With the road to their capital of Turin wide open, the Piedmontese had no choice but to sue for peace, leaving the Austrians to fend off Bonaparte's relentless onslaught alone. He invaded Piedmont and decisively beat the Piedmontese army at the Battle of Mondovì (21 April). The French succeeded in driving the Allied armies apart during those battles, and Bonaparte decided to divide and conquer. He whipped it into good enough shape so that by the time the campaign opened on 10 April, it was able to attack with lightning speed Bonaparte and his Army of Italy won three battles in three days over the Austrian and Piedmontese armies at Montenotte (12 April), Millesimo (13 April), and Dego (14 April).

Barely a month earlier, Bonaparte had arrived in Italy to take command of what had been a ragged, undersupplied, diseased, and demoralized army less than 40,000 strong. It was an astonishing victory for the young General Bonaparte, still only 26, and his daring Army of Italy. On 28 April 1796, after only a few weeks of campaigning, General Napoleon Bonaparte knocked the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia out of the War of the First Coalition (1792-1797).

The ink on the Armistice of Cherasco was not yet dry when Bonaparte turned his attention to the Austrian army that still stood between him & Milan.

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