He has all his supplies, hospitals, artillery and reserves in Alessandria; and he will not leave the neighborhood.

I shall have to strike a great blow; that's the only condition on which I can get peace.

I shall cross the Alps"-- he pointed to the great Saint-Bernard--"I shall fall upon Melas when he least expects me, and rout him utterly." "Oh! trust you for that!" "Yes; but you understand, Roland, that in order to quit France with an easy mind, I can't leave it with an inflammation of the bowels--I can't leave war in the Vendee." "Ah! now I see what you are after.

No Vendee! And you are sending me to the Vendee to suppress it." "That young man told me some serious things about the Vendee.

They are brave soldiers, those Vendeans, led by a man of brains, Georges Cadoudal.