Battle of Gagliano
The Battle of Gagliano was a military engagement between the forces of the Kingdom of Sicily and the Angevin Kingdom of Naples. Fought in early 1300 during the War of the Sicilian Vespers, the battle involved the entrapment and routing of a Angevin heavy cavalry detachment by a Sicilian force near the fortified town of Gagliano Castelferrato in central Sicily.
| Battle of Gagliano | |||||||
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| Part of War of the Sicilian Vespers | |||||||
Ruins of the castle at Gagliano, the fortress targeted by the Angevin advance prior to the battle. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Kingdom of Sicily | Kingdom of Naples | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Blasco I d'Alagona | (POW) Walter V, Count of Brienne | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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200 knights 300 light infantry (almogavars) |
300 knights 200 horsemen | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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22 horsemen 34 infantry | Heavy | ||||||
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