Napoleon Returning to Battlefield

The once bustling port city of Genoa now lay under siege, trapped by the encircling Austrian forces. General André Masséna, along with his French troops and the citizens of the Ligurian Republic, found themselves in a precarious situation. Unlike the original history, there was no British naval squadron setting up a blockade on the ports of Genoa. The absence of this naval blockade altered the dynamics of the siege significantly.