Battle of Lonato
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The Battle of Lonato was fought on 3 and 4 August 1796 between the French Army of Italy under General Napoleon Bonaparte and a corps-sized Austrian column led by Lieutenant General Peter Quasdanovich.
General Bonaparte at the Battle of Lonato
Salò and Lake Garda
Battle of Lonato won by Bonaparte.
André Masséna
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André Masséna, prince d'Essling, duc de Rivoli, was a French military commander of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire cre
Battle of Lonato
…out of Lonato. As the Hussars chased the fugitives to the east, they were repulsed by two waiting French artillery batteries. General of Division André Masséna with General of Brigade Claude Dallemagne's brigade and Despinoy with Generals of Brigade Nicolas Bertin's and Jean Cervoni's brigades then counterattacked…
Portrait of Masséna made c. 1853 after an 1804 original by Antoine-Jean Gros
Commemorative bas-relief at Masséna's childhood home in Levens, Alpes-Maritimes, installed on the bicentenary of his birth in 1958.
André Masséna as lieutenant-colonel of the 2nd Var Battalion in 1792. Portrait by Ferdinand Wachsmuth, 1834.
Masséna as a general of the French Revolutionary Army, 1796