The Reincarnation Of The Emperor

The second coalition continues.

Thustan is back in silence, he is open this time, there is only a grudge for the British nobility, and the silent Bordeaux has teamed up to destroy him and his family. Seizing Solenne from Thustan's embrace, and re-submitting unreasonable conditions.

Ten days later, he was beaten at Magnano and retreated prematurely to Bordeaux and then to Marseille. 

The French, under the Herald Tribune, stopped in Marseille, where they were joined by 18,000 Russians under Alex, the Allied Commander-in-Chief. On the French side, the Herald was much more capable of replacing Bend and Thustan was ordered to walk north. 

After four days of heavy fighting, the French were forced to retreat. Fortunately for the Herald the allies neglected to press their pursuit of his very weak army towards Alessandria and the mountains north of Genoa . 

For more than a month the Herald maintained itself in the Apennines while waiting for the approach of Thustan from the south. Eventually he advanced to threaten the rear of the allies as Thustan marched west from Parma. 

Alex still managed to gather enough troops to defeat Thustan in Trebbia. After retreating eastward through Parma and Modena, Thustan eventually crossed the Apennines to reach the Herald in Genoa.

In the north-left and central-wing theatres France has retired to the Rhine. Over the next six weeks Massena's right wing was pushed back through the Grisons by the Austrians under Bellegarde and Hotze. 

When the French right wing had completed its retreat, the Austrians redistributed their troops, Hotze marched to join the archduke east of Zurich while Bellegarde was sent south to Lombardy.

Massena repulsed Charles and Hotze in front of Zurich before . There the Austrians left him uninterrupted for more than two months while they waited for Alex's arrival with 30,000 Russians. 

The silence again broke out, as the French right wing under Lecourbe retook to Gotthard Pass retreated to build its front along the Aare River at the same time as Massena repelled the attack on Aare. 

The Allies initially intended to use the archduke and Korsakov forces against Massena's front and to resolve the difficulty by bringing Alex back. 

They now decided to send Charles and his 35,000 troops to an unimportant operation in the central Rhine. Shortly thereafter, the consequences of leaving Hotze and Korsakov to arrest Massena proved decisive. 

Meanwhile, in Italy, where Catherine Jose replaced the Herald as commander-in-chief, France had been looking for battle only to accept a heavy defeat.

Soon afterwards the allied command in Italy also changed hands with the departure of a 28,000-strong contingent southeast of Lake Zurich under Alex. 

The transfer of Charles' forces to Germany had reduced the allied force in Switzerland to 55,000 men, and France, which had removed 77,000 men, carried out the attack while Alex was still in St. Gotthards. 

In Zurich's second battle, Masseuse won a decisive victory over Korsakov and pushed Russia north across the Rhine. On the same day Nicolas-Jean de Dieu Soult directed Hotze at Linth River. In the south, Suvorov forced the St Highway. Gotthard and continued his steps, still plagued by Lecourbe, until he reached the southern end of Lake Lucerne, where he had to turn east. 

Pursued by an increasing number, the Russians reach an extraordinary retreat to Ilanz, where their arrival marks the virtual end of the campaign. Prince Siclandus called back his Russians.

Elsewhere in Europe, Anglo-Russian expeditions to the Netherland, when the two powers struck a deal in which the British, who would provide 30,000 people, pledged to pay and transport 18,000 Russian contingents. 

The company was expected to liberate the French Low Countries, but the only positive outcome was the handover of 13 Netherland ships, along with a number of other warships, three days after the first British landing in Den Helder. In Bergen, the Brune-French-Batavian army halted the allied advance, and an expected revolt of the Netherland against France did not occur. 

The final defeat of the coalition and its dissolution occurred in the campaigns of Prince Siclandus in Italy, where Austria was decisively defeated in Marengo, and Moreau in Germany, where he forced them out of the war with his landslide victory at Hohenlinden.

The consequences of the Second Coalition proved fatal to the Directory. Blamed for the resumption of hostilities in Europe, it was compromised by its defeat on the ground and by the measures needed to fix it. 

Conditions were now ripe for the military dictatorship of the Herald Tribune, which landed at Frejus. A month later he seized power through a coup by Prince Siclandus to make himself the first consul in the power struggle.

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Of course it is a pride for Siclandus when he returned to Bordeaux. He could cripple a military force led by the Herald Tribune at the request of the coalition in Italy.

Luisa again looked angrily at the prince, for having done such an improper thing for the Bordeaux Kingdom.

"You have the heart of the Prince, having framed Thustan to meet your requirements, into our territory. How's Solenne feeling?" Luisa reminded her husband when they met during dinner together.

Siclandus just laughed, "what about my two daughters. Thattan will not be able to enter our territory, and the marriage of Solenne and Daniel can still be done as soon as possible."

Luisa shook her head, not expecting her husband to make such an unexpected decision.

"It's not fair, I don't allow it. You know the prince, that during your departure to Italy. We never met, because your confidants blocked our meeting," Luisa said to her husband.

Siclandus just laughed, he actually made his wife more hurt and disappointed. How not, the planning of the sudden wedding, must still be carried out at the request of Dean Thomas Kind and his favorite son.

Of course it was very surprising news for Solenne and Gabriel, when one of the servants entered their room.

"This can't be Gabriel....! I'm not marrying Daniel, you know I love Thattan so much" she broke into Gabriel's arms.

Gabriel held the servant, in order to negotiate with him, "help my brother, call the number of the man on this paper, tell him that we are waiting for them at the crossroads between the palace and our estate."

The servant lowered his head in fear, for him this would threaten the safety of the family who had been serving in the Kingdom of Bordeaux.

"Please do something... I don't want to marry someone I don't love" Solenne's cries broke again in the royal servant's arms.

"Ba-ba-good Miss.." the waiter looked down respectfully, leaving the room towards the place Gabriel had ordered her to.

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