Four thousand men laid down their arms; and then discovered that, if they had used them, nothing could have prevented Napoleon from being their prize.
Wurmser collected together the whole of his remaining force, and advanced to meet the conqueror.

He, meanwhile, had himself determined on the assault, and was hastening to the encounter.

They met between Lonato and Castiglione.

Wurmser was totally defeated, and narrowly escaped being a prisoner; nor did he without great difficulty regain Trent and Roveredo, those frontier positions from which his noble army had so recently descended with all the confidence of conquerors.

In this disastrous campaign the Austrians lost 40,000: Buonaparte probably understated his own loss at 7000.