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 Venice45.5667°N 10.8167°E
Result	French victory
Belligerents
French Republic	Habsburg monarchy
Commanders and leaders
Napoleon Bonaparte; Jean Reynier; Charles Leclerc (general, born 1772); Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle; André Masséna; Honoré Vial; Louis-Alexandre Berthier; Barthélemy Joubert	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	28,000
Casualties and losses
3,200–5,000	12,000–14,300
	Location within Northern Italy Battle of Rivoli (Europe)

The Battle of Rivoli (14 January 1797) was a key military engagement during the War of the First Coalition in the vicinity of the village of Rivoli, then part of the Republic of Venice. 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. Rivoli further demonstrated Napoleon's capability and deftness as a military commander and led to the Austrian surrender of Mantua in February and French consolidation of northern Italy, ultimately resulting in France's victory over Austria in the war later that year.

War of the First Coalition:
Italian Campaign

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