Battle of Millesimo

Battle of Millesimo
Part of the Montenotte campaign in the Italian campaign of 1796–1797

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 Republic Kingdom of Sardinia
Habsburg monarchy
Commanders and leaders
Napoleon Bonaparte
Auguste de Marmont
Louis-Gabriel Suchet
Pierre Augereau
Giovanni di Provera
Filippo del Carretto 
Strength
9,000
23 guns
  • Millesimo: 4,000
  • Cosseria: 988
Casualties and losses
  • Millesimo: 700
  • Cosseria: 1,000
  • Millesimo: 2,000–3,000, 18 guns
  • Cosseria: 988, 2 guns

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.