Italian and Swiss expedition of 1799

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Italian and Swiss expedition
Part of the War of the Second Coalition
Map of Suvorov's campaign in Italy and Switzerland
Date March – December 1799 Location Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Austria Result  • Russo-Austrian victory in Italy[1]  • French victory in Switzerland[2]
Belligerents
French Republic Helvetic Republic[a]	Russian Empire Habsburg monarchy Swiss rebels
Commanders and leaders
Barthélemy Joubert † Jean Moreau André Masséna Jean-de-Dieu Soult Étienne Macdonald Barthélemy Schérer Claude Lecourbe Jan Dąbrowski	Alexander Suvorov Alexander Korsakov Andrei Rosenberg Michael von Melas Friedrich von Hotze † Franz Auffenberg Paul Kray Ferdinand Rovéréa
Strength
? French ? Helvetes ? Polish	65,000 Russians[3] ? Austrians ? Swiss rebels
Casualties and losses
in Italy: Unknown killed and wounded 80,000 captured, 3,000 cannons, 200,000 guns[4]	Unknown

The Italian and Swiss expedition of 1799^[5] was a military campaign undertaken by a combined Austro-Russian army under overall command of the Russian Marshal Alexander Suvorov against French forces in Piedmont and Lombardy (modern Italy) and the Helvetic Republic (present-day Switzerland). The expedition was part of the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars in general, and the War of the Second Coalition in particular. It was one of 'two unprecedented Russian interventions in 1799', the other being the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland (August–November 1799).^[5]

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