Italian and Swiss expedition of 1799

Italian and Swiss expedition
	Part of the War of the Second Coalition
	; Map of Suvorov's campaign in Italy and Switzerland in 1799
Date	March – December 1799
Location	Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Austria
Result	Russo-Austrian victory in Italy; French victory in Switzerland Russia pulls out of the Second Coalition; ;
Belligerents
French Republic; Helvetic Republic	Russian Empire; Habsburg monarchy Swiss rebels; ;
Commanders and leaders
Barthélemy Joubert †; Jean Moreau; André Masséna; Jean-de-Dieu Soult; Étienne Macdonald; Barthélemy Schérer; Claude Lecourbe; Jan Dąbrowski	Alexander Suvorov; Alexander Korsakov; Andrei Rosenberg; Michael von Melas; Friedrich von Hotze †; Franz Auffenberg; Paul Kray; Ferdinand Rovéréa
Strength
? French; ? Helvetes; ? Polish	65,000 Russians; ? Austrians; ? Swiss rebels

The Italian and Swiss expedition of 1799 was a military campaign undertaken by a combined Austro-Russian army under overall command of the Russian Marshal Alexander Suvorov against French forces in Piedmont and Lombardy (modern Italy) and the Helvetic Republic (present-day Switzerland). The expedition was part of the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars in general, and the War of the Second Coalition in particular. It was one of 'two unprecedented Russian interventions in 1799', the other being the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland (August–November 1799).

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