The ancient and modern history of Nice : comprehending an account of the foundation of Marseilles : to which are prefixed descriptive observations on the nature, produce, and climate of the territory of the former city, and its adjoining towns : with an introduction, containing hints of advice to invalids, who, with the hope of arresting the progress of the disease, seek the renovating influuence of the salubrious climes / by I. B. Davis.

  • Davis, John Bunnell, 1780-1824.
Date:
1807
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Credit: The ancient and modern history of Nice : comprehending an account of the foundation of Marseilles : to which are prefixed descriptive observations on the nature, produce, and climate of the territory of the former city, and its adjoining towns : with an introduction, containing hints of advice to invalids, who, with the hope of arresting the progress of the disease, seek the renovating influuence of the salubrious climes / by I. B. Davis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    received a severe check ; and the only alternative left them, was a retreat as precipitate as it was disastrous. The loss they sustained upon this i occasion, though not exactly known, was very considerable. The army of Italy, of which the command had been given to Anselme, was also without its leader. This general having incurred the displeasure of the Convention, from some circumstance of sus- picion, was put under arrest, and confined at Nice, the city which had so recently been the scene of his triumph. Coni was the next object of enterprize, but here the besiegers met with such resistance, that aftermaking several unavailing efforts, they were obliged to quit their undertaking, and once more seek an asylum in the county of Nice. The King of Sardinia, however, closely pur- sued, in vain attempted to save Turin. Rather than sustain a siege, with which he was threatened, he abandoned to the enemy Savoy, the counties of Nice, and Tenda, by which means the French troops had ever after a free passage into Italy.