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sed him, were, in the campaign of 1796, Beaulieu, nearly eighty; Wurmser, eighty; and Alvinzi, over seventy. In 1800 Miles was General-in-Chief of the Austrian forces, who had served fifty years in the army. In 1805 the French were opposed by Kulersoff, then sixty, while still more aged Generals directed the plan of operations. In 1806 the French were opposed by the Duke of Brunswick, seventy-one; Hohenlope, sixty, and other old Generals who had served under the great Frederick; men, says Jomini, "exhumed from the Seven Years War," "whose faculties were frozen by age," "who had been buried for the last ten years in a lethargic sleep." In 1807 the French were opposed by Kamenski, then eighty; Berringser, sixty, and Buxhowden, also of advanced age.--The allies at last began to profit by their painful experience. In 1809 the Austrian army was led by the youthful Archduke Charles, and although thwarted by the projects of the old Generals of the Aulic council, wiped off much of its form