Battle of Rivoli

Battle of Rivoli
Part of the Italian campaigns in the War of the First Coalition
Napoleon at the Battle of Rivoli, by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux
Date 14 January 1797 Location Rivoli Veronese, Republic of Venice 45°34′00″N 10°49′00″E / 45.5667°N 10.8167°E / 45.5667; 10.8167 Result French victory[1]
Belligerents
French Republic	Habsburg monarchy
Commanders and leaders
Napoleon Bonaparte Barthélemy Joubert André Masséna Gabriel Venance Rey Louis-Alexandre Berthier Charles Leclerc Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle Honoré Vial	József Alvinczi Joseph Ocskay von Ocsko Anton Lipthay de Kisfalud Franz Joseph, Marquis de Lusignan Heinrich XV, Prince Reuss of Greiz Peter von Quosdanovich Josef Philipp Vukassovich
Strength
22,000[2]	28,000[2][3]
Casualties and losses
3,200[2][3]–5,000[4]	12,000[2]–14,300[3]
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The Battle of Rivoli (14 January 1797) was a key military engagement during the War of the First Coalition near the village of Rivoli, then part of the Republic of Venice. In the climax of the Italian campaign of 1796-1797, the outnumbered French Army of Italy commanded by General Napoleon Bonaparte decisively defeated the attacking Austrian army commanded by General of the Artillery Jozsef Alvinczi, who was attempting to march south in a fourth and final attempt to relieve the siege of Mantua. The French victory at Rivoli further demonstrated Bonaparte's capability and deftness as a military commander, and led to the Austrian surrender of Mantua in February, French consolidation of northern Italy, and ultimately France's victory over Austria in the war later that year.