Capture of Brescia
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The capture of Brescia took place on 21 April 1799, during the Second Coalition war: General Field Marshal Count A. V. Suvorov's Russian and Habsburg troops took the fortress city of Brescia, having c
Brescia City Plan Bibliothèque nationale de France
Suvorov's Italian campaign
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Suvorov's Italian campaign took place in Northern Italy between April and September 1799 and pitted the Russian and Imperial armies led by the Russian Field Marshal Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov
The Battle of Novi, painting by Alexander Kotzebue. Hermitage Museum
General Schérer
Marshal Suvorov, in exile at Konchanskoye near Veliky Novgorod, receives the imperial order to command the troops in the fight against Napoleone di Buonaparte
Portrait of General Bagration, Pyotr Ivanovich