✦ History

Part of War of the Second Coalition

Italian and Swiss expedition of 1799

March 1799 – December 1799 · Italian Peninsula

Result Russo-Austrian victory in Italy; French victory in Switzerland

Suvorov's Austro-Russian army drove the French from northern Italy but the campaign in Switzerland ended in French success.

On the map Overview Contemporaries

France

Habsburg monarchy

France
Cisalpine Republic
Switzerland
Habsburg monarchy
Russian Empire
Barthélémy Catherine Joubert military commander André Masséna military commander Jean Victor Marie Moreau military commander Jean-de-Dieu Soult military commander Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer military commander Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald military commander
Michael von Melas military commander Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia military commander Alexander Rimsky-Korsakov military commander Alexander Suvorov military commander Andrey Rosenberg military commander Friedrich Freiherr von Hotze military commander

Strength and losses

Captured
80,000
Guns lost
3,000

Habsburg monarchy Strength 178,253

Russian Empire Strength 65,000

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