Adam Bajalics von Bajahaza Adam Bajalics von Bajaháza , also Adam Bajalić von Bajaházy or Adam Bayalitsch , ( 1734 - 5 June 1800 ) entered Austrian military service and fought against Prussia , Ottoman Turkey , and France . During the 1796 - 1797 Italian campaign against Napoleon Bonaparte , he commanded a brigade or a division in several actions . Military career . Born in Szeged , Hungary in 1734 , Bajalics enlisted in the " Archduke Ferdinand " Infantry Regiment # 2 from 1750 to 1754 . He rejoined the Austrian army in 1758 , this time in the " Warasdiner " Grenz Infantry Regiment . ( The Grenz were light infantry recruited from the military border with Ottoman Turkey . ) He fought in the Seven Years ' War and earned promotion to lieutenant ( " Leutnant " ) . During the War of the Bavarian Succession , he was a captain ( " Hauptmann " ) and was soon elevated to the rank of major . In 1783 , he was appointed lieutenant colonel ( " Oberst - Leutnant " ) of the " Szluiner " Grenz Infantry Regiment . He served with distinction during the Austro - Turkish War ( 1787 - 1791 ) , becoming colonel ( " Oberst " ) on 28 February 1789 . French Revolutionary Wars . On 1 January 1794 , Bajalics became a major general ( " General - Major " ) . During the French Revolutionary Wars he served as a brigade commander in Count Dagobert von Wurmser ' s army on the upper Rhine . He earned the Military Order of Maria Theresa for his exploits during the Handschuheim on 24 September 1795 , in which a French division was cut to pieces . After General Bonaparte ' s French army overran the Kingdom of Sardinia - Piedmont in the spring of 1796 , Bajalics was posted to northern Italy . He commanded a brigade in Wurmser ' s first relief of the Siege of Mantua in early August . Wurmser assigned Bajalics to mask the fortress of Peschiera . After the Austrian defeat at the Battle of Castiglione , Bajalics sent four battalions of his troops to cover the main army ' s withdrawal . During the fourth relief of Mantua in January 1797 , Bajalics commanded a 6 , 200 - man division that threatened French - held Verona . In this effort , in which Jozsef Alvinczi ' s main army advanced from the north and Giovanni di Provera ' s division moved against Legnago , the Austrian plan miscarried . On 12 January , Bajalics mounted an attack on Verona to draw attention from Alvinczi and Provera . After eight hours of combat with André Masséna ' s division , the Austrians fell back . On 14 January , Bonaparte crushed Jozsef Alvinczi ' s army at the Battle of Rivoli , then he hurried back to Mantua to wipe out Provera ' s column . Only Bajalics ' troops escaped intact from the catastrophe . He was promoted to lieutenant general ( " Feldmarschal - Leutnant " ) on 1 March 1797 . When Bonaparte hustled the army of Archduke Charles out of Italy in the spring of 1797 , Bajalics led part of the right wing in its retreat from Udine in present - day Italy toward Villach in modern Austria . In a confused series of actions from 21 to 23 March , the French succeeded in closing off the Austrian escape route at Tarvisio . On the latter day , hemmed in by the divisions of Masséna and Jean Sérurier , Bajalics surrendered with 3 , 500 men , 25 artillery pieces and 400 wagons . His forces also suffered 1 , 000 killed and wounded while inflicting 1 , 200 casualties on the French . Bajalics retired from military service in 1797 and died in 1800 at Karlovci in modern - day Serbia .