 One historian notes that,
The second attempt to relieve Mantua had therefore come to a rather sorry conclusion for the Austrians.Their army commander had managed to get himself shut inside the very place he was trying to liberate, losing more than 11,000 men in the process.The French had failed to make the link between their armies in Italy and Germany, and Bonaparte was, in a sense, back to square one, still faced with the problem of reducing Mantua, which now had a much more powerful garrison.