Battle of Millesimo

Battle of Millesimo
	Part of the French Revolutionary Wars
	; Attack on château de Cossaria by Nicolas-Antoine Taunay
Date	13–14 April 1796
Location	Millesimo, present-day Italy44°22′N 8°12′E
Result	French victory
Belligerents
French Republic	Kingdom of Sardinia; Habsburg monarchy
Commanders and leaders
Napoleon Bonaparte; Auguste de Marmont; Louis-Gabriel Suchet; Pierre Augereau	Giovanni di Provera; Filippo del Carretto †
Strength
9,000; 23 guns	Millesimo: 4,000; Cosseria: 988;
Casualties and losses
Millesimo: 700; Cosseria: 1,000;	Millesimo: 2-3,000, 18 guns; Cosseria: 988, 2 guns;

The Battle of Millesimo, fought on 13 and 14 April 1796, was the name that Napoleon Bonaparte gave in his correspondence to one of a series of small battles that were fought in Liguria, Northern Italy between the armies of France and the allied armies of the Habsburg monarchy and of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont.

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