The Italian and Swiss expedition of 1799 involved two military campaigns undertaken by a combined Austro-Russian army under overall command of the Russian Marshal Alexander Suvorov against French forc
The Battle of Novi, an Alexander Kotzebue painting
Suvorov in Italy in 1799
Suvorov crossing the Alps. Heroifying painting by Vasily Surikov (1899).
Suvorov victorious at the Battle of Trebbia. Alexander von Kotzebue, 1889.
Second Battle of Zurich
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The Second Battle of Zurich was a key victory by the Republican French army in Switzerland led by André Masséna over a Russian force commanded by Alexander Rimsky-Korsakov near Zürich, as it broke the
Italian and Swiss expedition of 1799
…state of over-confidence. Taking full advantage of this, the French under André Masséna attacked on 25 September 1799, winning a decisive victory in the Second Battle of Zürich and forcing Korsakov to withdraw rapidly to Schaffhausen, despite almost no pursuit by the French. Suvorov was making his way across the Devil's Bridge…
The Battle of Zurich François Bouchot, 1835
Contemporary drawing of the battle by Siméon Fort.
Memorial on Limmat river in Dietikon