Battle of Rovereto
The Austrian army commander Dagobert von Würmser planned to march south-west from Bassano to Mantua, completing the clockwise manoeuvre.This success allowed Bonaparte to follow Würmser down the Brenta valley to Bassano and, ultimately, trap him inside the walls of Mantua.However, he drew some dangerous conclusions from this..." Lauer confidently predicted that the French army would remain quiet long enough for the Austrian relief effort to get well underway.[6] Bonaparte instructed Sahuguet and General of Division Charles Kilmaine to leave a garrison in Peschiera del Garda and fall back behind the Oglio River if they were unable to resist an Austrian attack from the east.Vaubois brushed aside some elements of Reuss's brigade at Nago-Torbole and stood poised to attack an Austrian position at Mori on the west bank.[10] Davidovich placed Colonel Karl Weidenfeld and the Preiss Infantry Regiment 24 in a formidable position in the Adige gorge to cover the retreat of his forces.Aided by artillery fire directed by General of Brigade Elzéar Auguste Cousin de Dommartin, Masséna's troops attacked in heavy columns and broke through.[12][13] During the night, Davidovich evacuated Trento and fell back to Lavis, a village at the river Avisio and southern frontier of Austrian territory, where he joined Reuss.[14] Far from retiring down the Adige with his whole army, Bonaparte ordered Vaubois to block the gorges north of Trent with 10,000 men, while the remaining 22,000 troops set off in full pursuit of Würmser down the same pass that the Austrians were using.This was an extremely risky course to pursue, for during the operation the Army of Italy would be wholly dependent on what supplies it could seize locally, and even a temporary check on the Brenta might lead to starvation in the midst of the Alps.
Italian campaignsWar of the First CoalitionRoveretoFirst French RepublicAustriaNapoleon BonaparteAndré MassénaClaude-Victor PerrinPaul DavidovichPorrentruyQuiévrainMarquainVerdunThionvilleJemappesSardiniaMéribelMartiniqueGuadeloupeDen HelderSiegburgAltenkirchenWetzlarKircheib1st KehlMalschNeresheimAmbergNewfoundlandWürzburgLimburg2nd KehlBiberachIrelandFishguardNeuwiedDiersheimFlanders campaignChouannerieMediterranean campaignWar in the VendéeWar of the PyreneesEast Indies TheatreAtlantic campaignRhine campaign of 1795Rhine campaign of 1796Italian campaign of 1796-1797Anglo-Spanish WarFrench Revolutionary Wars1st SaorgioEpierre2nd Saorgio1st DegoMonte SettepaniItalian campaign of 1796–1797Montenotte campaignFombioBorghettoLonatoCastiglionePeschiera1st Bassano2nd BassanoCallianoCaldieroArcoleRivoli1st MantuaFaenzaValvasoneTarvisFall of the Republic of VeniceVeronese EasterVeronaMagnanoBresciaBergamoCassanoBassignana1st MarengoModenaTrebbia2nd Marengo2nd Mantua2nd NoviGenola3rd NoviMarengo campaignFort BardChiusellaTurbigoMontebelloMarengoPozzoloPorto FerrajoItalian CampaignAdige Riversiege of MantuaBassano del GrappaBrenta RiverDagobert von WürmserMantuaBattle of CastiglioneFeldmarschallTrentoGeneral of DivisionGeneral of BrigadeClaude DallemagneEmperor Francis IIFeldmarschall-LeutnantFranz von LauerJohann MészárosLegnagoArmy of ItalyBrenner PassJean MoreauBavariaClaude Belgrand de VauboisPierre AugereauCharles KilmainePeschiera del GardaOglio RiverKarl Philipp SebottendorfPeter QuasdanovichGeneral-majorsJosef Philipp Vukassovich