Napoleon in Italy: The Sieges of Mantua, 1796-1799

by Phillip R. Cuccia

In the center of Mantua, in northern Italy, a covered bridge stretches over the narrow Rio where vendors sell fish from pushcarts just as locals did more than two hundred years ago when Napoleon Bonaparte laid siege to the city. Four cannon balls protruding out of an adjacent wall offer a tacit monument to the sufferings of townspeople during the 1796-1797 siege, when the city, held by Austrian troops, finally fell under French control. Two years...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806144459
• ISBN13: 9780806144450
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"