✦ History

Part of French Revolutionary Wars

Battle of Marengo

June 14, 1800 · Battle of Marengo

Result French victory

Melas nearly beat Bonaparte until Desaix's division arrived; the Austrians then gave up northern Italy.

On the map Contemporaries

France

Coalition

France
Habsburg monarchy
Napoleon military commander Jean Lannes military commander Louis Desaix military commander Luis Alejandro Berthier military commander Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno military commander
Michael von Melas military commander Peter Karl Ott von Bátorkéz military commander Anton von Zach military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
28,000c. 28,000
Casualties
7,000c. 8,000
Killed
1,100c. 1,100
Wounded
3,600c. 5,400
Captured
900c. 1,500
Guns
15
Guns lost
13
Strength
30,000c. 31,000
Casualties
6,000c. 11,000
Killed
c. 1,000
Wounded
c. 6,000
Captured
8,000c. 4,000
Guns
100
Guns lost
40c. 13

Units

Army of the Reserve (1800)
Austrian army in Italy (1800)

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