Battle of Millesimo

Battle of Millesimo
Part of the French Revolutionary Wars

Attack on château de Cossaria by Nicolas-Antoine Taunay
Date13–14 April 1796
Location
Millesimo, present-day Italy
44°22′N 8°12′E / 44.367°N 8.200°E / 44.367; 8.200
Result French victory
Belligerents
French First Republic French Republic Kingdom of Sardinia Kingdom of Sardinia
Holy Roman Empire Habsburg monarchy
Commanders and leaders
French First Republic Napoleon Bonaparte
French First Republic Auguste de Marmont
French First Republic Louis-Gabriel Suchet
French First Republic Pierre Augereau
Holy Roman Empire Giovanni di Provera
Kingdom of Sardinia Filippo del Carretto 
Strength
9,000[1]
23 guns
  • Millesimo: 4,000[1]
  • Cosseria: 988
Casualties and losses
  • Millesimo: 700[2][1]
  • Cosseria: 1,000[3]
  • Millesimo: 2,000–3,000, 18 guns[1]
  • Cosseria: 988, 2 guns[4]
  • The Battle of Millesimo, fought on 13 and 14 April 1796, was the name that Napoleon Bonaparte gave in his correspondence to one of a series of small battles that were fought in Liguria, Northern Italy between the armies of France and the allied armies of the Habsburg monarchy and of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont.

    1. ^ a b c d Bodart 1908, p. 307.
    2. ^ Francesco Congnasso: I Savoia, p.497
    3. ^ Francesco Congnasso: I Savoia, p.497
    4. ^ Francesco Congnasso: I Savoia, p.497