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,
War of the second coalition
Strategic overview of operations in Europe and the Mediterranean in 1798–1799
Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov at the Battle of the Trebbia (Battle of the Trebbia on 8 June 1799 by Alexander von Kotzebue, 1857)
General André Masséna at the Second Battle of Zurich (The Battle of Zurich, 25th September 1799 by François Bouchot, 1835)
Napoleon Bonaparte, later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was Emperor of the French from 18 May 1804 until his first abdication in 1814, with a brief restoration during the Hundred Days in 1815.
War of the Second Coalition
…repulsed from French territory and then lost significant territories to the French, who began to set up client republics in their occupied territories. Napoleon Bonaparte's efforts in the northern Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars pushed Austrian forces back and resulted in the negotiation of the Treaty…
Napoleon's father, Carlo Buonaparte, fought for Corsican independence under Pasquale Paoli. After their defeat, he eventually became the island's representative to Louis XVI's court.
Bonaparte, aged 23, as lieutenant-colonel of a battalion of Corsican Republican volunteers. Portrait made in 1835 by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux.
Bonaparte at the Siege of Toulon, 1793, by Édouard Detaille