The Battle of Montenotte was fought on 12 April 1796, during the French Revolutionary Wars, between French forces under General Napoleon Bonaparte and an Austrian force under Count Feldmarschal-Leutnant (FML) Eugène Argenteau. The battle was fought near the village of Cairo Montenotte, in northwestern Italy, and ended in a French victory.
During the spring of 1796, the politically-connected Bonaparte arrived to take over the Army of Italy, his fi...
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The Battle of Montenotte was fought on 12 April 1796, during the French Revolutionary Wars, between French forces under General Napoleon Bonaparte and an Austrian force under Count Feldmarschal-Leutnant (FML) Eugène Argenteau. The battle was fought near the village of Cairo Montenotte, in northwestern Italy, and ended in a French victory.
During the spring of 1796, the politically-connected Bonaparte arrived to take over the Army of Italy, his first army command. His Austrian opponent, Feldzeugmeister Johann Beaulieu was also new to the Italian theater of operations. Beaulieu's ally, the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont also fielded an army against the French. Bonaparte planned to advance from the Ligurian coast to drive a wedge between Beaulieu's 28,000-man Austrian army to the northeast and FML Michelangelo Colli's 21,000-strong Austro-Sardinian army to the northwest.
See Montenotte 1796 Campaign Order of Battle.
On 10 April, the left wing of the Austrian army under Beaulieu attacked a...
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