In another annual called the Gem appeared the poem on the story of "Eugene Aram," which first manifested the full extent of that poetical vigour which seemed to advance just in proportion as his physical health declined.
The French armies were more than once defeated by Prince Eugene of Savoy, who drove them out of Italy in 1707.
On the 7th of June he appointed his step-son, Eugene Beauharnais, to be viceroy.
While Massna pursued the Austrians into their own lands at the close of I8o5, Italian forces under Eugene and Gouvion St Cyr (q.v.) held their ground against allied forces landed at Naples.
It is said that out of 27,000 Italians who entered Russia with Eugene, only 333 saw their country again.
