"Napoleon in Italy - The Sieges of Mantua 1796-1799 " Topic
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| Tango01 | 10 Oct 2016 12:42 p.m. PST |
"In the center of Mantua, in northern Italy, a covered bridge stretches over the narrow Rio where vendors sell fish from pushcarts just as locals did more than two hundred years ago when Napoleon Bonaparte laid siege to the city. Four cannon balls protruding out of an adjacent wall offer a tacit monument to the sufferings of townspeople during the 1796–1797 siege, when the city, held by Austrian troops, finally fell under French control. Two years later, Mantua was again barraged, this time by a combined Austrian and Russian army, which took it back after four months. In Napoleon in Italy, Phillip R. Cuccia brings to light two understudied aspects of these trying periods in Mantua's history: siege warfare and the conditions it created inside the city…"
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Dave Jackson  | 11 Oct 2016 5:58 a.m. PST |
You posted this before, as I placed it on my wants list on Amazon at the time…. |
| JonFreitag | 11 Oct 2016 8:23 a.m. PST |
Hi Dave, this posting is Armand linking to my review of the book. |
| Dave Jackson | 11 Oct 2016 10:12 a.m. PST |
Ah…see…..I really should investigate these things!! |
| Tango01 | 11 Oct 2016 11:06 a.m. PST |
Good review!…
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