CHAPTER IV.
The Army of Italy--Tactics of Buonaparte--Battle of Monte Notte--Battle of Millesimo--Battle of Mondovi--Armistice of Cherasco--Close of the Campaign of Piedmont--Peace granted to Sardinia.
Buonaparte at the age of twenty-six assumed the command of the army of Italy; exulting in the knowledge that, if he should conquer, the honour would be all his own.

He had worked for others at Toulon, at the Col di Tende, at Saorgio: even in the affair of the Sections the first command had been nominally in the hands of Barras.

Henceforth he was to have no rivals within the camp.

"In three months," said he, "I shall be either at Milan or at Paris." He had already expressed the same feeling in a still nobler form.

"You are too young," said one of the Directors, hesitating about his appointment as general.