Fills a gap in the literature of military history on the Napoleonic Wars, providing some background to what may have been the first serious attempt to unify Italy for over a thousand years.
As well as being Emperor of the French (and note, incidentally, that Napoleon's title was not 'Emperor of France') it is often forgotten, or simply overlooked, that Napoleon was also King of Italy - a state that essentially comprised all Italy north...
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