Napoleon's First Campaign II: The Conquest of Lombardy 1796

In April 1796, Napoleon Bonaparte followed his victory over Piedmont with a lightning campaign across Lombardy, culminating in his dramatic victory at Lodi.


This video was Inspired by Epic History TV's Napoleonic Wars Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRUx6...

The artist Keith Rocco kindly permitted us to use some of his illustrations in this video. For viewers interested in seeing his online gallery, you can use the following link: http://www.keithrocco.com



Among the sources we have used are the following:

The Road to Rivoli Napoleon’s First Campaign, by Martin Boycott-Brown;

A Military History and Atlas of The Napoleonic Wars, by Vincent J Esposito & John Robert Elting;

Napoleon’s First Italian Campaign 1796-1797, using text by Ramsay Weston Phipps and Illustrations by Keith Rocco;

The Campaigns of Napoleon, by David Chandler;

Attack in the West, by W.G.F. Jackson;

Napoleon in Italy, 1796-1797, by Elijah Adlow;

Napoleon’s 1796 Italian Campaign, by Carl Von Clausewitz;

The Armies of the First French Republic and the Rise of the Marshals of Napoleon Volume IV, by Ramsay Weston Phipps.

Music from Filmstro used in video: Centurion, Thunder, Tiger, Viking, Ecru.



In “Napoleon's First Campaign II: The Conquest of Lombardy 1796”, we use several images (specified below) pursuant to the license terms of Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
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Imperial Standard of the Austrian Empire with Medium Coat of arms. Used until 1915 also for the Austro-Hungarian Empire: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

This image is used throughout the video to illustrate the location of Austrian units in various battle and campaign maps, and has been altered to look like a waving flag.

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Bust of general Laharpe. Plaster, Louvre museum workshop. On display at Morges military museum, accession number MMV 1004997 by Rama: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

This image is used at 5:06 in the video, and has been cropped.