Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Imola (Napoleon's Italian Campaigns).

Fought February 3, 1797, when 8,000 French and Italians, under Victor, defeated the Papal troops, 7,000 strong, under General Colli. Victor took the Papal army in the rear, and routed them with a loss of a few hundred only, as no stand was made.