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Jackson's marches.
Bonaparte, in his first campaign in Italy, wrote to the Directory that his troops had outdone the Roman legions.
The latter, he said, marched eight leagues (twenty-four miles) a day, whereas the French marched ten, and fought a battle every day. The French are proverbially rapid marchers; but the great exploits alluded to by Napoleon in this letter extended only over a space of one week, during the time of Wurmser's first invasion, when the battle of Castiglione was fo m one horse to another.
At other periods the French enjoyed comparative repose, while engaged in blockading Mantna.
For rapid marching, continued steadily through a long period of time, it may be doubted whether any troops — even those of Bonaparte in Italy — ever surpassed the troops of Jackson.
For a whole mouth they are said to have made twenty-five miles a day; and when we look at the ground they passed over, we are induced to believe the distance not overstated.
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