Rivoli, a town of Northern Italy, 8 miles W. of Turin, with two royal castles and some industry. Pop. 5314. It was not near this place, but near Rivoli, 12 miles NW. of Verona, that Napoleon won on 14th and 15th January 1797 one of his most decisive victories over the Austrians.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 739
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