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and, leaving a -corps there, moved in the nightto a part four or five leagues distant, which wasascertained to he favourable, where he crossedbefore day-light.

Annibal effected the passage of the Rhone bydetaching Anno in the night with a strongcorps, which crossed the river four leagues abovethe part which was first threatened.

Prince Eugene ’s passage of the Adige in 1701was admirably conducted.*

* The following details respecting this very celebratedoperation are given in a note by M. Vaillant, (p. 169,) fromthe Memoires of Mareschal Tesse, and San Vitali:—

“ Prince Eugene having established himself between theAdige and the canal Bianco, Catinat, unable to divine whetherit was the intention of the Prince to penetrate into the Man-touan or the Modenois, continued to occupy the line of theAdige from Rivoli, a little above Verona , to Carpi and Cas-tagnaro, and placed the rest of his troops on the right bank ofthe Po, from Revere to the little Fort Stellata, where therewas a bridge. The right of the French army was thus onthe Panaro; and the interval between the lines of the Adige and the Po, covered by the marsh of Tartaro.

“ Prince Eugene , who, by the position M. Catinat hadtaken, had it in his power to conceal from the French severalmovements by the right, threw a bridge across the canalBianco, on the 18th of June, at Castel Guylielmo, and imme-diately pushed across a corps of cavalry, which marched uponFerrara, and secured a passage across the Po at Palantone, alittle below the confluence of the Panaro with that river. Thearmies passed several days observing each other. On the 8th