Battle of Mentana

Battle of Mentana
	Part of the Unification of Italy
	; The Battle of Mentana.
Date	3 November 1867
Location	Near Mentana, modern Italy
Result	Franco-Papal victory
Belligerents
Italian volunteers	France; Papal States
Commanders and leaders
Giuseppe Garibaldi	Hermann Kanzler; Balthazar Alban Gabriel, baron de Polhès
Strength
Uncertain: 4,000; 8,100; 10,000	Uncertain: 5,000; 5,500;
Casualties and losses
1,100 killed & wounded; 800-1,000 captured	Papal:; 144 killed & wounded; French:; 2 killed & 36 wounded

The Battle of Mentana was fought on November 3, 1867, near the village of Mentana, located north-east of Rome (then in the Papal States, now modern Lazio), between French-Papal troops and the Italian volunteers led by Giuseppe Garibaldi. Garibaldi and his troops were attempting to capture Rome, then the main center of the peninsula still outside of the newly unified Kingdom of Italy. The battle ended in a victory by the French-Papal troops.

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