| Battle of San Fermo | |||||||
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| Part of the Second Italian War of Independence | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
.svg){kind=small} Alpine Hunters |
 Austrian Empire | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Giuseppe Garibaldi Carlo De Cristoforis †[1] Angelo Trezzini | Karl von Urban | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 3,000 | 6,400 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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14 killed 60 wounded |
68 killed 264 wounded | ||||||
The Battle of San Fermo, which took place the 27 May 1859 at a pass near Como in the northern part of Lombardy, was an engagement of the Second Italian War of Independence in which the Italian volunteers of Giuseppe Garibaldi's Hunters of the Alps defeated an Austrian force, forcing the Austrians to abandon Como.[2]