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The Daily Dispatch: January 10, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ndertook the military administration of the Republic the crisis was truly appalling. The remnant of Dumourier's army was flying from a foe who would have laughed at Thomas's five miles a day; a rebellion in La Verdee menaced the capital of the province with forty thousand armed peasants; three Spanish armies were advancing from different points; town after town after town had fallen; Marseilles and Lyons had separated themselves from the Government, and an English fleet was in the harbor of Toulon. The Republic seemed ready to drop an unresisting prey into the hands of a hostile world. But behold what the genius and energy of one man, in the right place, can accomplish! In a brief space of time the whole scene was changed; the invading armies driven back at all points, and the anticipated victim of Europe became its terrible conqueror. In a year and a half of Carnot's military administration, twenty-seven victories, eight of them in pitched battles, were gained; one hundred and tw