Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Battle of Montebello (9 June 1800) was fought near Montebello in Lombardy between a French force under General of Division (GD) Jean Lannes and an Austrian force led by Feldmarschall-Leutnant (FML) Peter Karl Ott von Bátorkéz. The action occurred in the Marengo campaign during the War of the Second Coalition.
The Battle of Montebello was fought on 20 May 1859 at Montebello (now Montebello della Battaglia) in Lombardy, northern Italy.The first major engagement of the Second Italian War of Independence, it was fought between Austrian troops commanded by Field Marshal Philipp von Stadion und Thannhausen against Piedmontese cavalry and French infantry headed by General Élie Frédéric Forey.
Battle of Montebello, 9 June 1800. At night on 7 June at Milan, Bourrienne interrupted Bonaparte's tryst with an opera diva to tell him that Murat's cavalry intercepted a message that Genoa had fallen. Bonaparte immediately realized that Ott's corps had been freed for operations against the French and he began to issue new instructions. [73]
Battle of Montebello can refer to two battles, fought near Montebello, Province of Pavia, in Northern Italy: Battle of Montebello (1800), in which the French defeated an Austrian army (9 June 1800). Battle of Montebello (1859), in which a combined Sardinian-French army defeated an Austrian army, during the Austro-Sardinian War (20 May 1859).
Battle of Montebello. The Austrians, under Gyulai, captured Novara on 30 April and Vercelli on 2 May and advanced on Turin from 7 May onward. The Franco-Sardinian move to strengthen the Alessandria and Po bridges around Casale Monferrato forced the Austrians to halt their advance on 9 May and to fall back on 10 May. Napoleon III left Paris on ...
Lannes' birthplace in Lectoure. Lannes was born in the small town of Lectoure, [2] [4] in the province of Gascony in Southern France. He was the son of a small landowner and merchant, Jeannet Lannes (1733–1812), son of Jean Lannes (d. 1746), a farmer, and his wife, Jeanne Pomiès (d. 1770), and paternal grandson of Pierre Lane and wife Bernarde Escossio (both died in 1721), and wife Cécile ...
Battle of Montebello, by Giovanni Fattori . At the reconnaissance Battle of Montebello on May 20, the first in the conflict, Urban faced the French and Sardinian Armies. Despite being outnumbered in men and firepower, he managed to resist the enemy's assaults for nine hours, only retreating with the arrival of the Sardinian Cavalry.
On 16 September 1859, the regiment ceded one of its squadrons, which had fought at Montebello, to help form the Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Montebello". Between 1863 and 1865, the regiment operated in southern Italy to suppress the anti-Sardinian revolt, which had erupted after the Kingdom of Sardinia had annexed the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.