Bonaparte's Armistice With Austria

On mar 30 first, bonaparte sent a letter to archduke charles asking if the archduke was interested in an armistice. Charles did not immediately respond, so bonaparte kept up the pressure. He ordered 20 thousand men he had left back guarding the northern passes above mantua to go ahead and start advancing for a planned convergence deep in austrian territory. They marched up through the alps, and by april the seventh, had made it as far as leoben - just a hundred miles southwest of vienna. And that is when charles finally said, ok, stop.