperor not to rely on difficulties arising in France, and doubted, if
that he would obtain a more advantageous peace than was now at his
as the draft of a proposed despatch to the Directory. The Emperor
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was aware that the Cabinet of Vienna was playing with him, and that the
they hoped would be favourable to the Bourbons. He therefore asked for
be raised to 60,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry ready for the field.
General Desaix, profiting by the preliminaries of Leoben, came in the end
conversations with Bonaparte respecting the army of the Rhine were far
assurance of support from that army in the event of hostilities
intimacy began. Bonaparte conceived for Desaix the greatest esteem and
seceded from the army of the Rhine, to which he belonged, to join
Egyptian expedition starting from Civita Vecchia. He took with him
of whom, on his death, were given the same post with Bonaparte.]--
When Desaix was named temporary commander of the force called the army of
Directory that they could not have chosen a more distinguished officer
alone could break their union, which, I doubt not, would eventually have
Bonaparte.
All the world knows the part which the General-in-Chief of the army of
his addresses to the army, and his celebrated order of the day.
shall now proceed to state what I knew at the time respecting that
CHAPTER VIII.
1797.
The royalists of the interior--Bonaparte's intention of marching on
Clichy Club--His choice between the two parties of the Directory--
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