The Campaigns Of Napoleon Bonaparte 1796-1797 Guide

When Napoleon arrived in Nice in March 1796, he found 38,000 soldiers who were poorly fed, unpaid, and lacked shoes. He famously promised them "honor, glory, and riches" in the fertile plains of Italy.

France gained the Austrian Netherlands (Belgium) and the left bank of the Rhine. The Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte 1796-1797

French forces entered Milan in triumph, beginning the looting of Italian art and gold to fund the French Republic. The Siege of Mantua When Napoleon arrived in Nice in March 1796,

With Mantua finally surrendered and the road to Vienna open, the Austrians sued for peace. Napoleon negotiated the (October 1797) largely on his own terms, bypassing the government in Paris: he found 38

A desperate three-day battle in the marshes where Napoleon famously seized a flag and charged the bridge.