The Army of Italy (French: Armee d'Italie) was a French army that was founded in 1789 after the French Revolution. During the French Revolutionary Wars they fought under Napoleon Bonaparte against the Austrian Empire from 1796 to 1797 in the Italian Campaign. The army was low on funds, supplies, and food when Napoleon took command of the army in the spring of 1796, but Napoleon trained the army to live off the land. Napoleon's career as commander of the Armee d'Italie would make him a hero in France, and his subordinates would later rise to become his marshals and close aides.
Generals[]
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Jean Lannes
- Jean Seruier
- Jean-Andre Massena
- Barthelemy Catherine Joubert
- Geraud Duroc
- Louis Gabriel Suchet
Gallery[]
French troops marching
Napoleon Bonaparte and his generals in Italy
Napoleon Bonaparte in July 1796
French volunteers
French troops at the Battle of Trient, 1796