Battle of Veillane
Battle of Veillane | |||||||
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Part of War of the Mantuan Succession | |||||||
![]() The Battle of Avigliana by Jacques Callot | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Henri II de Montmorency | Carlo Doria | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
10,000 to 12,000 | 18,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
400 killed and wounded | 1,000 killed and wounded |
The Battle of Veillane (or the Battle of Avigliana) was fought on 10 July 1630 between a French army under the command of
Prelude
During the
Battle
The French commander, General Montmorency, led the royal gendarmes in a charge across a ditch, capturing Doria with his own hand and reportedly fighting like a common soldier until the Spanish withdrawal from the field.[4] The French inflicted about 700 on the enemy and captured 600.[2]
Aftermath
Although this victory did not prevent Savoy and its allies from capturing Mantua a week later,[2] the French victory was followed by the raising of the siege of Casal and the taking of Saluzzo. For his achievements during the Piedmont Campaign Montmorency was appointed a Marshal of France later the same year.[4][5]
The outcome of the Piedmont Campaign reversed earlier French strategic losses and the
Notes
- ^ "On 10 July 1630, in the Piedmont campaign, he won the crucial victory of Veillane" (Burckhardt 1970, p. 73).
- ^ a b c d Jaques 2007, p. 85.
- ^ a b Tucker 2009, p. 579.
- ^ a b Traill 1858, p. 520.
- ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 787.
References
- Burckhardt, Carl Jacob (1970). Richelieu and His Age: Power politics and the cardinal's death. Vol. 2. Allen & Unwin. p. 73.
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 787.
- Jaques, Tony (2007), Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A-E, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity Through the Twenty-first Century, vol. 1, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 85, ISBN 978-0-313-33537-2
- Tucker, Spencer (2009), A global chronology of conflict: from the ancient world to the modern Middle East, vol. 2 (illustrated ed.), ABC-CLIO, pp. 579, 587, ISBN 978-1-85109-667-1
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Traill, Thomas Stewart, ed. (1858). "Montmorency, Henri II". Encyclopædia Britannica: or, Dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature. Vol. 15 (8 ed.). A. and C. Black. p. 520.