Editing Battle of Trebbia (1799) (section)

===Nure River - 20 June===
[[File:Ponte dell'Olio ponte ferrovia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|alt=Nure River|Old railway bridge over the Nure in [[Ponte dell'Olio]]]]

Suvorov determined to finish with the French so he ordered a new attack at 4:00 am on 20 June. When the Allied forces reached the west bank they found MacDonald's army gone. MacDonald abandoned 7,183 wounded men in Piacenza at the mercy of the allies; — as per Suvorov's earlier letter, 4,000.{{Efn|7,183 comes from Suvorov's report to [[Paul I of Russia|Paul]] (the only verifiable figures<ref name=Duffy110/>), but this is an incomplete number – as per many sources – and was apparently indicated before the Coalition forces fully captured all the French soldiers in Piacenza. In a letter to [[Archduke Charles]], Suvorov indicates 4,000 captured wounded — it was sent to him even earlier.<ref>{{cite wikisource |title=Итальянский поход (1799) (Суворов) |year=1799 |first=Alexander |last=Suvorov |wslanguage=ru}}</ref>}} The French General of Division Alexis Aimé Pierre Cambray was mortally wounded during the battle and died 2 July,<ref>{{cite web |author=Broughton, Tony |year=2006 |title=Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789-1815: Cabannes de Puymisson to Cazals |url=http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/frenchgenerals/c_frenchgenerals7.html |access-date=30 November 2014 |publisher=The Napoleon Series}}</ref> General of Division Dombrowski of the Polish Legion was also wounded;{{Sfn|Skałkowski|1939–1946}} Allied commanders Lieutenant General Povalo-Schveikovsky and Major General Bagration were wounded as well.{{Sfn|Velichko|Novitsky|Schwartz|Apushkin|1915}}{{Sfn|Novitsky|Schwartz|Apushkin|Schoultz|1911}} The Austrians advanced into Piacenza where they found the wounded generals Olivier, Rusca and Salme along with the other non-transportable French wounded. Melas secured the town with Fröhlich's division while launching Ott to support the pursuit.<ref name=Duffy112>Duffy (1999), pp. 112-113</ref>

The chase was headed by the ''Karaczay'' Dragoons and one battery of horse artillery.<ref name=Duffy112/> They made excellent progress until were held up farther south at [[San Giorgio Piacentino]] behind the Nure River by a substantial French rearguard,<ref name=Duffy112/> which was headed by Victor.{{sfn|Orlov|1892|p=228}} This force comprised cavalry, some infantry, and a number of guns that were performed well; they repulsed the Austrian dragoons and 2 pieces of the horse artillery. Bagration then came up with the main body of the advance guard (under the command of Chubarov{{sfn|Orlov|1892|p=228}}) and Chasteler deployed it for a set-piece attack on San Giorgio. The jäger regiment of Bagration on the upper Nure to the right, the jäger regiment of Miller out to the left towards San Paolo, and the four battalions of grenadiers in four lines against San Giorgio in the center. Chasteler has scarcely issued the necessary orders when Suvorov appeared at the head of the Schveikovsky's and Förster's divisions (which had united at Gossolengo), and ordered the attack to proceed. Intense musketry by 17th Light Demi-Brigade, the old [[Auvergne Regiment]], held off the ''Bagration'' and ''Miller'' Jägers on the flanks but the combined grenadiers won a foothold in San Giorgio, and then with the help of the Russian main force they cleared the entire village. A total of 1,099 surviving French soldiers and officers surrendered along with four guns, two howitzers, and three colors. At this point any French resistance came to an end, the big four-day battle was over. The French retreated hastily. Following an unexpected fight on 20 June, Russian advance troops pursued the French almost all night long all the way to Castello di Montanaro. Over to the left the Austrian division of Ott advanced by way of San Lazzaro and Montale, but it encountered a whole French division deployed on the right bank of the Ponte Nure in front of Nure, and was held at bay until the French broke contact.<ref name=Duffy112/><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Petrushevsky |first=Alexander |url=https://archive.org/details/libgen_00294791/page/n139/mode/2up |title=Generalissimo Prince Suvorov |date=1884 |publisher=Типография М. М. Стасюлевича |edition=1st |volume=3 |pages=126–127 |language=ru}}</ref> Suvorov doubled his energy, all day was on horseback and only with the onset of night stopped together with the [[Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich|Grand Duke Constantine]]. Suvorov, neglecting his military theory, came to the conviction that no more could be demanded and resolved to give the men a rest. MacDonald's intercepted letter to Moreau and Victor's repulsed correspondence convinced him that the damage done to the French was too great to be soon repaired. "MacDonald is more than defeated," he wrote to Kray.<ref name=":0" />

The battle at the Trebbia took place on the very places where, in 218 B.C., [[Hannibal]] had defeated the [[Roman Republic|Romans]]. Suvorov was very proud of this coincidence, talked about it with enthusiasm and turned to an Austrian general with a question, why Hannibal did not go from the Trebbia directly to [[Rome]]. The latter replied that there was probably also a [[Hofkriegsrat]] in [[Ancient Carthage|Carthage]]. The joke must have pleased Suvorov, as [[Alexander Petrushevsky|Petrushevsky]] notes.<ref name=":0" />