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.
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The War of the Second Coalition was the second war between revolutionary France and a coalition of European monarchies, led by Britain, Austria and Russia, and including the Ottoman Empire, Portugal,
Italian and Swiss expedition of 1799
…the Helvetic Republic (present-day Switzerland). The expedition was part of the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars in general, and the War of the Second Coalition in particular. It was one of 'two unprecedented Russian interventions in 1799', the other being the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland (August–November…
War of the second coalition
Strategic overview of operations in Europe and the Mediterranean in 1798–1799
General André Masséna at the Second Battle of Zurich (The Battle of Zurich, 25th September 1799 by François Bouchot, 1835)