Featured battle : Mantua [La Favorita]

Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Date : 16 January 1797

The Austrian relief column under Provera had suffered heavily at the battle of Rivoli [14/15 Jan.] but pressed on to Mantua. A message was got through to Würmser in Mantua to arrange for a coordinated attack on La Favorita. Although the attacks were pressed vigorously Würmser was forced back into Mantua and Provera's force was surrounded. The French captured 4,700 men 22 guns and a mass of vehicles and equipment.

Into Battle with Napoleon 1812. The Journal of Jakob Walter

Jakob Walter. Edited & Annotated by Bob Carruthers
This is a re-presentation of the jounal which was first translated and published in America in 1938. Bob Carruthers has done a really good job in bringing this wonderful work up to date. His inspired selection and inclusion of the watercolours of Albrecht Adam, who witnessed many of the same events as Jakob Walter, makes the book even more enjoyable. That is if the brutal reporting of such a train of harrowing events can ever be enjoyed. The reader is left with an understanding of the life of a soldier in Russia in 1812 and thankfulness that Jakob kept a jounal. A must read.
Pen & Sword Military, Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2013