Battle of Mondovì
| Battle of Mondovì | |||||||
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| Part of the Montenotte campaign in the Italian campaign of 1796–1797 | |||||||
View of the Battle of Mondovi, by Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| French Republic | Sardinia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Napoleon Bonaparte Charles-Pierre Augereau André Masséna Jean Sérurier Henri Christian Michel de Stengel (DOW) |
Michelangelo Colli-Marchi Jean-Gaspard Dichat de Toisinge † | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 17,500 | 13,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 600 killed, wounded or captured |
1,600 killed, wounded or captured 8 guns lost | ||||||
The Battle of Mondovì was fought on 21 April 1796 between the French army of Napoleon Bonaparte and the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont led by Michelangelo Alessandro Colli-Marchi. The French victory meant that they had put the Ligurian Alps behind them, while the plains of Piedmont lay before them. A week later, King Victor Amadeus III sued for peace, taking his kingdom out of the First Coalition. The defeat of their Sardinian ally wrecked the Austrian Habsburg strategy and led to the loss of northwest Italy to the First French Republic.