The same dangers, the same thirst of glory, the same eagerness to maintain themselves, at once renewed in all hearts generous sentiments; the soldiers became instantly intermingled; they embraced in the midst of the fire, and one half of the one corps passing into the ranks of the other, they renewed the combat, after the exchange, with double ardour."] [Footnote 37: Sept.

5, 1800.] [Footnote 38: The man took the noise for that of a salute.] [Footnote 39: "Napoleon dropped the _u_ in his surname _after_ his first campaign in Italy."-- _Bourienne_.] [Footnote 40: The poet Campbell has vividly painted the opening of the great battle which followed.
"On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser rolling rapidly: But Linden saw another sight When the drums beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery," &c.
].