The Battle of Mantua

Every french held citadel and fortress on the peninsula just started capitulating, one after the other. After a four months siege, mantua fell at the end of july. Bonaparte's work was completely undone. The army of italy attempted to reverse the situation in mid august with moreau. Having failed to salvage the situation, he too was replaced by a guy named bartolemy catharine Jobert. Caubert planned to strike out from this position and win back what had been lost. But as we will see, though bonaparte was the principal benefactor of the coup of 18 pumare, he's also the one who nearly blew the whole