My father is appointed General-in-Chief of the Army of the West--His report on the state of La Vendée--My father is sent to the Army of the Alps as General-in-Chief--State of the army--Capture of Mont Valaisan and of the Little Saint-Bernard--Capture of Mont Cenis--My father is recalled to render an account of his conduct--What he had done--He is acquitted CHAPTER VI The result of a sword-stroke across the head--St. Georges and the remounts--The quarrel he sought with my father--My father is transferred to the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse--He hands in his resignation and returns to Villers-Cotterets--A retrospect over what had happened at home and abroad during the four years that had just elapsed CHAPTER VII My father at Villers-Cotterets--He is called to Paris to carry out the 13th Vendémiaire--Bonaparte takes his place--He arrives the next day--_Buonaparte's_ attestation--My father is sent into the district of Bouillon--He goes to the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse and to the Army of the Rhine, and is appointed Commandant at Landau--He returns as Divisional General in the Army of the Alps, of which he had been Commander-in-Chief--English blood and honour--Bonaparte's plan--Bonaparte appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Italy--The campaign of 1796 CHAPTER VIII My father in the Army of Italy--He is received at Milan by Bonaparte and Joséphine--Bonaparte's troubles in Italy--Scurvy--The campaign is resumed--Discouragement--Battle of Arcole CHAPTER IX The despatch is sent to Bonaparte--Dermoncourt's reception--Berthier's open response--Military movements in consequence of the despatch--Correspondence between my father and Serrurier and Dallemagne--Battle of St.-Georges and La Favorite--Capture of Mantua--My father as a looker-on CHAPTER X My father's first breeze with Bonaparte--My father is sent to Masséna's army corps--He shares Joubert's command in the Tyrol--Joubert--The campaign in the Tyrol BOOK II CHAPTER I The bridge of Clausen--Dermoncourt's reports--Prisoners on parole--Lepage's pistols--Three generals-in-chief at the same table CHAPTER II Joubert's loyalty towards my father--"Send me Dumas"--The Horatius Codes of the Tyrol--My father is appointed Governor of the Trévisan--The agent of the Directory--My father fêted at his departure--The treaty of Campo-Formio--The return to Paris--The flag of the Army of Italy--The charnel-house of Morat--Charles the Bold--Bonaparte is elected a member of the Institute--First thoughts of the expedition to Egypt--Toulon--Bonaparte and Joséphine--What was going to happen in Egypt CHAPTER III