In 1796, at the height of the Revolutionary Wars, Napoleon Bonaparte took command of French forces in northern Italy. He was just 26 years old and had never commanded an army before. Within weeks ...

First Italian Campaign, 1796-97, continued The Austrians fortified a narrow wooden bridge in Lodi with fourteen cannons and three battalions, and dared Bonaparte to cross it.

THE ROAD TO GLORY—F. Britten Austin —Stokes ($2.50). On March 26, 1796, General Napoleon, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Italy, with a dubious reputation to maintain, arrived in Nice ...

Napoleon’s 1796 Campaign is a valuable book for anyone with an interest in the period or in military theory, and arguably one that should be read twice, once avoiding reference to the critical ...

Book Review: Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 1. Archives. Latest; Most Read; ... (2010), and Napoleon's 1796 Italian Campaign (2018), this last ...

In “Plunder: Napoleon’s Theft of Veronese’s Feast,” Cynthia Saltzman, the author of two previous books about art, exposes the rich contradictions of the 1796 Italian campaign through the ...