In the Battle of Arcole on 15 to 17 November 1796, the French Army of Italy commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte won a victory over the army of Austria led by Jozsef Alvinczi. The battle was part of the third relief of the Siege of Mantua in which Alvinczi's army repulsed Bonaparte at the Second Battle of Bassano on 6 November and at the Battle of Caldiero on 12 November. Meanwhile, Paul Davidovich's Austrian Tyrol Corps clashed with Claude Vaubois' French division at Cembra on 2 November. Davidovich defeated Vaubois at the Battle of Calliano on 6–7 November and Rivoli Veronese on 17 November. After Bonaparte's triumph at Arcola, he turned on the Tyrol Corps, beat it at Rivoli on 21 November, and forced it to retreat north into the mountains.
French Army
Army of Italy: Napoleon Bonaparte (41,560)Fiebeger, p 16 Division: André Masséna (9,540 including 2 cavalry regiments) Brigade: Philippe Romaine Ménard Brigade: Antoine-Guillaume Rampon Brigade: Honoré Vial Brigade: Jean Joseph Magdeleine Pijon Brigade: Charles Leclerc Division: Pierre Augereau (8,340 including 1 cavalry regiment) Brigade: Jean-Antoine Verdier Brigade: Louis André Bon Brigade: Jean Lannes Division: Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois (10,500) Brigade: Jean Joseph Guieu Brigade: Pascal Antoine Fiorella Brigade: Gaspard Amédée Gardanne Division: Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine (8,830 including 1 cavalry regiment) Brigade: Louis Chabot Brigade: Claude Dallemagne Brigade: Thomas Sandos Brigade: Claude Lebley Brigade: Nicolas Bertin Division: François Macquard (2,750 including 1 cavalry regiment) Cavalry Reserve: Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (1,600 in 6 cavalry regiments)
Austrian Army
Field Army: Feldzeugmeister József Alvinczi (c. 51,000, not including Wurmser) Friaul Corps: Feldmarschall-Leutnant Peter Quasdanovich (28,699)Boycott-Brown, p 444. Boycott-Brown lists Quasdanovich as corps commander. The strengths of the component units add up to 26,432. Reinforcements raised the total, which does not include Mittrowsky.Fiebeger, p 20. Fiebeger names Provera as the Friaul Corps commander and lists brigades, but no strengths. Advance Guard and Reserve: Advance Guard: General-major Prince Friedrich Franz Xaver of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (4,397) Reserve Brigade: General-major Philipp Pittoni von Dannenfeld (4,376) Main Body, 1st Line: Feldmarschall-Leutnant Giovanni Marchese di Provera (9,380) Brigade: General-major Gerhard Rosselmini Brigade: General-major Anton Lipthay de Kisfalud Main Body, 2nd Line: Feldmarschall-Leutnant Provera (8,279) Brigade: General-major Anton Schübirz von Chobinin Brigade: General-major Adolf Brabeck Independent Brigade: General-major Anton Ferdinand Mittrowsky (c. 3,000)Boycott-Brown, p 447, 458. Mittrowsky's brigade, which guarded the Brenta valley, joined the Friaul Corps early in the campaign. Its strength is not included in the Friaul Corps total. Tyrol Corps: Feldmarschall-Leutnant Paul Davidovich (19,476)Boycott-Brown, p 447. This source includes organization and strengths. Brigade 1: General-major Johann Ludwig Alexius von Loudon (4,277) Brigade 2: General-major Joseph Ocskay von Ocsko (4,663) Brigade 3: General-major Johann Rudolf von Sporck (2,560) Brigades 4 & 5: General-major Josef Philipp Vukassovich (6,880) Brigade 6: Oberstleutnant Seulen (1,096) Mantua Garrison: Feldmarschall Dagobert von Wurmser (23,708 of whom only 12,240 were fit for service)Boycott-Brown, p 448.Chandler, p 100, 103. Chandler gives a 23,000 garrison and infers that 17,000 were fit for service.
Footnotes
References Printed materials Boycott-Brown, Martin. The Road to Rivoli. London: Cassell & Co., 2001. Chandler, David. Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars. New York: Macmillan, 1979.
External links napoleon-series.org Austrian generals by Digby Smith, compiled by Leopold Kudrna French Wikipedia, Liste des généraux de la Révolution et du Premier Empire