Easter véronaises
The Easter véronaises are an episode of the countryside of Italy, during which the Italians revolt against the French Army with Bonaparte.
In April 1797, while Napoleon Bonaparte went on Vienna by the processions of the Carinthie, the noble ones and the clergy vénitie NS raised troops to prevent it from returning in Italy; and while it negotiated with Leoben a treaty with Austria, the murder of the French ordered by the Senate, was preached in the churches.
The 27 germinal year V (April 17th 1797) takes place the massacre of the French with Vérone.
The general Balland, who ordered in this place, envisaging a revolt, contains himself with the small number of troops placed under his orders in the Fort Saint-Felix and the two other castles. Insurrectionists, ulcerated by the evils of a war and excited by the priests, and 30.000, left in Vérone, part in the surroundings; 3.000 Slavic camped there under various pretexts. Hatred against the French was growing. Balland, while being contained in the forts, had left with the guard doors only the number of men necessary. The agents of the administration and approximately 600 patients were without defenders.
Monday April 17th, second festival of Easter, after Vespers, the alarm bell sounded at the same time in Vérone, Vicence, Padoue. It was only with great dangers that, in these two last cities, the French escaped the massacre; but in Vérone, the streets and the public places filled of fanatic peasants; all the isolated French, all those which-lived in the particular houses were assassinated, without reference to age, of state, nor of sex. Expectant mothers were cut the throat of without pity; the patients and the casualties were massacred in the hospitals; several Véronais suspected of being in favor of the French perished in dreadful torments. Bands the exaggerated ones seized the doors of the city, after having made control on the sentinels and the stations which kept them.
Delegorgue, saved the life with a great number of its compatriots, which was worth to him the congratulations of the general-in-chief Napoleon Bonaparte.
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