The Battle of Arcola was a famous 3-day battle. This was during his defeat of the third Austrian attempt to raise the siege of Mantua- (the third phase of Napoleon's campaign in Italy in 1796-97). Napoleons grabbed a flag and personally lead an attack across the Arcola Bridge. Napoleon gambled everything on an attack on the one weak part of the Austrian position that was, their line of communication back to the east, which blocked any more help. However this was scary for Napoleon because his army was only 28,000 because thousands of his soldiers were sick and replacement was limited. This battle took place around as swampy land in the north of the junction of Alpone and Adige Rivers in the15th-7th of November 1796.
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