Battle of Pozzolo

Battle of Pozzolo

Infobox Military Conflict


caption=
conflict=Battle of Pozzolo
partof=the War of the Second Coalition
date=December 25, 1800
place=Town on the Mincio River, present-day Italy
result=French victory
combatant1=flagicon|France First French Republic
combatant2=flagicon|Holy Roman Empire Habsburg Austria
commander1=Guillaume Marie Anne Brune
commander2=Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde
strength1=66,000
strength2=50,000
casualties1=4,000
casualties2=8,589

The Battle of Pozzolo (also known as the Battle of the Mincio River) was fought on December 25, 1800 and resulted the difficult victory of French under General Brune against Austrians under General Bellegarde.

Following the armistice agreed after the Battle of Marengo the Austrians had held the line of the Mincio river. The French "Army of Reserve" was now commanded by Brune after Napoleon's departure for Paris. On Christmas Day 1800, he attacked the Austrian positions and broke their line. The Austrians fell back eastwards over the Adige River. Two days later the armistice was renewed.

References

* Pope, Stephen. "The Cassell Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars". Cassell (1999)


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