Trebbia

The Trebbia river meets the Po near Piacenza, which is a good base from which to explore the region.

Val Trebbia is a quiet corner of Italy that Ernest Hemingway called “the most beautiful valley in the world”.

The valley of the Trebbia had been recently cleared, and all the forces which tend to the degradation and transportation of rock were in full activity.—Notice sur les Rivières de la Lombardie, Annales des Ponts et Chaussées, 1847, 1er sémestre, p.

Armies have been lost, the fate of empires decided, by the violation or neglect of the simple rules of hygiene; and all through the blood-stained pages of military history do we observe examples, from the time when Scipio lost the battle of Trebbia, or when Bajazet threw away his vast empire on the plains of Angora, down to Kunersdorf, when the impetuosity of Frederick the Great would not allow rest to his men or horses.

The republics established by the French in Italy were overthrown, and the French army retreating from Naples was defeated by Suv�rov on the Trebbia.