Excerpt from The Decline of the French Monarchy, Vol. 1: Part II The attack against Provence seemed more formidable. It was again the English that had caused it to be decided upon for the Austrians, once masters of Genoa, would have far rather gone to conquer Naples. The position was critical. The Neapolitans had reembarked for their country; the greater part of the Spaniards had repaired by the way of Dauphiny to Savoy, the last possession left to Don Philip the French army, melted away by battle, sick ness, and desertion ...
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Excerpt from The Decline of the French Monarchy, Vol. 1: Part II The attack against Provence seemed more formidable. It was again the English that had caused it to be decided upon for the Austrians, once masters of Genoa, would have far rather gone to conquer Naples. The position was critical. The Neapolitans had reembarked for their country; the greater part of the Spaniards had repaired by the way of Dauphiny to Savoy, the last possession left to Don Philip the French army, melted away by battle, sick ness, and desertion, numbered only twelve thousand men, besides a few Provencal militia; and the King of Sardinia was advancing with forty thousand austro-piedmontese, supported by the Eng lish eet. It was not in a condition to dispute the crossing of the Var; and the Marshal de belle-isle, who reappeared at last in this war opened by him, and whom the cabinet had given Maillebois for a successor, thought himself obliged to fall back to Puget, four leagues from Toulon (the end of November). Half of Provence was abandoned to the fury of the Croats and the Pandours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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