2-750-839 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Battle of Lodi, 10 May 1796, (1921). 'L'infanterie de la division Dallemagne franchit le pont sur l'Adda, pendant que la cavalerie passe la rivière a gué, un peu en amont.' French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte fought the Austrians led by Karl Philipp Sebottendorf at Lodi, Lombardy, northern Italy. Napoleon (1769-1821) is seen on a pale horse, giving orders. After a painting of 1804 by Lejeune in the collection of the Musée de l'Histoire de France, palace de Versailles, France. From "Napoleon", by Raymond Guyot, [H. Floury, Paris, 1921]