 The beginning of the 1799 campaign saw the drawn Battle of Verona on 26 March between the Austrian army of Paul Kray and the French Army of Italy under Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer.On 5 April, Kray with 46,000 troops defeated Schérer with 40,600 men in the Battle of Magnano.The Austrians sustained losses of 4,000 killed and wounded plus 2,000 captured.