Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Faransanci ya shiga cikin yakin a arewacin Italiya a kan Archduke na Austria, Grand Duchy na Tuscany da kuma Mulkin Naples a matsayin wani ɓangare na War of the Second Coalition. Janar na Faransa Guillaume Brune ya yi nasara a kan Austrians, a karkashin Janar Heinrich von Bellegarde, a yakin Pozzolo
a ranar Kirsimeti na shekara ta 1800. Wannan ya ba Brune damar ci gaba da hankali a fadin kogin Mincio.