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The army being now in a condition to act offenſively the campaign was hardly open when the firſt eſſays of that ill-organized army were marked by very important ſucceſſes.'
From this time I cannot follow the hero, a pen bolder than mine is deſtined to record facts which poſterity will hardly be able to credit.
Bonaparte is all activity, and every-where the ſame, whether you behold him fighting negociating or puniſhing; it is always an affair of a moment, of a word.- Never any heſitation, he cuts the gordian knot which he cannot untie.
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FALKIRK:T JOHNSTON,
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