The beginning of the Italian campaign of Bonaparte in 1796
This article is in certain degree a continuation of the «Italian army of Bonaparte on the eve of the Campaign of 1796», published in our review in № 15. In this research is discussed how the potential of the army of Bonaparte was revealed in the first military operations of the Campaign, for the first time nominated the young General in one of the most outstanding generals of his time, on the basis of simultaneous sources and in particular previously unpublished documents stored in the archive of the French Ministry of Defense.