The Allies Strike Back:
Field Marshal Suvorov
Retakes Italy in 1799

Introduction

by Christopher Duffy
with artwork by
Keith Rocco, Ray Rubin, Steven Palatka and John Pomeroy

It was Napoleon's conquest of Malta in 1798 on his way to Egypt, and the disbanding and looting of the Knights of St. John of Malta, of which Tsar Paul was titular head, that provoked the Russians into joining a second coalition with England and Austria against revolutionary France in 1799. They would take advantage of the absence of General Bonaparte and his 35,000 veterans, now isolated in Egypt.

At right, Russian Field Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevich Suvorov

The Allies were led by a remarkable and eccentric genius, the venerable Russian Field Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevich Suvorov, who in four short months would recapture the territory of northern Italy lost to Bonaparte's campaign of 1796-97. The final French attempt to stop Suvorov resulted in the decisive Battle of Novi on 15 August, excerpted here from Christopher Duffy's latest book, Eagles Over the Alps: Suvorov in Italy and Switzerland, 1799.

The Allies Strike Back: Suvorov Retakes Italy 1799

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