In 180s the Austrians were defeated at Ulm, and a French army under Marshall Ney occupied Innsb uck. Then came the battle of Austerlitz, which shattered the power of Austria, and the Treaty of Pressburg, by which Tyrol and Vorarlberg were given up to Bavaria. In 1806 the Bavarians took formal possession of their new territory. Tiroler Eagle. | (3) Eagle, Tiroler Eagle, Wherefore art thou so red? The life-blood across me dashes, For the heart of the foe hath bled. Dark flows the deadly current
, Therefore am I so red. /' The (1) Eagle,, Tinier Eagle, Wherefore art thou so red ? The sunlight across me flashes Ts I dart from my rocky bed. The Ortler summit is glowing, Therefore am I so red. (a) Eagle, Tyroler Eagle, Wherefore art thou so red? I have drunk of the flowing vintage In the Etschland .vineyard shed. Rosy the rich wine flushes, Therefore am I to red. ■ ( 4 ) Eagle, Tiroler Eagle, Wherefore art thou so red ? From the Alpine sunlight glowing, From the wine of the vineyards shed, From the
blood of invaders flowing, The Tiroler Eagle is red. National song by Johann Senn fjç2 — Translated by C. II. C. We now come to the Patriotic War of 1809, . for a brief but spirited account of which we cannot do better than follow that of L. Garreaud, translated from the French by I. A. G, The figure who stands out in bold relief, in that national rising, is Andreas Hofer, the hero of the Tyroleans, who united In his character the two national traits ; fidelity to God and to his sovereign. Andre's
