Battle of Modena (1799)

Battle of Modena (1799)
Part of Suvorov's Italian campaign during the War of the Second Coalition
Date12 June 1799
Location
Modena, Italy
44°39′N 10°56′E / 44.650°N 10.933°E / 44.650; 10.933
Result French victory
Belligerents
France France Habsburg monarchy Habsburg Austria
Commanders and leaders
France Jacques MacDonald (WIA) Habsburg monarchy Prince Hohenzollern
Strength
29,000 4,300
Casualties and losses
600 2,400, 8 guns
War of the Second Coalition:
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The Battle of Modena was fought on 12 June 1799 during the War of the Second Coalition, pitting a Republican French army commanded by General Jacques MacDonald against a Habsburg Austrian covering force under Prince Hohenzollern. Marching north from central Italy to relieve pressure on Allied-occupied Lombardy, MacDonald's divisions attacked Hohenzollern's outnumbered force near Modena, forcing the Austrians to retreat with heavy casualties.[1] Although the French secured a clear tactical victory, MacDonald was wounded in a cavalry clash during the engagement, and his army subsequently moved west toward its next major clash at the Battle of the Trebbia.[2]

In the battles of Magnano and Cassano, the Austrians and allied Russian Empire forces swept the French from much of northern Italy in April 1799. MacDonald collected the French occupying forces in south and central Italy into an army and marched north to retrieve the situation. Bursting out of the Apennine Mountains, the French divisions of Jean-Baptiste Olivier and François Watrin mauled Hohenzollern's division at Modena. MacDonald swung west to fight the Coalition forces. The next action would be the Battle of the Trebbia (1799) from 17 to 19 June.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. p. 158.
  2. ↑ Duffy, Christopher (1999). Eagles Over the Alps: Suvarov in Italy and Switzerland, 1799. Chicago: The Emperor's Press. pp. 112–115.
  • Duffy, Christopher (1999). Eagles Over the Alps: Suvarov in Italy and Switzerland, 1799. Chicago, Ill.: The Emperor's Press. ISBN 1-883476-18-6.
  • Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.
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