Battle of Montebello (1800)
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The Battle of Montebello was fought near Montebello in Lombardy between a French force under General of Division Jean Lannes and an Austrian force led by Feldmarschall-Leutnant Peter Karl Ott von Báto
First attack of the French at the Battle of Montebello in view of the town of Casteggio by Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti, 1806-1807
Battle of Marengo
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The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 between French forces under the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces near the city of Alessandria, in Piedmont, Italy. Near the end of t
Battle of Montebello (1800)
…FML) Peter Karl Ott von Bátorkéz. The action occurred in the Marengo campaign during the War of the Second Coalition. During the lead-up to the Battle of Marengo, the vanguard of the French army in Italy engaged and defeated an Austrian force in a "glorious victory". Napoleon Bonaparte's capture of Milan on 2…
The Battle of Marengo Louis-François Lejeune, 1801
Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David
Torre Garofoli, Napoleon's headquarters before the battle
Michael von Melas led the centre of the army during the attack, but he mistakenly believed that the battle was over before the arrival of Desaix.