Battle of Bassignano

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
Kingdom of France Kingdom of Spain Republic of Genoa	Kingdom of Sardinia, Austria
Commanders and leaders
Marquis of Maillebois Infante Philip Comte de Gages Gian Francesco Brignole Sale II	Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy
Strength
70,000	54,000
Casualties and losses
200 dead, 300 wounded	300 dead, 1,200 wounded or captured

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.

References

• Guicciardini, Francesco (1832). Storia d'Italia continuata da quella del Guicciardini sino al 1789. VIII. Presso Baudry. http://books.google.it/books?id=AUAVAAAAYAAJ&dq=Battaglia+di+Bassignana&source=gbs_navlinks_s. 
• Tivaroni, Carlo (1888). L'Italia prima della rivoluzione francese 1735-1789. L. Roux. http://books.google.it/books?id=YYMpAAAAYAAJ&dq=Battaglia+di+Bassignana+1745&source=gbs_navlinks_s. 

External links

• Success won by Marshal Maiilebois and Don Infante Philip, followed by greater disasters from Voltaire's histories