Note 146 — Chapter V
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"You appear desirous, citizen-general, to continue to conduct the whole series of the military operations of the present campaign in Italy. The Directory have maturely reflected on this proposition, and the confidence they have in your talents and Republican zeal, has decided this question in the affirmative."—Carnot to Buonaparte, 21st May; Correspondence Inédite, tom. i., p. 202.