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Italian campaign (1796–1797)
- 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 CastiglioneThe Battle of Castiglione was fought on the 5th of August 1796. General Napoleon Bonaparte's French Army of Italy attacked a Habsburg force under…
- Battle of Tarvis (1797)The Battle of Tarvis was fought between the 21st and the 23rd of March 1797, near what is now Tarvisio in the far northeast corner of Italy, barely 12 km…
- 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 RivoliThe Battle of Rivoli, fought on the 14th of January 1797, nearly ended in catastrophe for France. By eleven in the morning, an Austrian column under the…
- 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 Battle of Lodi, fought on the 10th of May 1796, was not the most decisive engagement of Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian campaign.
- Italian campaign of 1796–1797On the 27th of March 1796, Napoleon Bonaparte summoned three senior generals to his headquarters in Nice. Louis Alexandre Berthier served as chief of staff…
- Battle of ArcoleThe Battle of Arcole nearly ended Napoleon Bonaparte's career in a muddy ditch. On the 15th of November 1796, Bonaparte grabbed a flag and walked to within…
- Fall of the Republic of VeniceThe Fall of the Republic of Venice ended on the morning of the 12th of May 1797, when a quorum-less gathering of terrified patricians voted to dissolve a…