Battle of the Mincio

Battle of the Mincio

Part of: Second Coalition War

date	December 25, 1800
place	Place on the river Mincio , today's Monzambano , Italy
output	French victory

Parties to the conflict
France	Austria
Commander
Guillaume Brune	Heinrich von Bellegarde
Troop strength
66,000 men	50,000 men
losses
4,000 men	8,589 men

The Battle of Mincio (also known as the Battle of Pozzolo ) was a military clash between French troops under General Brune and Habsburg troops under General Bellegarde .

After an armistice was agreed between France and Austria after the Battle of Marengo , the Austrians held the line on the Mincio River . The French reserve army was now under the command of General Brune, since Napoleon had left for Paris. On December 25, Brune attacked the Austrian position and breached their positions. The Austrians withdrew to the Adige . Two days after the battle, the armistice was renewed.

literature

• Stephen Pope: The Cassell Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars . Cassell, London, 1999, ISBN 0-304-35229-2 .
• Jean Tulard (Ed.): Dictionnaire Napoléon . Fayard, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-213-60485-1 (2 vols.)