As soon as the Austrian

As soon as the Austrian Post Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:08:00 +0000
They fought for ecclesiasticalabsurdities; but their cause was also the cause of national right, and theadmiration which their courage excited in Europe was well deserved.Early in the year 1809 the Archduke John had met the leaders of theTyrolese peasantry, and planned the first movements of a nationalinsurrection. As soon as the Austrian army crossed the Inn, the peasantsthronged to their appointed meeting-places.

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1. - Thepeople believed exactly Post Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 9:50:45 +0000
Nowhere could the Church exhibit a more winning example of unbrokenaccord between a simple people and a Catholic Crown. Protestantism and theunholy activities of reason had never brought trouble into the land. Thepeople believed exactly what the priests told them, and delighted in theinnumerable holidays provided by the Church.

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2. - Montgelas, the reforming Bavarianminister, treated Post Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 10:01:47 +0000
They had so little cupiditythat no bribe could induce a Tyrolese peasant to inform the French of anymovement; they had so little intelligence that, when their own courage andstout-heartedness had won their first battle, they persuaded one anotherthat they had been led by a Saint on a white horse. Grievances of asubstantial character were not wanting under the new Bavarian rule; but itwas less the increased taxation and the enforcement of military servicethat exasperated the people than the attacks made by the Government uponthe property and rights of the Church. Montgelas, the reforming Bavarianminister, treated the Tyrolese bishops with as little ceremony as theSwabian knights.

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3. - It became a police-offence Post Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 10:15:29 +0000
The State laid claim to all advowsons; and upon therefusal of the bishops to give up their patronage, the bishops themselveswere banished and their revenues sequestrated. A passion for uniformity andcommon sense prompted the Government to revive the Emperor Joseph's edictsagainst pilgrimages and Church holidays. It became a police-offence to shutup a shop on a saint's day, or to wear a gay dress at a festival.

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4. - These were the wrongs that fired Post Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 10:35:02 +0000
Bavariansoldiers closed the churches at the end of a prescribed number of masses.At a sale of Church property, ordered by the Government, some of the sacredvessels were permitted to fall into the hands of the Jews.These were the wrongs that fired the simple Tyrolese.

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5. - The Tyrolese were not more Post Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 10:52:48 +0000
They could have bornethe visits of the tax-gatherer and the lists of conscription; they couldnot bear that their priests should be overruled, or that their observancesshould be limited to those sufficient for ordinary Catholics. Yet, with allits aspect of unreason, the question in the Tyrol was also part of thatlarger question whether Napoleon's pleasure should be the rule of Europeanlife, or nations should have some voice in the disposal of their ownaffairs. The Tyrolese were not more superstitious, and they were certaintymuch less cruel, than the Spaniards.

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6. - As soon as the Austrian Post Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:08:00 +0000
They fought for ecclesiasticalabsurdities; but their cause was also the cause of national right, and theadmiration which their courage excited in Europe was well deserved.Early in the year 1809 the Archduke John had met the leaders of theTyrolese peasantry, and planned the first movements of a nationalinsurrection. As soon as the Austrian army crossed the Inn, the peasantsthronged to their appointed meeting-places.

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7. - On the next morning aFrench Post Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:19:39 +0000
Scattered detachments of theBavarians were surrounded, and on the 12th of April the main body of theTyrolese, numbering about 15,000 men, advanced upon Innsbruck. The town wasinvested; the Bavarian garrison, consisting of 3,000 regular troops, founditself forced to surrender after a severe engagement. On the next morning aFrench column, on the march from Italy to the Danube, approached Innsbruck,totally unaware of the events of the preceding day.

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8. - Retreat was impossible; ammunition was Post Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:38:13 +0000
The Tyrolese closedbehind it as it advanced. It was not until the column was close to the townthat its commander, General Brisson, discovered that Innsbruck had falleninto an enemy's hands. Retreat was impossible; ammunition was wanting for abattle; and Brisson had no choice but to surrender to the peasants, who hadalready proved more than a match for the Bavarian regular troops.

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9. - The French only maintained themselves Post Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:49:34 +0000
TheTyrolese had done their work without the help of a single Austrianregiment. In five days the weak fabric of Bavarian rule had been thrown tothe ground. The French only maintained themselves in the lower valley ofthe Adige: and before the end of April their last positions at Trent andRoveredo were evacuated, and no foreign soldier remained on Tyrolese soil.

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10. - Napoleon himself had remained Post Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:08:57 +0000
The operations of the Austrian commanders upon the Inn formed a melancholycontrast to the activity of the mountaineers. In spite of the delay ofthree weeks in opening the campaign, Davoust had still not effected hisjunction with the French troops in Southern Bavaria, and a rapid movementof the Austrians might even now have overwhelmed his isolated divisions atRatisbon. Napoleon himself had remained in Paris till the last moment,instructing Berthier, the chief of the staff, to concentrate the vanguardat Ratisbon, if by the 15th of April the enemy had not crossed the Inn, butto draw back to the line of the Lech if the enemy crossed the Inn beforethat day.

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