Italian Campaign

• Napoleon aimed to take the army into the fertile plans in Northern italy and live off the land, he could spread the revolution and planed to invade Austria from the south
• the italian campaign was really a war with austria as austria had control over duchy millan and italian provinces
• Rapid movement and concentration of napoleons forces resulted in a series of French victories in April
• Napoleon failed to take the key fortress in mantua and faced many Austrian counter attacks
• he had many heroic incidents such as the storming of the bridge at Lodi and his personal involvement in the assault of the bridge at Arcola
• Austrian attacks were driven off at Castiglione in a three day battle the Austrians were defeated at Rivoli
• Napoleon established a new state in Italy called the cisalpine republic and invaded papal states and took key territories from the pope
• The Treaty Of Campo Formio 1797 which gave france austrian netherlands and ended the austrian french war
• napoleon returned to Paris in December 1797 a hero
• Napoleons achievements

  • rapid movement of his armies
  • Military abilities
  • storming of bridge at Lodi
  • attack of bridge at Arcola
  • austrian defeat at Rivoli
  • establishment of cisalpine republic
  • Treaty of campo formio 1797
• Napoleon Failures

  • he failed to take key fortress in mantua
  • faced autrian counter attacks