Battle of Bassignano

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Battle of Bassignana


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partof=the War of the Austrian Succession
date=September 27, 1745
place=Bassignana near Alessandria, AL, Italy
result=Franco-Spanish victory
combatant1=flagicon|France|restauration [1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition, New York 1910, Vol.X, p.460: "The oriflamme and the Chape de St Martin were succeeded at the end of the 16th century, when Henry III., the last of the house of Valois, came to the throne, by the white standard powdered with fleurs-de-lis. This in turn gave place to the famous tricolour."George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, "The American Cyclopaedia", New York, 1874, p. 250, "...the standard of France was white, sprinkled with golden fleur de lis...". * [http://www.anyflag.com/history/fleur23.htm] The original Banner of France was strewn with fleurs-de-lis. ] Kingdom of France
flagicon|Spain|1701 Kingdom of Spain
combatant2=flagicon|Sardinia|kingdom Kingdom of Sardinia
commander1=flagicon|France|restauration Marquis of Maillebois
flagicon|Spain|1701 Infante Philip
flagicon|Spain|1701 Comte de Gages
commander2=flagicon|Sardinia|kingdom Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy
strength1=70,000
strength2=54,000
casualties1=200 dead
300 wounded
casualties2=300 dead
1,200 wounded or captured|

The Battle of Bassignana was fought in the Italian campaign of the War of the Austrian Succession on September 27, 1745. It resulted in a victory for the combined armies of France and Spain over Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia.

The Bourbon armies, finally united after a two-year campaign, won through a maneuver that fooled 25,000 Austrian troops to head towards Piacenza and leave their Sardinian allies isolated. The Sardinians were then overwhelmed and beaten.

The Battle of Piacenza in the following year turned back the French and the Spanish and erased the effects of Bassignano.

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* [http://www.voltaire-integral.com/Html/15/10PREC20.html#i11 Success won by Marshal Maiilebois and Don Infante Philip, followed by greater disasters] from Voltaire's histories