NAPOLÉON Ier (1769-1821) Empereur.

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NAPOLÉON Ier (1769-1821) Empereur.
autograph manuscript; 1 1/2 pages in-fol. on one sheet of English paper (watermarked W 1815); following, notes and calculations in pencil are erased (cracks in folds restored, fading) Tableau de l'Europe en armes à la veille des campagnes d'Italie et d'Allemagne (1799). This manuscript, which bears at the head the mention "paragraph II", forms in fact the first paragraph ("Situation of the belligerent armies") of the Précis of the military events arrived during the first six months of 1799 which is attached to the project of Napoleon's Memoirs and published in volume XXX of the Correspondence (1869, pp. 293-294), according to the manuscript given by general Bertrand to the library of Châteauroux. This draft, entirely in Napoleon's hand in brown ink, shows important variations from the printed version. "In March, France had 450,000 men under arms, including 80,000 in Egypt, Corfu, Malthe, Corsica, the colonies, the gendarmerie, the veterans, 180,000 in the depots, the strongholds in Holland, in the hospitals, 190,000 in line, making up the armies of the Danube, Helvetia, Italy and Naples, namely 40,000 in the army of the Danube, 40,000 in that of Helvetia, 70,000 in Italy, 40,000 in Naples. The first 2 armies had this number of men present under arms, the last 2 it was with the effective and included the garrisons of the strong places of the country. The army of Italy included Piedmont, Genoa, Cisalpine, Tuscany, that of Naples, Rome and Naples. The Helvetic Republic had a corps of 8,000 under arms, the Cisalpine Republic had 20,000 Poles or natural inhabitants of the country, the Piedmontese had 12,000, the Romans had 6,000, which made a total of 08,000 [sic 80,000] in Italy". Napoleon made the calculation in the form of an addition of the forces of Austria, in Swabia, on the left bank of the Danube and in the Tyrol, that is 113,000 men, under the orders of the Archduke. "It had in Italy 70,000 of which 16,000 were garrisoned in Venice, Palma Nova, Istria [...] under the orders of General Kray. Russia had put in campaign 2 army corps, one of 40,000 under Souwarow which arrived at the end of April in Italy and one of 25,000 under Korsakof which arrived in Switzerland in August. But in March the strength of the enemy armies in line was 170,000, that of the French 195,000 Francois and allies [...] The French government had decreed an army of observation of the Rhine whose headquarters was in Mayance but in March it was not available and existed only on paper ".
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