Excerpt from History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon, Vol. 9 And danger of M. Fouche - Napoleon's attitude with regard to the diplomacy of Europe - He is silent with the ambassador of Austria, and explains himself frankly with the ambassadors of the other Powers - His efforts to prevent war but his resolution to wage it terribly if he is forced to take up arms again - His intimacy with M. De Romanzof'f - Call on Russia for cooperation - Vast military preparations - Composition of the armies of Germany and Italy The Princes of the Confederation required to prepare their con tingents - First movement of tr00ps towards the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, and F riuli - Financial means adjusted to military means Effect of Napoleon's manifestations on Europe - Exasperation and uneasiness of the Court of Austria in consequence of the events in Spain - Driven to choose finally between disarming and war, it adopts the latter alternative - Union of Austria with England - Endeavours of the Austrian cabinet to effect peace between the English and the Turks, and to detach Russia from France - Alexander's growing coldness towards Napoleon - Its causes - Alexander very much depre cates a war between France and Austria - Failing in his efforts to prevent it, and not willing yet to abandon the alliance of France, he adopts an ambiguous line of conduct - Great preparations for terminating the war in Finland and recommencing that with Turkey - An army of observation sent into Galicia under pretext of co-operating with France - Austria resolves to begin the war in April - Declaration of M. De Metternich in Paris - War being now certain, Napoleon hastens his preparations - Anticipated departure of all the reinforcements - The army of Germany distributed into three principal bodies - Parts assigned to Marshals Davout, Lannes, and Massena - Piince Berthier sets out for Germany with contingent instructions, and Napoleon remains in Paris to complete his prepara tions - Passage of the Inn on the roth of April by the Austrians, and march of the Archduke Charles on the Isar - Passage of the Isar and taking of Landshut - Design of the Archduke Charles to surprise the French before their concentration, by crossing the Danube be tween Ratisbon and Donauwerth - His arrangements for the purpose of overwhelming Marshal Davout at Ratisbon - Sudden and fortunate arrival of Napoleon on the theatre of Operations - Bold plan of con centration - Difficult march of Marshal Davout - He encounters the Austrians between Tengen and Hausen - Battle of Tengen, April 19 - Junction of Marshal Davout's corps (l'amme'e with Napoleon With half that corps, and the Bavarians and vvurtembergers, Napo leon breiks the Archduke Charles' line, extending from Munich to Ratisbon - Battle of Abensberg, April 20 - Napoleon follows up that operation by marching on the Isar, and taking Landshut on the zist - Battle of Eckmuhl, the 22nd - The Archduke retreats into Bohemia - Taking of Ratisbon - Character of the Operations executed by Napoleon during these five days - Their great military and political results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.