text:  Both rose to eminence for the first time by the lustre of their Italian campaigns; the most brilliant strokes of both were delivered almost on the same ground immediately after having surmounted the Alps; both headed the forces of the democratic party in the country whose warriors they led and were aided by it in those which they conquered; both had a thorough aversion for that party in their hearts; both continued by their single genius for nineteen years in hostility against a host of enemies; both were overthrown at last in a single battle on a distant shore far from the scene of their former triumphs; both were driven into exile by the hatred or apprehensions of their enemies; both after having reached the summit of glory died alone and unbefriended in a distant land; both have left names immortal in the rolls of fame