Revolt at Pavia Size:Standard: 6 x 4in View showing soldiers

View showing soldiers

The lower putti struggle to support an overflowing cornucopia

Surrey Theatre and Surrey Coffee House on Blackfriars Road

and Bryan "Chas" Chandler (bass)

Revolt at Pavia Size:Standard: 6 x 4in View showing soldiersRevolt at Pavia, Italy 7 Prairial, Year 4 (May 1796). Pavia was under the control of the Austrians until captured by Napoleon in 1796. On 23rd and 24th May 1796, 10,000 local people, led by their priest, revolted and surrounded the French garrison. Napoleon crushed the revolt and had the leaders shot, a fate shared by the French army captain of the garrison, who had surrendered to the rebels without a fight.