Trebbia
Trebbia , river, c.70 mi (110 km) long, rising in the Ligurian Apennines, N Italy, and flowing generally NE past Bobbio to join the Po River near Piacenza. Near that city in 218 BC Hannibal won a decisive victory over the Romans. In 1799 the Trebbia was the scene of a Russo-Austrian victory over the French.
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Piacenza
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names
...bc) prepared to defend a newly founded colony a little way beyond the confluence of the Rivers Po and Trebbia. The armies met on the Trebbia in December 218 bc, Hannibal emerging as the victor. The survivors of Scipio's army wintered in the colony...
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Jacques Étienne Joseph Alexandre Macdonald
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...French Revolutionary Wars, particularly in Italy, but was defeated by Russian forces under Aleksandr Suvorov at the battle of Trebbia (June, 1799). He aided Napoleon's coup of 18 Brumaire (1799). Temporarily in disgrace for defending Jean Victor Moreau , he...
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Scipio
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Gaul, then rushed back to Italy, where he failed to hold the enemy at the Ticino River. He fought (against his judgment) at Trebbia, where Hannibal won (218) his great victory. The next year he joined Calvus in Spain. Publius was the father of the conqueror...
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Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Republic. Sent to oust the French from Italy, he defeated them at Cassano, took Milan and Turin, and routed the French on the Trebbia and at Novi. Having driven the French out of N Italy, Suvorov planned to march on Paris, but instead was ordered to Switzerland...
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Hannibal
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...his superior cavalry overran the Po valley, winning recruits from the Gallic tribes. A Roman force tried to stop him on the Trebbia, only to be wiped out. In the spring of 217 he crossed the Apennines and marched toward Rome. At Lake Trasimeno he destroyed...
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