Bonaparte arrived in Nice on 27 March 1796 to assume his first army command, amid mutinies and orders revised by the Directory.

On 27 March 1796 a young General Bonaparte arrived in Nice to take over the Army of Italy, his first army command. Two battalions had mutinied in Nice on 25 March, and some demi-brigades hosted royalist councils. On the day he became commander-in-chief he summoned the three most senior generals of division to his headquarters through his chief of staff Louis Alexandre Berthier to give orders for the upcoming campaign. Bonaparte had insisted that the conquest of Piedmont was indispensable, and the Directory corrected its orders accordingly on 6 March 1796.

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