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When Napoleon, at twenty-six years of age, took command of the Army of Italy, that army consisted of four effective divisions, under the command of Generals Massena, Augureau, Laharpe and Serrurier, each mustering about seven thousand men. The cavalry only numbered about three thousand more, and was in the most miserable plight imaginable.
The draught horses had perished for want, and nothing remained for the transport of artillery but about two hundred mules.
The supply of bread was scanty and uncertain, distributions of meat had long ceased, the soldiers were in rags and many of them shoeless, and the finances of the Republic were at so low an ebb that, with all the exertions of the Directory, only ten thousand dollars could be raised in specie to enable the young General to undertake the conquest of Italy!
It is mentioned as an instance of the poverty of the public treasury that an order, signed by Berthier, has been preserved, in which a gratuity of twenty dollars is orde