"BONTEMS, Adjutant; BAUDIN, Adjutant; DUBOIS, Sub-Lieutenant; L. BONEFROY, Sub-Lieutenant; A. J. BONNART, Chief of Brigade; LE COMTE, Lieutenant; LEBRUN, Lieutenant; DEJEAN, Captain; BOUZAT, Lieutenant." Then he wrote to Bonaparte:-- "GENERAL,--I learn that the silly fool whose business it was to report to you upon the battle of the 27th states that I only looked on throughout that battle. I have no wish to make similar observations concerning him, although he soiled his trousers.--Respectfully yours, ALEX. DUMAS." The fact was that the letter sent to incorporate my father in Masséna's division was curt, and would have wounded a man of much less susceptible nature than his. It was dated the very day after the battle in which my father had had two horses killed under him. "HEADQUARTERS, ROVERBELLA, "_28 Nivôse, Year of the Republic, one and indivisible._ "General of Division and Head of the Staff. "The general-in-chief commands Divisional-General Dumas to leave Marmirolo, where he will be replaced by General Chabot, and to proceed to General Masséna's division: he will serve in the active army at Verona, under the orders of that general. ALEX. BERTHIER." This time there was no friendly termination, at length or abridged. [Footnote 1: This aide-de-camp was Duroc.] [Footnote 2: I have copied this letter exactly. I shall do the same with all letters I quote.] [Footnote 3: Four days previous to the battle of Rivoli.] [Footnote 4: The day of the battle of Rivoli, which took place at the same time; it will be seen how well concerted were the movements of the two generals.] [Footnote 5: Dallemagne was on the side opposite Montanara, on the road to Milan.] [Footnote 6: A letter we have just received from an old officer informs us that _roupes_ were cloaks similar to the grey cloaks of the dragoons.] 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. MY father was the more exasperated because he knew that with all the will in the world it was impossible for Bonaparte to have believed for one instant those words _looked on_, since it was by reason of the very orders he had received from him that my father had made that heroic defence of the 27th, when he drove the marshal's troop back into Mantua with a force three times less in numbers. I give below the orders Bonaparte dictated to Berthier at the very moment when, after having left him at the presbytery of St. Antoine, my father had repulsed Wurmser's nocturnal sally at the head of a mere handful of dragoons. "HEADQUARTERS OF THE GENERAL STAFF AT ROVERBELLA, "_26 Nivôse, 8 p.m._