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unusual facts about Adige River



Giovanni Marchese di Provera

In the fourth attempt to relieve Mantua, Alvinczi led the main Austrian effort from the north, down the Adige River valley.

Paul Davidovich

In the second relief of Mantua, Wurmser and his chief-of-staff Franz von Lauer planned to transfer major elements of the army from the upper Adige River valley to Bassano del Grappa via the Brenta River valley.

Prince Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen

His area of responsibility stretched from the northern tip of Lake Garda to Trento on the west side of the Adige River.


see also

Via Postumia

From Cremona the road ran eastward to Bedriacum, the current town of Calvatone, where it forked, one branch running to the right to Mantua, the other to the left to Verona, crossing the Adige river on the Ponte Pietra, the only bridge on the Adige river at that time, and ending at Aquileia, important military frontier town since Republican times.