Italy - Veneto; Vernet - DUPLESSI-Berteaux- A.D.St'Aubin - Bataille de ROVEREDO - 1821-1850

Large - 30 x 47 cm - lovely copper engraving by Vernet from " Les Campagnes des Francais ." c 1820
Later coloring, good impression ,
some flawa and nick upper edge, otherwise good condition
copper engraving,
blank on verso

ps -In the Battle of Rovereto (also Battle of Roveredo) on 4 September 1796 a French army commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte defeated an Austrian corps led by Paul Davidovich during the War of the First Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars. The battle was fought near the town of Rovereto, in the upper Adige River valley in northern Italy.

The action was fought during the second relief of the siege of Mantua. The Austrians left Davidovich's corps in the upper Adige valley while transferring two divisions to Bassano del Grappa by marching east, then south down the Brenta River valley. The Austrian army commander Dagobert von Würmser planned to march south-west from Bassano to Mantua, completing the clockwise manoeuvre. Meanwhile, Davidovich would threaten a descent from the north to distract the French.