Josef Philipp Vukassovich
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Baron Josef Philipp Vukassovich was a Croatian soldier who joined the army of Habsburg monarchy and fought against both Ottoman Empire and the First French Republic. During the French Revolutionary Wars, he commanded a brigade in the 1796–1797 Italian campaign against Napoleon Bonaparte. He led a division during the Napoleonic Wars and received a fatal wound in action.
Vukassovich led the rear guard at the Battle of Lodi.
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Battle of Wagram by Emil Adam. Vukassovich was fatally wounded in the Wagram bloodbath.
Image: Miljokaz Karlovac Jozefinska cesta
Battle of Lodi
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The Battle of Lodi was fought on 10 May 1796 between French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte and an Austrian rear guard led by Karl Philipp Sebottendorf at Lodi, Lombardy. The rear guard was defeated, but the main body of Johann Peter Beaulieu's Austrian Army had time to retreat.
General Bonaparte gives his orders, in The Battle of Lodi, by Louis-François, Baron Lejeune
The French passing the bridge, (Musée de la Révolution française).
After seizing the bridge over the Adda, the French defeated the Austrians and proceeded to occupy Milan