Cispadane Republic
Substate | Defunct
1796 CE to 1797 CE
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The Middle of The Earth
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On May 19, 1797, Napoleon had transferred the territories of the former Duchy of Modena to Transpadania and, on 12 Messidor (June 29), he decrees the birth of the Cisalpine Republic, creating a Directory for the republic and appointing its ministers.
General Alexander Suvorov, although nearly seventy years old in 1799, is one of the most competent and experienced commanders of the age.
He has won no fewer than sixty-three battles in the course of his long military career and had been appointed field marshal during the reign of Catherine the Great, though he had been dismissed by Tsar Paul, her son and successor, after the old soldier had the audacity to criticize the new imperial Infantry Code.
He had only been recalled after the Austrians specifically requested that he be appointed to command the combined Austro-Russian army to fight the French in Italy.
Taking command on April 19, Suvorov has moved his army westwards in a rapid march towards the Adda River; covering over three hundred miles in just eighteen days.
After defeating Jean Victor Moreau at the Battle of Cassano on April 27, he enters Milan two days later.
Suvorov moves on to Turin in mid-May, having defeated Moreau yet again at Marengo.
The king of Sardinia greets him Suvorov as a hero and confers on him the rank of "Prince of the House of Savoy", among other honors.
General MacDonald moves north from Naples in June to assist Moreau.
Suvorov, trapped between two armies, takes the bold decision to concentrate his whole force against MacDonald, beating the French at the Trebbia River, close to the spot of Hannibal's great victory in 218 BCE.
The indomitable Suburov, marching back to the north, chases the whole French Army of Italy back towards the Riviera, taking the powerful fortress of Mantua on July 28.
Moreau is relieved of command, to be replaced by Joubert.
Pushing through the Bocchetta Pass, Joubert is defeated and killed in battle with Suvorov at Novi to the north of Genoa.
The Jews are again ghettoized, and the restrictions against them reimposed, due to the restoration of the old rulers in Italy in 1799.