(.) Victory! Sfondrati has routed the French from Nizza. Sfondrati has reconvened his command in Genova and now drills the conscripts coming in into shape faster than any man has before him. I have received my orders from His Majesty - we must launch a counter-attack and retake Nizza and Piedmont. We will trust in the Istrian forts to check their advance for now his men are needed here, in the heartland. A great victory in another time, but while Rospigliosi persecutes what's left of the Croatians, the West is falling.
(.) Riders came from the Croatian front to report all was well and 12,000 Croats had been slaughtered at Karlovac. He must abandon those hard-won heights and bring them south at the instant the French vanguard at Novara is modest and I have faith in his veterans to clear a way through them. But for his part he took it well and swore to attend to his duty. Never before have I seen such joy crumble so brutally from a man's face as when I told him the line was broken everywhere and that his fine soldiers would soon be surrounded on all sides by the French. (.) Di Canio rode triumphantly down from SItten in the morning to report a victory for his Alpini.
It is much easier to believe that some horror of War and Madness has possessed the French Emperor than to accept this vicious act of treachery for what it is. What madness! To piss on the brotherhood of four hundred years for one insignificant town! To see this day, I find myself believing in those superstitious omens and spirits peddled by the likes of Mazzini. We shall see if that counts for something. I have spoken with a captured French scout who professed he did not even know they were marching to war until they had crossed the border, and that few men in the French Army are eager to fight an ally. If there are small mercies, they are in that our enemies seem as surprised as we are to be engaged in this senseless conflict.
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But how to hold the West for long enough? If we cannot, we must bleed them in a fighting retreat all the ways to the gates of Firenze, or further, as far as necessary.
As it is we must seek a swift triumph in Bohemia and from there reorient to repulse the French.
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