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Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 1. Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-3025-7; Clausewitz, Carl von (2021). The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 2.
The Franco-Italian army was commanded by Viceroy of Italy Eugène de Beauharnais, stepson of Napoleon Bonaparte, while the allied army, in this theatre of operations, was placed under the command of the Austrian field marshal Heinrich Johann Bellegarde and the British general William Bentinck.
The campaign demonstrated Napoleon's abilities as a leader of the French Army. Bonaparte became famous in France, and became well-known throughout all of Europe. Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, a French representative of the Directory, stated about Napoleon post-campaign: “The General-in-Chief has rendered the most important services.…
The Battles of Stockach and Engen in May 1800, followed by a larger battle at Meßkirch, followed the Hohentwiel capitulation to the French.. Although the First Coalition forces achieved several initial victories at Verdun, Kaiserslautern, Neerwinden, Mainz, Amberg and Würzburg, the efforts of Napoleon Bonaparte in northern Italy pushed Austrian forces back and resulted in the negotiation of ...
Napoleon himself was worried by the tenacious resistance of the defenders, and the advance of an enemy army coming from Piedmont. On 27 May, Napoleon ordered a division commanded by Joseph Chabran to besiege the fort, and continued on with the rest of the army, rejoining his advance guard. A regiment of 1,243 riflemen led by 119 officers ...
Italian campaign can refer to: Italian campaign of 1524–1525, a campaign during the Italian Wars; Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars, 1796–1800 campaigns led by Napoleon Bonaparte; Second Italian War of Independence, an 1859 campaign fought by Napoleon III of France and Kingdom of Sardinia against Austria
Napoleon I is a game in which players join the emperor Napoleon's campaign with the coalition allied against him. [1] The game has three campaigns based on historical scenarios: the Grande Armee against the forces of Austria and Russia (1805), two campaigns involving Napoleon's forces in France and surrounding countries (1806, 1809), and the French against multiple countries (1813-1814). [2]
In the fall of 1805, Emperor Napoleon I of France planned for his powerful Grande Armée to fall upon and crush the Austrian Empire army in southern Germany. The French emperor hoped to win the war in the Danube valley. To help accomplish this purpose, Napoleon wanted Masséna to hold Archduke Charles' large army in Italy for as long as possible.