Thanks for your perseverance! But, soldiers, you have done nothing--for there remains much to do.

Milan is not yet ours.

The ashes of the conquerors of Tarquin are still trampled by the assassins of Basseville." The consummate genius of this brief campaign could not be disputed; and the modest language of the young general's despatches to the Directory, lent additional grace to his fame.

At this time the name of Buonaparte was spotless: and the eyes of all Europe were fixed in admiration on his career.
[Footnote 8: Berthier used to keep, as a curiosity, a general order, by which three louis-d'or were granted as a great supply to each general of division, dated on the very day of the victory at Albegna.].