Montenotte campaign
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The Montenotte campaign began on 10 April 1796 with an action at Voltri and ended with the Armistice of Cherasco on 28 April. It was the beginning of the Italian Campaign of 1796–1797, which would ult
The Battle of Montenotte, a major battle of the campaign
Portrait of Bonaparte in Italy by Édouard Detaille
View of Voltri, 10 April 1796 (Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti, c. 1802–1806)
Attack on Cossaria Château, 13 April 1796 (Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, 1812)
Battle of Mondovì
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The Battle of Mondovì was fought on 21 April 1796 between the French army of Napoleon Bonaparte and the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont led by Michelangelo Alessandro Colli-Marchi. The French
Montenotte campaign
…the stunned Austrians, Bonaparte's army chased the Piedmontese west after a second clash at Ceva. A week after the French drubbed the Sardinians at Mondovì the Sardinian government signed an armistice and withdrew from the War of the First Coalition. In two and a half weeks, Bonaparte had overcome one of…
View of the Battle of Mondovi Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti, c. 1802–1806
Montenotte Campaign, 21 April 1796