Editing Battle of Novi (1799) (section)

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[[File:Battle of zurich.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2|alt=Painting of a battle featuring a man on horseback in the center. In the distance is a city on a lake.|André Massena's victory at Zurich ruined the new Allied strategy.]]

Years later when Moreau was asked about Suvorov, he replied:<ref>Latimer, 68</ref> <blockquote>"What can you say of a general so resolute to a superhuman degree, and who would perish himself and let his army perish to the last man rather than retreat a single pace."</blockquote>

Historian [[Digby Smith]] called Novi, "one of the bloodiest battles of the era" and the casualties bear this out. Smith claimed that the Allies sustained about 900 killed, 4,200 wounded and 1,400 captured or missing (6,500 totally), plus three guns. Russian generals [[Aleksey Gorchakov]], Tyrtov and Chubarov were wounded. The French lost 1,500 killed, 5,500 wounded and 4,500 prisoners — 11,500 totally. The Allies also captured 37 guns, 40 munition wagons and eight colors.<ref name=Smith163a/> [[Christopher Duffy]] stated that one Austrian account admitted a sum of 799 killed, 3,670 wounded and 1,259 missing, though this adds up to less than the 5,754 reported total. Kray's wing alone had 710 killed, 3,260 wounded and 1,175 missing. The Russians suffered 2,496 casualties. The two sets of figures add up to a total Allied loss of 8,250. Duffy gave French losses as 6,500 to 6,643; evidently this is only the killed and wounded.<ref name="Duffy148">Duffy (1999), pp. 148–149</ref> Statistician [[Gaston Bodart]] noticed 11,000 Frenchmen out of 35,000 and 9,000 allies out of 50,000.{{sfn|Bodart|1908|p=340}} [[Gunther E. Rothenberg]] asserted that both sides lost 7,000 killed and wounded, while the Allies had 2,000 missing or prisoners and the French had 4,000 prisoners or missing plus 37 guns.<ref name="Rothenberg" /> [[David G. Chandler]] rounded the casualties to 8,000 Allied and 11,000 French.<ref>Chandler (1979), p. 318</ref> According to [[Spencer C. Tucker]], 11,000 were killed on the French side, and 9,000 on the Allied side.{{sfn|Tucker|2009|page=1008}} Micheal Clodfelter estimated Allied losses at 8,750, of which 6,050 Austrians were lost including captured, and the Russians lost 2,700 men. The French losses Clodfelter assessed at 9,663, of which 6,663 men were KIA and WIA, and about 3,000 were taken captive. 37 guns were lost.{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|p=109}} According to David Eggenberger, the Coalition lost 8,000 men in the attack, while the French lost 11,000.{{sfn|Eggenberger|1985|p=314}} According to {{ill|Aleksandr Bogolyubov|ru|Боголюбов, Александр Николаевич (генерал)|vertical-align=sup}}, Coalition losses amounted to 8,000 men, and French casualties, including those soldiers who fled after the battle, totaled 16,000 and all the wagons.{{sfn|Bogolyubov|1939|p=118}} According to another version, — [[Nikolay Orlov (military writer)|Orlov's]], — together with the dispersed, the losses amounted to only 15,100, but it is based on the assumptions of some, as stated by the author; by the same estimate 6,500 were killed or wounded and 4,600 captured (11,100 totally).{{Sfn|Orlov|1892|p=301}} According to {{ill|Ivan Rostunov|ru|Ростунов, Иван Иванович|vertical-align=sup}}, general irretrievable and sanitary losses of the French reached 20,000 soldiers and officers (also including the retreat that followed; i.e. those who deserted, stragglers, died under various circumstances, taken prisoner, battle-wounded and sick who were hospitalized, etc.).{{sfn|Rostunov|1989}} Bagration was awarded the [[Order of Alexander Nevsky]] while Derfelden earned the [[Order of St. Andrew]].<ref name=Duffy148/>

Once the soldiers of the French left wing got clear of the Braghena Gorge, they quickly left the battlefield far behind. The right wing, however, was in a difficult spot because it was unable to withdraw through Gavi and Nobili's command blocked its escape route via [[Arquata Scrivia]]. Saint-Cyr was unable to dislodge the Austrians with Dombrowski's men and finally shoved Nobili out of the way by using Watrin's division. Suvorov brought up Rosenberg's corps to the battlefield but did not launch a pursuit. The Russian commander in chief still planned to evict the French from Genoa and the Italian Riviera, but orders soon arrived sending troops elsewhere. Klenau's command to the southeast of Genoa was diverted to secure Austrian control of Tuscany. A French offensive seized [[Valais]] in southwest Switzerland, routing some of Hadik's troops. Suvorov detached Kray to the north with 10,000 Austrians to help.<ref>Duffy (1999), p. 150</ref>

On 25 August, Suvorov's hopes to conquer Liguria were dashed forever when fresh instructions from Emperor Francis reached him. A new strategy put forward by the British and approved by [[Paul I of Russia|Czar Paul]] and the Austrians directed Suvorov to take command of a new Russian army assembling in Switzerland. This army would be formed by joining the Russian troops in Italy to another Russian army in Germany under [[Alexander Korsakov]]. The army was to invade France through the [[Jura Mountains]]. When Korsakov arrived in Switzerland, [[Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen]] immediately moved north into Germany with the main Austrian army. The strategy's timing failed. Charles left Switzerland too early and Suvorov reached Switzerland too late.<ref>Duffy (1999), pp. 152–153</ref> [[André Masséna]] wrecked the Allied plan when he defeated Korsakov at the [[Second Battle of Zurich]] on 26 September 1799.<ref>Chandler (1979), p. 496</ref>