[Footnote: 48 Directorial despatch of May 7th, 1796. The date rebuts
the statement of M. Aulard, in M. Lavisse's recent volume, "La
Révolution Française," p. 435, that Bonaparte suggested to the
Directory the pillage of Lombardy.]
[Footnote 49: "Corresp.," June 6th, 1797.]
[Footnote 50: "Corresp.," June 1st, 1796.]
[Footnote 51: Gaffarel, "Bonaparte et les Républiques Italiennes," p. 22.]
[Footnote 52: "Corresp.," May 17th, 1796.]
[Footnote 53: Virgil, Aeneid, x. 200.]
[Footnote 54: Colonel Graham's despatches.]
[Footnote 55: "Corresp.," June 26th, 1796.]
[Footnote 56: Despatch of Francis to Würmser, July 14th, 1796.]
[Footnote 57: Jomini (vol. viii., p. 305) blames Weyrother, the chief of Würmser's staff, for the plan. Jomini gives the precise figures of the French on July 25th: Masséna had 15,000 men on the upper Adige; Augereau, 5,000 near Legnago; Sauret, 4,000 at Salo; Sérurier, 10,500 near Mantua; and with others at and near Peschiera the total fighting strength was 45,000. So "J.G.," p. 103.]