Battle of the Mincio River (1814)

Battle of the Mincio River
Part of the War of the Sixth Coalition
Field Marshal Heinrich von Bellegarde and his staff at the battle of the Mincio River, by Albrecht Adam.
Date 8 February 1814[1] Location Mincio River, Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) present-day Italy 45°04′16″N 10°58′55″E / 45.07111°N 10.98194°E / 45.07111; 10.98194 (Mincio mouth) Result Italian–French victory[2]
Belligerents
First French Empire Kingdom of Italy	Austrian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Eugène de Beauharnais	Heinrich von Bellegarde
Strength
34,000[1]	32,000[1]–35,000
Casualties and losses
3,500[1] dead, wounded, and captured 3,000 dead or wounded 500 captured	4,000[1] dead, wounded, and captured 2,800 dead or wounded 1,200 captured

200km
125miles

Mincio

Caldiero

2

Feistritz

1

  

War of the Sixth Coalition: Italian campaign, 1813–1814

In the War of the Sixth Coalition, the Battle of the Mincio River was fought on 8 February 1814 and resulted in an inconclusive engagement between the French under Eugène de Beauharnais and the Austrians under Field Marshal Heinrich von Bellegarde. Fought on the same ground as Napoleon's victory at the Battle of Borghetto in 1796, the battle was not as decisive as Eugène hoped, and in the end it had little significant impact upon the war, whose outcome was to be decided in France rather than Italy.