Italy in the nineteenth century and the making of Austria-Hungary and Germany (1898) (14596021368)

Field Marshal Radetzky
Identifier: italyinnineteent00lati (find matches)
Title: Italy in the nineteenth century and the making of Austria-Hungary and Germany
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Latimer, Elizabeth Wormeley, 1822-1904 A.C. McClurg & Co
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Publisher: Chicago, A.C. McClurg and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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iedmontese army, under the Duke of Genoa (Prince Fer-dinando Alberto i\madeo), performed prodigies of valor,and did all that men could do to arrest the disorder andcover the retreat of the defeated army. But Radetzky hadbeen reinforced, and his numbers, as well as his discipline,were against the Italians. The day was lost, and a general retreat became unavoidable.Twelve guns were taken by the Austrians in their pursuit, butvery few prisoners. The old soldiers of Piedmont retired,firing at intervals, and in admirable order, the Genoese andLombard new recruits fled in utter confusion, and for the mostpart, disbanded, and were never heard of more. In the townof Novara, into which the defeated army poured during thenight, the most dreadful confusion prevailed. Plunder immedi-ately began. The cavalry charged the fugitive crowds throughthe streets, and they were soon streaming in wild confusionover the roads to the mountain towns of Duomo, Ossola andArona, the only refuge left open to them.
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FIELD MARSHAL RADETZKY. i CHARLES ALBERT AND NORTHERN ITALY. I I I All retreat to Turin was cut off. They had nowhere toretire to but the inhospitable barrier of the Alps, wlierelittle food was to be had, and where the defiles would havesoon made the roads impassable for a retreating army.Only an immediate armistice could save them. All through the day Charles Albert had borne himselflike a gallant soldier. About seven in the evening, whenthe battle was evidently irretrievably lost, he permittedGeneral Durando to lead him away. But even then helingered under the walls of Novara, where bullets werefalling fast, hoping that one would strike him, saying, General, this is my last day; — let me die ! About nine oclock, when prevailed upon to withdrawinto the town, he assembled such of his principal officersand counsellors as he could collect together, and declaredto them that he was unalterably resolved to abdicate infavor of his son Victor Emmanuel, the Duke of Savoy. I have sacrificed