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Brigade was checked by Brigade Gyulai of the Second Corps which was in the process of linking up with the First Corps. Aosta Brigade pressured Brigade Wohlgemuth to withdraw. Brigade Benedek retired too when it was attacked by Neapolitan reinforcements. With darkness approaching at 19:00, both sides withdrew to their initial positions. Around this time, the King of Sardinia received the message about the Austrian surrender of Peschiera, ending the battle with the Italians in general jubilation.
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Intense rainfall prevented all combat operations during the next day. Informed about the surrender of
Peschiera and unable to overcome the Piedmontese army, field marshal Radetzky withdrew his forces on 2 June 1848. The Piedmontese lost 46 killed, 260 wounded and 55 missing in action at the battle of
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Brigade Benedek remained pinned before Goito, Brigades Wohlgemuth and Strassoldo advanced on his left, brushing aside the feeble opposition (which even fired on its own troops). To stem the Austrian progress, General Bava sent forward the Guards Brigade (on the right) and Aosta Brigade (on the
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Unable to dislodge the Papal forces at
Vicenza, field marshal Radetzky decided to concentrate his forces against the Piedmontese army. On 28 May 1848, he marched his army towards Mantua where a Tuscan Division was warily observing the fortress. While the Piedmontese army's attention was diverted by
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The battle was a tactical draw, neither side managing to overcome the other; however, the
Piedmontese army had fought defensively and had retained control of the field of battle, and prevented field marshal Radetzky from relieving Peschiera, therefore the battle is to be considered as an Italian
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leading First Corps advanced from Sacca towards Goito, coming under artillery fire from the
Italian guns on the Somenzari heights at 15:30. The Austrians deployed their own artillery (12 guns and 3 rocket tubes) but were unable to break the Italian artillery superiority. Charles Albert, King of
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From Mantua, Radetzky sent his First and
Reserve Corps towards Goito, while his Second Corps and the cavalry were ordered to reconnoiter towards Ceresara. The Piedmontese forces were deployed in two lines. The first line stretched from the banks of the Mincio at Goito westwards. The second line
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on 29 May 1848. Many of the defeated and disillusioned Tuscan volunteers returned home, marking the end of the Tuscan division as a fighting force. Both the
Piedmontese and the Austrian armies were now concentrated on the Mincio side of the Quadrilatero: the Piedmontese south of Peschiera, the
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Piedmontese army started to blockade the fortress of Peschiera, garrisoned by ca. 1,700 Austrian troops. Until the siege train arrived, the lack of siege guns hampered the effectiveness of the bombardment. Out of food after 34 days of blockade and 16 days under siege, the
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victory. It lulled however the
Piedmontese command into a sense of complacency, which, coupled with the lack of a clear strategical plan, would eventually allow Radetzky to overcome this failure, resume the offensive (proving this in the
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at Goito during an engagement on 9 April 1848. The Austrians tried but failed to destroy the Goito bridge. Once across the Mincio, the Piedmontese forces fanned out towards the north and south.
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on 6 May 1848 where the Piedmontese army failed to defeat the Austrians. With a bloody nose, the Piedmontese army retired to the Mincio.
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an Austrian brigade on the Rivoli plateau on 28 and 29 May 1848, field marshal Radetzky engaged and defeated the Tuscan division at the
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Sardinia, displayed personal bravery by exposing himself to the enemy artillery fire, gaining a scratch wound in the process.
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occupied heights above Goito. At around 14:00 on 30 May 1848, the cavalry vedettes of both sides established contact. Brigade
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against the Papal forces on 10 June 1848) and eventually deal a decisive defeat to the Sardinian Army at the
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Austrians in control of Mantua. Radetzky sent his troops north to relieve Peschiera.
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Goito. Austrian casualties were 2 officers and 65 men killed, general
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157:Commanders and leaders
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452:Republic of San Marco
234:including 21 officers
211:Casualties and losses
172:Karl of Schwarzenberg
99:45.24694°N 10.67472°E
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228:including 2 Officers
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638:Buchdruckerey 1848
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178:Carl Mecséry
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337:Santa Lucia
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305:Castelnuovo
231:331 wounded
219:260 wounded
204:950 cavalry
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58:30 May 1848
785:Categories
598:References
555:The battle
495:Background
470:Battle of
221:55 missing
90:10°40′29″E
87:45°14′49″N
751:855969679
614:Kunz 1890
509:Peschiera
489:Peschiera
332:Pastrengo
320:Peschiera
225:68 killed
217:46 killed
119:Sardinian
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481:Austrian
479:and the
423:Velletri
381:Trentino
190:Strength
141:Sardinia
63:Location
708:Sources
581:Outcome
562:Benedek
521:Legnago
418:Tuscany
413:Brescia
401:Mortara
375:Custoza
369:Vicenza
342:Cornuda
206:33 guns
199:43 guns
182:†
151:Austria
121:victory
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517:Verona
513:Mantua
407:Novara
396:Mestre
315:Osoppo
115:Result
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353:Goito
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294:Milan
77:Italy
68:Goito
747:OCLC
737:ISBN
519:and
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428:Rome
176:OLt.
55:Date
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