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The Battle of Castiglione took place near Castiglione delle Stiviere in Lombardy, Italy on 9 September 1706 during the War of the Spanish Succession. A French army of 12,000 attacked a Hessian corps of 10,000 that was besieging the town and forced them to retreat with heavy losses.
- 9 September 1706
- French victory
- Castiglione delle Stiviere
The Battle of Castiglione saw the French Army of Italy under General Napoleon Bonaparte attack an army of the Habsburg monarchy led by Feldmarschall Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser on 5 August 1796.
The Battle of Castiglione marked the end of the first Austrian attempt to unblock the city of Mantua [Mantova]. It took place on the very site where Napoleon Bonaparte 's nephew, Napoleon III, would win the battle of Solferino almost sixty-three years later.
- First Siege of Mantua
- The Austrians Advance
- Battle of Lonato
- Battle of Castiglione
- Aftermath
In June 1796, French General Napoleon Bonaparte was preparing to expel the Austrians from Italy. The 26-year-old Bonaparte had already won a name for himself; after whipping the demoralized and undersupplied Army of Italy back into shape, he had kicked the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia out of the war in a matter of days. Then, after a daring cross o...
Following the retreat from Lodi, General Beaulieu had been replaced by Field Marshal Count Dagobert von Wurmser, a septuagenarian veteran of the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). Fresh from the Rhine front, Wurmser arrived on 18 June to take the reins of the Austrian army at Trento, which now numbered around 50,000 men. After restoring a semblance of o...
At 3 a.m. on 31 July, Sauret encountered an Austrian division under General Ott at Lonato. The two sides fought for hours until the arrival of Masséna's division caused Ott to withdraw and leave the town in French hands. This small triumphprovided enough of an opening for Bonaparte to enter Brescia the next morning, at the head of Augereau's divisi...
Bonaparte turned his attention to Wurmser's corps, which he needed to soundly destroy before resuming the siege of Mantua. On 4 August, Bonaparte sent a small force to pursue the retreating Quasdanovich and ordered his remaining 31,000 men to concentrate against Wurmser, who was still at Castiglione. Wurmser commanded some 25,000 men; his right fla...
Although Bonaparte won the battle, he failed to annihilate Wurmser's army. Abandoning the battlefield of Castiglione, Wurmser withdrew across the Mincio River. He stopped only to engage the French in a minor skirmish at Peschiera and to reinforce and resupply the garrison of Mantua before retreating north toward Tyrol. On 7 August, the French occup...
The Battle of Castiglione took place near Castiglione delle Stiviere in Lombardy, Italy on 9 September 1706 during the War of the Spanish Succession. A French army of 12,000 attacked a Hessian corps of 10,000 that was besieging the town and forced them to retreat with heavy losses.
The Battle of Castiglione took place near Castiglione delle Stiviere in Lombardy, Italy on 8 September 1706 during the War of the Spanish Succession. A French army of 12,000 attacked a Hessian corps of 10,000 that was besieging the town and forced them to retreat with heavy losses.
Augereau (8,602 infantry, 245 cavalry, 7 guns) sent the 69e Ligne to threaten Liptay's right flank while the bulk of the division engaged the Austrian line frontally. Divisional chief-of-staff Colonel Verdier was given a force of consolidated grenadiers to assault the Castello.
