Battle of Montenotte
1796 CE.
Shown on the map at 44.400°, 8.267°.
Battle of Montenotte was fought on 12 April 1796, near Montenotte Superiore (then in the Kingdom of Sardinia, now in Italy), being the opening engagement of Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian Campaign. The French Army of Italy, under the command of General Napoleon Bonaparte, defeated an Austrian corps under Field Marshal Eugène-Guillaume Argenteau. The victory successfully severed the connection between the Austrian army and their allies, the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia, allowing Bonaparte to isolate and defeat each force in detail. By the morning of the 12th, Bonaparte concentrated large forces against Argenteau's now-outnumbered troops. The strongest French push came from the direction of the mountaintop redoubt, but a second force fell on the weak Austrian right flank and overwhelmed it. In its hasty retreat from the field, Argenteau's force lost heavily and was badly disorganized. This attack against the boundary between the Austrian and Sardinian armies threatened to sever the link between the two allies. This action was part of the Montenotte campaign.
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