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Conflicts in 1796

  • Battle of Caldiero (1796)The Battle of Caldiero on the 12th of November 1796 handed Napoleon Bonaparte one of his rarest setbacks on the Italian peninsula.
  • Battle of RoveretoOn the 26th of August, orders arrived from Emperor Francis II to immediately attempt a second relief of the fortress of Mantua.
  • Montenotte campaignThe Montenotte campaign began on the 10th of April 1796 with a battle the French did not start. Napoleon Bonaparte had spent weeks planning an offensive for…
  • Battle of BassanoFeldmarschall Wurmser received a direct order from Emperor Francis II to relieve Mantua at once. The first attempt to break the siege had failed at the…
  • Battle of BorghettoThe Battle of Borghetto nearly ended Napoleon Bonaparte's career before it had truly begun. On the 30th of May 1796, somewhere along the narrow bridge at…
  • Second Battle of BassanoOn the 6th of November 1796, Napoleon Bonaparte's French Army of Italy slammed into a Habsburg force near Bassano del Grappa in Northern Italy and came away…
  • Battle of CastiglioneOn the 4th of July, the formal siege of Mantua began. This fortress held by Joseph Franz Canto d'Irles's Austrian garrison and 179 cannons became the focal…
  • Battle of FombioThe Battle of Fombio began on the 7th of May 1796, when a column of French grenadiers seized a ferry near Piacenza and crossed the Po River in the early…
  • Siege of Mantua (1796–1797)The Siege of Mantua began on the 4th of June 1796 and would not end until the 2nd of February 1797 , a grinding, eight-month ordeal that decided who would…
  • Battle of MontenotteOn the 27th of March 1796, a young General Bonaparte arrived in Nice to take over the Army of Italy. His army included 63,000 troops, but only 37,600 men and…
  • Battle of LonatoNapoleon Bonaparte was outnumbered more than two to one, standing at Lonato with roughly 1,200 French soldiers against 3,000 Austrians who had marched…
  • Battle of LodiThe Italian campaign of 1796 began with French forces moving rapidly through northern Italy. Napoleon Bonaparte needed to force a crossing at Lodi to…
  • Battle of ArcoleThe siege of Mantua held the fate of Italy in its grip during November 1796. Emperor Francis II of Austria appointed Feldzeugmeister József Alvinczi to lead…