Battle of Bassignano

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Battle of Bassignana

Part of the War of the Austrian Succession

Date	September 27, 1745
Location	Bassignana near Alessandria, AL, Italy
Result	Franco-Spanish victory

Belligerents

^[1] Kingdom of France

Kingdom of Spain

Kingdom of Sardinia

Commanders

Marquis of Maillebois

Infante Philip

Comte de Gages

Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy

Strength

70,000

54,000

Casualties and losses

200 dead
300 wounded

300 dead
1,200 wounded or captured

v • d • e

War of the

Austrian Succession:

Italian Campaigns

Campo Santo – Villafranca – Casteldelfino – Velletri – Madonna dell'Olmo – Bassignano – Piacenza – Rottofreddo - Assietta

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.

[edit] References

^ 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...". *[1]The original Banner of France was strewn with fleurs-de-lis.