✦ History

Part of French Revolutionary Wars, Italian campaign of 1796–1797

Battle of Rivoli

January 14–15, 1797 · Battle of Rivoli

Result French victory

Bonaparte broke the last Austrian attempt to relieve Mantua.

On the map Contemporaries

France

Coalition

France
Habsburg monarchy
Napoleon military commander Barthélémy Catherine Joubert military commander André Masséna military commander Jean Lannes military commander Luis Alejandro Berthier military commander Charles Leclerc military commander
Josef Philipp Vukassovich military commander Joseph Ocskay von Ocsko military commander Antal Lipthay military commander József Alvinczi military commander Prince Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
20,500c. 22,000
Casualties
5,000c. 3,200
Captured
c. 1,000
Guns
20c. 60
Strength
28,000c. 28,000
Casualties
c. 12,000
Captured
8,000–10,000c. 8,000
Guns
c. 90
Guns lost
c. 8
Guns captured
40

Units

Army of Italy
Austrian army in Italy (1796–1797)

Also involved 2