Battle of Santa Lucia

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Battle of Santa Lucia
Part of the First Italian War of Independence
Date 6 May 1848
Location Santa Lucia, Verona, Lombardy-Venetia
Result Unexploited Sardinian victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Sardinia Austrian Empire
Commanders
Carlo Alberto of Savoy Josef Radetzky
Strength
33000 infantry
8500 cavalry
82 cannon		 33000 infantry
9000 cavalry
84 field artillery
192 fortification cannon
Casualties and losses
110 dead
776 wounded		 72 dead
190 wounded
87 prisoners
v • d • e
First Italian

Independence War
Milan – Pastrengo – Santa Lucia – Goito
– Peschiera – Vicenza – Custoza – Novara

Coordinates: 45°25′26.1″N 10°56′54.7″E / 45.423917, 10.948528 The battle of Santa Lucia was an episode in the First Italian War of Independence. On 6 May 1848, when the king of Sardinia, Carlo Alberto, sent I Corps of the Sardinian army to assault the fortified positions held before the walls of Verona by the Austrian army under field marshal Josef Radetzky. It is named after the Santa Lucia district of Verona. Franz Joseph (then only 17 years old) assisted at the battle.

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[edit] Context

[edit] Scope of hostilities

See also: Five Days of Milan

On 18 March 1848, revolt broke out in Milan. The commander of the [[Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia|Lombard–Venetian] army, field marshal Josef Radetzky, had excited the rebellion but did not know how to crush it and was forced to abandon the city of fierce fighting. At the same time many other cities in Lombardy–Venetia and at Como the entire garrison went over to the insurgents.

The day after Radetzky evacuated Milan, the king of Sardinia declared war on Austria and crossed the Ticino. His army was organised in 2 corps, the first entrusted to Eusebio Bava, the second to Ettore Gerbaix di Sonnaz.

[edit] First phase of the campaign

[edit] Liberation of Lombardy

[edit] Forcing the passage of the Mincio

[edit] Advance on Mincio

[edit] Battle of Pastrengo

[edit] Austrian strategic weakness

[edit] Results of Pastrengo

[edit] Radetzky's impasse

[edit] Radetzky penned in at Verona

[edit] The better Sardinian position

[edit] Strategic opportunities arise

[edit] Carlo Alberto's tactical initiative

[edit] The troops draw up for battle

[edit] Battle

[edit] Battle plan

[edit] Advance

[edit] Fighting begins

[edit] Santa Lucia occupied

[edit] Parallel attempt at Croce Bianca

[edit] Refusal to continue the battle

[edit] Losses

[edit] The Austrians make a show of pursuit

[edit] Failure to re-enter

[edit] Minor Austrian counter-attack

[edit] Military content

[edit] Failed uprising in Verona

[edit] Radetzky's boasting

[edit] Results

[edit] Errors in fortification

[edit] A lost opportunity

[edit] Notes


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