id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 61320 Sargent, Herbert H. (Herbert Howland) The Campaign of Marengo, With Comments .txt text/plain 57955 2815 70 in check if possible, while the Austrian army under Melas in Italy with Moreau's army, cross the Rhine in force between Schaffhausen this way Bonaparte could re-enforce Masséna with the Army of Reserve, twenty thousand Austrians in Germany might hold in check Moreau's army large Austrian army in Italy, and left him free to direct his remaining Tenda, Nice, and the line of the Var. Inasmuch as the active French army directly in front of Melas numbered of the Army of Italy across the Var. On the French side, the plan of campaign that offered the best results thousand men from his army, gave the command of it to General Moncey, fighting the French so vigorously at Genoa and along the Var. On the 6th of May Bonaparte left Paris to direct the operations of the Bonaparte crossed the river, attacked and defeated the Austrians, Melas, General, commanded Austrian army in Italy, 21; ./cache/61320.txt ./txt/61320.txt