Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine

ANGLTMANIA.

The French were the assailants,
tempted by the hope of capturing
General Ou*s division, which was in
advance. On the advance of Suwar-
row the enemy were driven bacJc
over the Tidone by a charj^e of Cos-
sacks. Their right, under Victor, was
next charged In flank by the Cos-
sacks, great part cut to pieces, and
the rest driven across the Trebbia.
The Russians pursued. *' In the
heat of the pursuit they plunged, like
the Carthaginians of old, into that ^
classic stream," but were repulsed
by the fire of the French batteries,
and the hostile armies bivouacked
for the night on the same ground
which had been occupied IfOO years
before* by the troops of Hannibal
and the Roman legions. |

The next day was the anniver-
sary of the battle of Kolin, ia which
the Austrians had obtained their j
principal victory over Frederick the I
Great. Suwarrow, in compliment to
his allies gave for the watchword,

* There is a slight chronologicBl error here, too slight to i>e mentioned, bat in the
work of a scholar. The Roman battle of the Trebbia was fought more ibeD 8000
years ago. The battle of CannsB was fought in tbe 536th year of Rome. (B. C.
217.) The action ou the Trebbia had occurred in tbe flr«t Italian campaign, two
years before*

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of tactics on paper. But it must
be a mental operation not merely of
a more active^ but of a totally dif-
ferent kind, which constructed the
recovery of the battle at Marengo,
or led the march to Ulm.