Battle of Millesimo

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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 Italy 44°22′N 8°12′E / 44.367°N 8.200°E / 44.367; 8.200 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[1] 23 guns	Millesimo: 4,000[1] Cosseria: 988
Casualties and losses
Millesimo: 700[2][1] Cosseria: 1,000[3]	Millesimo: 2-3,000, 18 guns[1] Cosseria: 988, 2 guns[4]

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.