July to September 1794
Following his release, Napoleon was appointed to the Bureau Topographique and then to the second-in-command of the Army of the Interior.

August 6th to September 14th, 1794
Imprisoned after the fall of Robespierre.

October 5th, 1794
The "whiff of grapeshot". Napoleon disperses the rebels of the 13th Vendimaire and saves the Convention.

March 2nd, 1796
Napoleon takes command of the Army of Italy.

March 9th, 1796
Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais but has to leave almost immediately for Italy.

May 10th, 1796
At the start of his Italian campaign Napoleon has only a ragged and ill-equipped force. He is facing two armies; the Austrians commanded by General Jean Beaulieu and the Piedemontese under Baron Colli. In a manoeuvre that was to become something of a Napoleonic trademark he struck between the two, dividing and defeating the seperately (Colli at Mondovi, April 21st, forcing the Piedemontese to withdraw from the war, and Beaulieu at Lodi, on May 10th). Now the whole of Northern Italy was in French hands except for the Austrian garrison at Mantua which Napoleon now besieged.

May 15th, 1796
Napoleon enters Milan and pacifies the rest of Lombardy.

August 3rd to 5th, 1796
Again facing two Austrian armies converging on him to lift the siege of Mantua, Napoleon takes them onseperately, defeating Quasdanovitch on August 3rd at Lonato and Wurmser at Castiglione on August 5th.