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THE ALBION
British, Colonial, and Foreign Weekly Gazette.
New York, Saturday, February 22, 1823NAPOLEON AND WURMSER
After the passage of the Mincio, Napoleon, having concerted all his plans, pursued the enemy in every direction, entered a castle on the left bank of the river. He was troubled with the head ache, and he used a footpath. A large detachment of the enemy; in great confusion, arrived, having ascended the river as far as the castle. Napoleon was there, and only a few persons were with him; the sentinel on duty at the gate had just time to close it, exclaiming, "To arms!" and the General of the Army of Italy, in the arms of victory, was compelled to escape through the back gates of the garden with but one boot on.
In the same campaign, Napoleon incurred another imminent risk: Wurmser, who had been compelled to throw himself into Mantua, and who was debouching suddenly on an open plain, learned from an old woman, that only a few moments before his arrival, the French General, with but a few followers, had stopped at her door, and that he had fled at the sight of the Austrians. Wurmser immediately dispatched parties of cavalry in every direction, calculating with certainty on the precious capture. "But," said the Emperor, "I must do him this justice he gave particular orders that I should not be killed or harmed in any way." Fortunately, for the young General, his happy star and the swiftness of his horse combined to save him.
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