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him to reinforce them. He placed one body behind the Adige at Segnano, where the strait road crossed to Manitus. He placed another higher up, at Verona, where he had his headquarters. A third was stationed still higher up on the same river, at Rivoli, where the mountain comes sheer down upon the stream, and the lake on the other side washes its foot. He stationed a fourth at Brescia, at the point of the lake, where the road branching out from the Rivoli road comes around the water. As soon Rivoli road comes around the water. As soon as the enemy approached any of these outposts be was apprised of it, and having first discovered which was the real point of attack and which the false, he concentrated his whole force and attacked the enemy, who was obliged, from the nature of the country, to divide his own. In this way he repelled four separate attacks made in five months, and utterly destroyed the armies that made them. In 1814, in Champaigne, he repeated this series of manœuvres, and by means of an interior line was enabled