Battle of San Fermo

When

27 May 1859

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

45.81° N, 9.05° E

Description

1859 battle

Battle during the Second Italian War of Independence (1859)

The Battle of San Fermo, which took place the 27 May 1859 at a pass near Como in the northern part of Lombardy, was an engagement of the Second Italian War of Independence in which the Italian volunteers of Giuseppe Garibaldi's Hunters of the Alps defeated an Austrian force, forcing the Austrians to abandon Como.

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• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Auch in der Schlacht von San Fermo besiegt Garibaldi die Truppen Urbans”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victoire sarde à la bataille de San Fermo”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• Italian Unification29 Apr 1859 · Interstate war · Deaths 22,500