The French prepare a great advance on…

1796 CE

The French prepare a great advance on three fronts, with Jourdan and Jean Victor Marie Moreau on the Rhine and the newly promoted Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy.

The three armies are to link up in Tyrol and march on Vienna.

In the Rhine Campaign of 1796, Jourdan and Moreau cross the Rhine River and advance into Germany.

Jourdan advances as far as Amberg in late August while Moreau reaches Bavaria and the edge of Tyrol by September.

However, Jourdan is defeated by Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen and both armies are forced to retreat back across the Rhine.

Napoleon, on the other hand, is successful in a daring invasion of Italy.

In the Montenotte Campaign, he separates the armies of Sardinia and Austria, defeating each one in turn, then forces a peace on Sardinia.

Following this, his army captures Milan and starts the Siege of Mantua.

Bonaparte defeats successive Austrian armies sends against him under Johann Peter Beaulieu, Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser and József Alvinczi while continuing the siege.

The rebellion in the Vendée is also crushed in 1796 by Louis Lazare Hoche.

Hoche's subsequent attempt to land a large invasion force in Munster to aid the United Irishmen is unsuccessful.

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Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen View → Dagobert Sigismund von Wurmser View → Jean Victor Marie Moreau View → Jean-Baptiste Jourdan View → Johann Peter Beaulieu View → Joseph Alvinczi View → Lazare Hoche View → Napoleon View →

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Ireland, (English) Kingdom of View → Tuscany, Grand Duchy of View → Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic) View → Spain, Bourbon Kingdom of View → Prussia, Kingdom of View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View → Netherlands, Southern (Austrian) View → United Irishmen, Society of View → French First Republic View → Netherlands, Southern (French) View → Batavian Republic View →

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French Revolution View → French Revolutionary Wars, or “Great French War” View → Mediterranean campaign of 1793–1796 View → Expédition d'Irlande View → French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1796 View → Rhine Campaign of 1796 View → Montenotte Campaign View → Mantua, Siege of View →

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