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==== Tide turns: French successes (September 1799) ====
[[File:SA 4941-Anno 1799. De slag bij Castricum..jpg|thumb|Franco-Batavian troops attacking Anglo-Russian forces at the [[Battle of Castricum]], 6 October 1799, by Jan Antoon Neuhys, [[Amsterdam Museum]], Netherlands]]
The military position of France, which seemed disastrous during the summer, improved greatly in September. On 19 September, General Brune won a victory over an Anglo-Russian army in the Netherlands at [[Battle of Castricum|Castricum]]. On 18 October, besieged by Brune at [[Alkmaar]], the Anglo-Russian forces under the Duke of York agreed to withdraw. In Switzerland, a Russian Army had split into two. On 25–26 September, the French army in Switzerland, led by [[André Masséna]], defeated one part of the Russian army under [[Alexander Korsakov|Alexander Rimsky-Korsakov]] at the [[Second Battle of Zurich]], and forced the rest of the Russian army, under Suvorov, into disastrous retreat across the Alps to 'Italy'. Suvorov was furious at the Austrians, blaming them for not supporting his troops, and he urged the Tsar to withdraw his forces from the war.{{sfn|Tulard|Fayard|Fierro|1998|p=257}}
 
The royalist uprising in the west of France, planned to accompany the Anglo-Russian-Austrian offensive, was also a failure. The Chouans briefly seized [[Le Mans]] on 14 October and [[Nantes]] on 19 October, but they were quickly driven out by the French Army, and the rebellion had collapsed by 29 October.{{sfn|Tulard|Fayard|Fierro|1998|p=409}}