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The campaign opened with the Montenotte campaign on 10 April 1796, where despite the limitations of his means, Bonaparte descended from the Alps into Italy and achieved a rapid series of victories that decisively knocked Piedmont-Sardinia out of the First Coalition.
The Battle of Mondovì was fought on 21 April 1796 [3] between the French army of Napoleon Bonaparte and the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont led by Michelangelo Alessandro Colli-Marchi. The French victory meant that they had put the Ligurian Alps behind them, while the plains of Piedmont lay before them.
The respite thus given the reeling Army of Italy led to a turning point in the war. Melas, who resumed command of Coalition forces in Italy, now almost exclusively Austrian, paused the offensive and consolidated his forces, now that the Russians had been removed from Italy. By the spring of 1800 Russia had withdrawn entirely from the Coalition.
Piedmont was the main part of the Kingdom of Sardinia which, despite its name, had its core on the mainland: the densely populated and rich Principality of Piedmont, with the capital city of Turin serving as royal residence. The rulers of Piedmont simply preferred to call themselves 'Kings of Sardinia' because the title 'king' was higher in ...
The Italian and Swiss expedition of 1799 [5] was a military campaign undertaken by a combined Austro-Russian army under overall command of the Russian Marshal Alexander Suvorov against French forces in Piedmont and Lombardy (modern Italy) and the Helvetic Republic (present-day Switzerland).
Savoyard state, circa 1700; note the County of Nice and Duchy of Savoy, today part of France. Northern Italy had been contested by France and the Habsburgs for centuries.Often referred to as 'Savoy', the Savoyard state was split into two main geographic segments; Piedmont, which contained the capital Turin, and the Duchy of Aosta, on the Italian side of the Alps, with the Duchy of Savoy and ...
A view of Turin, the capital of the Piedmont region. The following is a list of the municipalities of Piedmont, Italy. [1] There are 1,181 municipalities in Piedmont (as of January 2019): 187 in the Province of Alessandria; 118 in the Province of Asti; 74 in the Province of Biella; 247 in the Province of Cuneo; 87 in the Province of Novara; 312 ...