Battle of Millesimo
| Battle of Millesimo | |||||||
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| Part of the Montenotte campaign in the Italian campaign of 1796–1797 | |||||||
Attack on château de Cossaria by Nicolas-Antoine Taunay | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| French Republic |
Kingdom of Sardinia Habsburg monarchy | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Napoleon Bonaparte Auguste de Marmont Louis-Gabriel Suchet Pierre Augereau |
Giovanni di Provera Filippo del Carretto † | ||||||
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9,000 23 guns |
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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.