Battle of Bezzecca

Battle of Bezzecca

Infobox Military Conflict


caption=Battle of Bezzecca
partof=the Austro-Prussian War
conflict=Battle of Bezzecca
date=July 21, 1866
place=Bezzecca, Trentino, northern Italy
result=Italian victory
combatant1=flagicon|Italy|1861 Italy
combatant2=flagicon|Austrian Empire Austria
commander1=flagicon|Italy|1861 Giuseppe Garibaldi
commander2=flagicon|Austrian Empire Franz Kuhn
strength1=unknown
strength2=unknown
casualties1=unknown
casualties2=unknown

The Battle of Bezzecca was fought on July 21, 1866 between Italy and Austria, in the course of the Third Italian Independence War. The Italian force, the Hunters of the Alps, were led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, and had invaded Trentino as part of the general Italian offensive against the Austrian force occupying north-eastern Italy after the decisive Prussian victory of Battle of Königgrätz, which had led Austria to move part of their troops towards Vienna (see Invasion of Trentino).

The Austrians, commanded by "Generalmajor" Franz Freiherr von Kuhn, attacked and conquered the city of Bezzecca. The Italians uncoordinately tried to recover the lost town. Garibaldi himself, moving on the battlefield in a coach because of a wound from a previous encounter, was in danger of being captured. The Italian artillery took a hill close to the town, and an assault by the Italian infantry caused the Austrians to withdraw to their emplacements in the surrounding mountains, thus marking an Italian victory that cost many casualties.

While Garibaldi was preparing to continue the invasion toward Garda to conquer the forts of Lardaro, on 9 August came the message of the armistice between Italy and Austria and the order of general La Marmora, commander-in-chief of the Piedmonts army, to abandon Trentino. On that occasion, in the square of Bezzecca, Giuseppe Garibaldi replied with the famous telegram, with only one word "Obbedisco!" ("I obey!").

External links

* [http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/biog/montluisant.html "Bruno Freiherr von Montluisant"] , biography of one of the Austrian commanders at Bezzecca.


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