It proved impossible to increase Victor Moreau’s Army of the Rhine to more than 120,000-too small a margin of superiority to guarantee the success required. Dagli Orti-Musée de L'Armée Paris/The Art Archiveīonaparte’s plan was to treat Italy as a secondary theatre and to seek a decisive victory in Germany.
Napoleon and his generals, detail of The Trophy of the 4th Dragoons, oil on canvas by Édouard Detaille, 1898 in the Musée de l'Armée, Paris.
