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The History of Napoleon Buonaparte

CHAPTER VI
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During the seven days which the campaign occupied he never took off his boots, nor slept except by starts.

The exertions which so rapidly achieved this signal triumph were such as to demand some repose; yet Napoleon did not pause until he saw Mantua once more completely invested.

The reinforcement and revictualling of that garrison were all that Wurmser could show, in requital of his lost artillery, stores, and 40,000 men.
During this brief campaign the aversion with which the ecclesiastics of Italy regarded the French manifested itself in various quarters.

At Pavia, Ferrara, and elsewhere, insurrections had broken out, and the spirit was spreading rapidly at the moment when the report of Napoleon's new victory came to re-awaken terror and paralyse revolt.

The conqueror judged it best to accept for the present the resubmission, however forced, of a party too powerful to be put down by examples.


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