Italian Campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars
1st Saorgio
Méribel
Epierre
2nd Saorgio
1st Dego
Monte Settepani
Loano
Montenotte Campaign
2nd Dego
Ceva
Fombio
Lodi
Borghetto
Lonato
Castiglione
Peschiera
Rovereto
1st Bassano
2nd Bassano
Calliano
Caldiero
Arcole
Rivoli
1st Mantua
Faenza
Valvasone
Tyrol
Tarvis
Fall of the Republic of Venice
Veronese Easter
Verona
Magnano
Brescia
Cassano
Bassignana
1st Marengo
Modena
Trebbia
2nd Marengo
2nd Mantua
Novi
Gavi
2nd Novi
Genola
3rd Novi
Genoa
Fort Bard
Chiusella
Montebello
Marengo
Pozzolo
Porto Ferrajo
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The Battle of Lonato was fought on 3 and 4 August 1796 between the French Army of Italy under General Napoleon Bonaparte and a corps-sized Austrian column led by Lieutenant General Peter Quasdanovich. A week of hard-fought actions that began on 29 July and ended on 4 August resulted in the retreat of Quasdanovich's badly mauled force. The elimination of Quasdanovich's threat allowed Bonaparte to concentrate against and defeat the main Austrian army at the Battle of Castiglione on 5 August. Lonato del Garda is located near the SP 668 highway and the Brescia-Padua section of Autostrada A4 to the southwest of Lake Garda.
On 29 July, the Austrians advanced out of the Alps to capture the towns of Gavardo and Salò on the west side of Lake Garda. The Austrians followed up this success by surprising and seizing the French base at Brescia on 30 July. An Austrian brigade captured Lonato del Garda on the 31st but was ejected from the town by a French counterattack after tough fighting. Also on the 31st, a French division briefly recaptured Salò, rescued a small band of compatriots, and fell back. This series of combats and other battles east of Lake Garda compelled Bonaparte to raise the siege of Mantua.
Leaving only one division to observe the main Austrian army to the east, Bonaparte assembled overwhelming force and recaptured Brescia on 1 August. Quasdanovich regrouped around Gavardo on 2 August, while ordering an attack by several columns for the next day. On 3 August, one of the Austrian columns defeated a French brigade and captured Lonato for the second time. However, the French also attacked that day, capturing Salò and nearly taking Gavardo. With most of the Austrian forces placed on the defensive, Bonaparte massed against the solitary brigade in Lonato and crushed it. This disaster caused Quasdanovich to order a retreat on 4 August. In a final calamity, one withdrawing Austrian column was cut off and captured.
French inflicted crippling defeats on the Austrian Right Column in the BattleofLonato. Quasdanovich finally ordered a retreat to the north. Sending Sauret...
in the repression of royalist insurrections in Ardèche, then joined the Army of Italy, distinguishing himself at the battleofLonato, where he commanded...
the Duchy of Ferrara: Polesine, Este, and Scodosia di Montagna to the Marquisate of Mantua: Peschiera, Asola, and Lonato to the Kingdom of Hungary, if...
attempts to break the French Siege of Mantua. In the first, he lost the BattleofLonato after a complicated series of maneuvers between 29 July and 4 August...
and battle standards to the French. The first relief of Mantua failed at the battlesofLonato and Castiglione in early August. The defeat caused Wurmser...
joined by the brigades of Sporck and Reuss. The BattleofLonato was an intricate series of actions fought on the west side of Lake Garda over the next...
BattleofLonato were the major actions in a campaign which marked the first attempted relief of the Siege of Mantua. While Wurmser advanced east of Lake...
when Sauret drove the Austrians away after a sharp action. During the BattleofLonato on 3 August, Guieu led Sauret's division when the latter was injured...
chronological list of the battles involving France in modern history. These lists do not include the battlesof the French civil wars (as the Wars of Religion,...
ISBN 978-0-304-35305-7, p. 382; Smith, Battlesof "Lonato" and "Castiglione delle Stiviere," p. 119. Smith, Battlesof "Lonato" and "Castiglione delle Stiviere...
Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the BattleofLonato. 1821 – The Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time as...
defeated some 50,000 Austrians under Field Marshal Wurmser at the battlesofLonato and Castiglione. The Austrian commander was forced back into the Alps...
However, the BattleofLonato ended badly for the Austrians. Quasdanovich's other Austrian brigades had been ordered to converge on Lonato, but instead...
is a list of sieges, land and naval battlesof the War of the First Coalition (20 April 1792 – 18 October 1797). It includes the battlesof: the Low Countries...
Wars: Battle of Lonato – The French Army of Italy under Napoleon crushes an Austrian brigade. August 5 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battleof Castiglione...
Wars: Battle of Lonato – The French Army of Italy under Napoleon crushes an Austrian brigade. August 5 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battleof Castiglione...
Cassagne led the scouts of the left wing of André Masséna's division. Ordered to pursue the Austrians after the BattleofLonato, he was seriously wounded...
He led his soldiers with distinction at the BattleofLonato. On 31 July, his troops helped recover Lonato from Peter Ott's Austrians. On 3 August, Ott...
near Pastrengo the next day. The morning of 3 August marked the start of the very complex BattleofLonato between the French and Peter Vitus von Quosdanovich's...
August - 2nd BattleofLonato, French victory over Austria. 5 August - Battleof Castiglione, French victory over Austria. 11 August - Battleof Neresheim...
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