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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 (in what is now Lombardy, northern Italy).It was the first major engagement of the Second Italian War of Independence, fought between Austrian troops commanded by Field Marshal Karl von Urban against Piedmontese cavalry and French infantry headed by General Elie Foray.
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, 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]
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 ...
Montebello della Battaglia is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 50 km south of Milan and about 20 km south of Pavia. Montebello della Battaglia borders the following municipalities: Borgo Priolo , Casteggio , Codevilla , Lungavilla , Torrazza Coste , Verretto , Voghera .
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 ...
Chambarlhac's division fought at the Battle of Montebello on 9 June 1800 and at the Battle of Marengo on 14 June. [5] At Montebello, the division arrived late on the field and the 24th Light was sent to attack the Austrian left flank. [6] At Marengo, the 24th Light mustered a strength of 2,171 men. [7]