Excerpt from History of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 7: And of the Nineteenth Till the Overthrow of the French Empire, With Particular Reference to Mental Cultivation and ProgressHad the jealousy of the Sardinians, who, with good reason, uniformly distrusted the conduct of the Austrian cabinet, permitted Beaulieu to have garrisoned Tortona and Alessandria, Bonaparte would have hardly ventured to march as boldly upon Turin as he did, when Beaulieu had withdrawn his forces to a greater distance in order to keep up safe communications with Mantua, which lay at a considerable distance. After Colli's defeat at Mondovi, Bonaparte immediately turned to account the insignificant democratic move ments in Piedmont, excited and led by the enthusiast Ranza, in order to strike terror into Victor Amadeus, and when this project was not immediately successful, he appeared himself in the neighbourhood of Turin, although he had no heavy artillery fitted to assault such a fortress. What, however, his artillery could not effect, he was skilful enough to find out the means of accomplishing through the instru mentality of Cardinal Costa, Archbishop of Turin, and Prina, secre tary to the royal exchequer.Colli was empowered to conclude a. Truce, which is an example of all those agreements for truces, by means of which Bonaparte, at a later period, always gained much more than by the splendid victories by which they were preceded.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.