Hundreds were drowned--the river rolled red amidst the corpses of horse and men.

Whole corps, being unable to effect the passage, surrendered: and at ten at night the Austrian commander with difficulty rallied the remnant of that magnificent array on the very ground which they had left the same morning in all the confidence of victory.
It is not to be denied that Napoleon was saved on this occasion by the arrival of the reserve under Dessaix, and the timely charge of Kellerman.

On the other hand it is impossible not to condemn the rashness with which the Austrian generals advanced after their first successes.
The discomfiture of the imperialists was so great, that rather than stand the consequences of another battle, while Suchet was coming on their rear, they next day entered into a negotiation.

Melas offered to abandon Genoa and all the strong places in Piedmont, Lombardy, and the Legations--provided Buonaparte would allow him to march the remains of his army unmolested to the rear of Mantua.

Napoleon accepted this offer.
By one battle he had regained nearly all that the French had lost in the unhappy Italian campaign of 1799: at all events he had done enough to crown his own name with unrivalled splendour, and to show that the French troops were once more what they had used to be--when he was in the field to command them.