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The Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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In Paris on January 18, First Consul Buonaparte addresses French soldiers, promising peace to the people while urging them to invade enemy states, referencing past conquests in Holland, Italy, and Vienna, and emphasizing discipline amid privations.
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Buonaparte first consul of the republic, to the French soldiers,
Soldiers!
In promising peace to the French people, I have been your organ. I know your valor.
You are the same men who have conquered Holland, Italy, and made peace under the walls of astonished Vienna.
Soldiers! It is no longer your frontiers that you must defend; it is the enemy's states that must be invaded.
There is none who has not made several campaigns, who does not know that the most essential quality of a soldier is to know how to support privation with constancy; several years of bad administration cannot be repaired in a day.
As first magistrate of the republic, it will be pleasing to make known to the whole nation the corps which shall deserve by their discipline and valour, to be proclaimed the supporters of the country.
Soldiers! When it shall be time, I will be in the midst of you: and astonished Europe shall remember that you are a race of brave men.
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Paris
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January 18
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Buonaparte addresses French soldiers, promising peace to the people as their organ, praising their valor from conquests in Holland, Italy, and peace under Vienna's walls. He shifts defense to invasion of enemy states, stresses enduring privations due to past bad administration, promises to honor disciplined corps nationally, and vows to join them in time, reminding Europe of their bravery.