
Episode 55: The Promise
The Age of Napoleon Podcast
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The Austrian Plan for the Battle of Alexandria
The Austrians had over 30 thousand men concentrated in the main body of their force. With bonaparte's army scattered, he could only call upon around half that number. The two armies blundered into each other at the village of morengo outside alexandria. After suffering horendis casualties, the attackers finally fell back. But that was far from the end of it as the white jacketed hapsburg troops just kept coming.
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