Army of Italy (France)

Poorly supplied (uniforms and shoes were rare), and only getting reinforcements irregularly, the Army of Italy was sometimes reduced to looting to survive.

He condemned officers who had cried Vive le roi !, (English: "Live the king!

Its first victories improved things – allowing better resupply and easing pay problems through "war contributions" from the conquered lands – but memoirs (though not official communiques) speak of individual or collective failures right up to 1797.

[2] Armée d'Italie participated in the war of the Third Coalition (1805), in the battles of Verona and Caldiero in northern Italy, under André Massena.

During the war of the Fifth Coalition (1809), Armée d'Italie was commanded by Eugène de Beauharnais, and fought the Austrians at Sacile, Caldiero, Piave, and Raab.

General Napoleon Bonaparte , commander of the Armée d'Italie on the bridge at Arcole
French Army entering Rome in 1798
Soldiers of the Army of Italy saluting Napoleon in 1796