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| Second Battle of Casteldelfino | |||||||
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| Part of the War of the Austrian Succession | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Kingdom of France[1] |
 Kingdom of Sardinia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Ballì de Givry Prince of Conti | Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 5,000 | 2,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1,900 dead or wounded | 2,000 dead, wounded, or captured | ||||||
The Second Battle of Casteldelfino was a military engagement in July 1744 during the War of the Austrian Succession between France and the Kingdom of Sardinia.
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- "... the standard of France was white, sprinkled with golden fleur de lis..." (Ripley & Dana 1879, p. 250).
- On the reverse of this plate it says: "Le pavillon royal était véritablement le drapeau national au dix-huitième siecle...Vue du chateau d'arrière d'un vaisseau de guerre de haut rang portant le pavillon royal (blanc, avec les armes de France)" (Vinkhuijzen collection 2011).
- "The oriflamme and the Chape de St Martin were succeeded at the end of the 16th century, when Henry III, the last of the house of Valois, came to the throne, by the white standard powdered with fleurs-de-lis. This in turn gave place to the famous tricolour" (Chisholm 1911, p. 460).