Battle of Mondovì

Battle of Mondovì
	Part of the War of the First Coalition
	; View of the Battle of Mondovi, by Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti
Date	20-22 April 1796
Location	Mondovì, Piedmont, Italy44.3833°N 7.8167°E
Result	French victory Armistice of Cherasco; Withdrawal of Sardinia from the First Coalition;
Belligerents
French Republic	Sardinia
Commanders and leaders
Napoleon Bonaparte; Charles-Pierre Augereau; André Masséna; Jean Sérurier	Michelangelo Colli-Marchi; Jean-Gaspard Dichat de Toisinge †
Strength
17,500	13,000
Casualties and losses
600 killed, wounded or captured	1,600 killed, wounded or captured; 8 guns lost

The Battle of Mondovì was fought on 21 April 1796 between the French army of Napoleon Bonaparte and the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont led by Michelangelo Alessandro Colli-Marchi. The French victory meant that they had put the Ligurian Alps behind them, while the plains of Piedmont lay before them. A week later, King Victor Amadeus III sued for peace, taking his kingdom out of the First Coalition. The defeat of their Sardinian ally wrecked the Austrian Habsburg strategy and led to the loss of northwest Italy to the First French Republic.

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