Hanging with History

1797 Napoleon, Rivoli and Fishguard


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The last invasion of Britain and Napoleon's Rivoli campaign along with his final drive towards Vienna obviously deserve to be in one single episode.  Not.

It is merely the conceit of combining all the land warfare of 1797 into a single episode that allows this.  The Fishguard invasion is only rivalled for drama, action, and intensity by the Texas Chicken War of 1719.  

The Rivoli campaign is truly a marvel of Napoleonic warfare.   Napoleon defeats a 50,000 man Austrian army and turns it into a mass of 13,000 refugees.  The Austrians raise another army, under their best general, Archduke Charles, only to see that one destroyed as well.  There is nothing between Napoleon and Vienna.  The Empire is forced to sign a one sided peace by Napoleon.

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