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Mantua Must Fall: The Siege That Defined Napoleon's Italian Conquest
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Napoleon's Italian Campaign reaches its decisive test as he neutralises Piedmont in fifteen days, enters Milan, and turns his full force on the fortress of Mantua. This is the chapter where a secondary-front commander becomes the most feared general in Europe.
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In the spring of seventeen ninety-six, Napoleon Bonaparte took command of an army that was starving, undersupplied, and outnumbered by tens of thousands of troops. Fourteen months later, he rode out of northern Italy as the most celebrated soldier in Europe.
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