Antoine-Guillaume Rampon
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Antoine-Guillaume Rampon was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He fought in many battles under Napoleon in Italy and Egypt. In one celebrated battle, he
Antoine-Guillaume Rampon
1812 painting of Rampon during the Battle of Montenotte
Montenotte campaign
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The Montenotte campaign began on 10 April 1796 with an action at Voltri and ended with the Armistice of Cherasco on 28 April. It was the beginning of the Italian Campaign of 1796–1797, which would ult
Antoine-Guillaume Rampon
…1793, he remained incarcerated until October 1795. In November 1795, Rampon was named commander of what soon became the 32nd Demi-Brigade. During the Montenotte campaign he gained fame by his defense of Monte Negino (or Legino) on 11 April 1796, where his soldiers repelled the attacks of a superior Austrian force. He…
Portrait of Bonaparte in Italy by Édouard Detaille
View of Voltri, 10 April 1796 (Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti, c. 1802–1806)
Attack on Cossaria Château, 13 April 1796 (Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, 1812)