THE 1799 CAMPAIGN IN ITALY - Volume 3: French army at Rome & Naples and the Battle of Trebbia
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MacDonald's offensive. On 14 April 1799, the French Directory ordered MacDonald to help the French forces in northern Italy. Accordingly, he assembled the Army of Naples and moved north, leaving southern Italy in the hands of local forces. bringing its total field force to 36,728 soldiers. The various armies involved from France, Austria, and Russia, after a long series of clashes and maneuvers, ended up in the great and decisive Battle of Trebbia (17-20 June 1799).
Fought near the Trebbia River in northern Italy, the joint Russian and Habsburg Austrian army under Alexander Suvorov and the Republican French army of Jacques MacDonald were approximately equal in numbers. The Austro-Russians severely defeated the French, sustaining about 6,000 casualties while inflicting losses of 12,000 to 16,500 on their enemies.
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