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	Battle of Casalecchio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Casalecchio took place on June 26, 1402 near the town of Casalecchio di Reno, near Bologna.
		At this battle, a Bolognese army under Giovanni I Bentivoglio opposed Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan, and his allies, the Malatesta of Rimini and the Gonzaga of Mantua.
		Chiavello Chiavelli, lord of Fabriano, was present at the battle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Casalecchio (218 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mantua
		In the eleventh century Mantua was under the Counts of Canossa, and became involved in the wars between the popes and the empire; in 1091 Henry IV took possession of the city, after a siege of seven months.
		In 1735, Carlo Emanuele of Savoy besieged Mantua unsuccessfully.
		A synod was held at Mantua in 827, to settle a controversy between the metropolitan bishops of Aquileia and of Grado, one in 1053 for disciplinary reform, another in 1064, in relation to the controversy between Alexander II and the antipope Honorius II.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09611b.htm (1371 words)

	Battle of the Bridge of Arcole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of the Bridge of Arcole (Bataille du Pont d'Arcole in French), occurred between November 15 and November 17, 1796.
		The battle was the culmination of a manoeuver game between the 19 000 man strong French army led by general Napoleon Bonaparte, and the 24 000 man strong Austrian army, led by general Alvinczy.
		A three-day battle of attrition in the marshy confluence of the Rivers Alpone and Adige resulted in victory for the French, and continued the siege of Mantua into the following February, which ultimately kept the Austrians out of northern Italy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Bridge_of_Arcole (270 words)

	Travel \| Battle of the bulge
		After one long weekend spent in Mantua, I would have been afraid to strip off and sunbathe on a beach, lest I be struck on the head with a bottle of champagne and officially launched by Romano Prodi.
		But Mantua is a town built small and neat, a modest, commodious little place, nestling around four squares and tucked into a space between two lakes, named, with a minimalist approach to adjectival language quite startlingly un-Italian, Lago Superiore and Lago Inferiore.
		T he most fun room in the palace depicts the mythical battle between the giants and the Greek gods, which was won by the gods in a penalty shoot-out.
	travel.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3908325-104896,00.html (1821 words)

	Monday Night at the Napoleonic Wars
		Battle of Mantua: John of Austria¹s I CAV & II Corps (38,000 infantry & 6,000 cavalry) versus Massena's Light Infantry and III Corps (38,000 infantry & 6,000 cavalry).
		Battle of Benghazi: The British I Corps and I CAV landed at Benghazi and assaulted the Cyrenaican army, pitting 24,000 Britons against 16,000 Arabs.
		Battle of Amsterdam: The French V Corps and Prussian I Corps came to the relief of the Dutch with 46,000 men, forcing Castanos' I, III, and Cavalry Corps to battle with 72,000 troops against 50,000.
	www.cws.org /~bigfire/eia/eia.html (3829 words)

	Batailles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Battle of Mühlberg (Germany) in 1547: Imperial victory against the protestant princes.
		The battles of St Quentin and Gravelines, recognised the end of the French dream in Italy and the impossibility for the Spanish King to recover the Duchy of Burgundy, the peace was signed in Cateau Cambresis in 1559.
		Battle of Nordlingen (Germany) in 1634: Victory of the Catholics against the main Swedish/Protestant army.
	www.geocities.com /ao1617/Battle.html (5853 words)

	Mantua : Sieges of Mantua : Napoleonic Wars : Bonaparte : Italy
		The Austrian fortress at Mantua was of vital strategic importance to both sides during the 1796-1797 campaigns in Northern Italy.
		Relief columns were sent by Vienna and the imminent arrival of General Dagobert Wurmser forced Napoleon Bonaparte to abandon the operation - and in the process spike his artillery - and move to deal with the threat.
		The battles of Lonato and Castiglione followed and while the Austrians were sent reeling from the defeats, they were able to get supplies and 6000 reinforcements into Mantua.
	www.napoleonguide.com /battle_mantua.htm (259 words)

	CHAPTER III. - ITALIAN CAMPAIGNS: TREATY OF CAMPO FORMIO.
		The battle was so disastrous to the Austrians that they could risk no second engagement, and retired upon Mantua and the line of the Mincio.
		A battle was fought and lost by the Austrians half-way between the lake and the fortress.
		Mantua still held out, and in November the relieving operations of the Austrians were renewed.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Europe/00000014.htm (7957 words)

	RELATION OF THE BATTLE OF MARENGO, FOUGHT 14 JUNE 1800. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The battles of Lonato and Castiglione crowned these great and bold plans and defeated Wurmser, in spite of his numerous cavalry and his immense strength in artillery, and went into the passes of the Tyrol, leaving in the hands of the French people a large part of his army.
		The battle of Pyramids, near Cairo, that of Mont-Tabor, in the siege in Syria, and that of Aboukir, are all three of a different conception; he made no mistake, and knew how to apply to circumstances so new as varied all the facets of the art of the war.
		In the middle of these complicated maneuvers, and in the heat of a battle so obstinately fought, it became difficult to grasp the accounts of the rapidly changing dispositions; but confidence in the victory was always complete in the mind of the leader who directed them, although the Austrians thought themselves to have it.
	www.simmonsgames.com /research/authors/Berthier/RelationMarengo/TextEnglish.html (5211 words)

	World History 1600- 1625 AD
		Japanese General Ieysasu is victorious in the Battle of Sekigahara against the other regents of the son of late Japanese leader Oyotomi Hideyoshi.
		At the battle of Khotin the Ottoman troops, led by Osman II, were defeated by Polish troops of Sigismund III.
		The battle took place on the Dneister River which was on the border between Poland and the Ottoman vassal state of Moldovia.
	www.multied.com /dates/1600ad.html (900 words)

	Mantua PTA
		Mantua Principal Jan-Marie Fernandez will be honored for her nomination for FCPS Principal of the Year at the School Board Meeting on December 15.
		Mantua's Jay McClain, Cameron's father, is the Principal of Haycock Elementary.
		Mantua was honored with a visit from Governor Mark Warner on June 16.
	www.mantuapta.org (5459 words)

	Bigi's casts.
		The Battle of Austerlitz is one of those events which eminently belong to history because they can decide the establishment of one empire and the destruction of another.
		This battle took place on 20 frimaire (2 December); it is the last where the republican calendar was used; this calendar had been created by a decree of the Convention on 5 October 1793 and was abolished by the senatus consultum of 9 September 1805, effective on 1 January 1806.
		After the Battle of Jena the governors of four fortresses, of which the inscription recites the names, were seized by a panic terror and surrendered almost without resistance.
	fortiter.napoleonicmedals.org /books/bigi.htm (4209 words)

	Napoleonic Society of Georgia
		On 12 April the first battle of the Napoleonic era was fought and won by Masséna at Montenotte with the capture of 2,000 prisoners and 5 guns.
		On 3 May, Masséna was engaged in the bloody battle of Ebersberg, where one of his aides-de-camp, Pelet, was badly wounded in the arm while racing across the bridge over the Traun River.
		Napoleon met Masséna in the midst of the battle, instructing him to march his corps parallel to the Austrians as quickly as possible--an extremely dangerous maneuver--and repulse their flanking attack.
	members.tripod.com /amik78/Massena.html (10961 words)

	Napoleon
		He gains the battle; he makes the code; (13) he makes the system of weights and measures; (14) he levels the Alps; (15) he builds the road.
		But though there is in particulars this identity between Napoleon and the mass of the people, his real strength lay in their conviction that he was their representative in his genius and aims, not only when he courted, but when he controlled, and even when he decimated them by his conscriptions.
		I admire his simple, clear narrative of his battles;- good as Caesar's; his good-natured and sufficiently respectful account of Marshal Wurmser (148) and his other antagonists; and his own equality as a writer to his varying subject.
	www.napoleon.org /en/reading_room/articles/files/emerson_napoleon.asp (12383 words)

	The Official Website of New Jersey City University Gothic Knight Athletics
		SAMAR BATTLE (East Orange, NJ/Clifford Scott) has been named as the NJAC Player of the Week for the second time this season, the league office announced this afternoon for week 14 of the 2003-04 season.
		Battle was spectacular, averaging 26.0 points, 9.5 rebounds, 2.5 steals, 2.0 blocks, and 2.0 assists per game while shooting 53.8 percent from the field and 44.4 percent from three-point territory.
		Battle scored that career-high 37, including 27 in the first half alone, and set a school record for three-pointers in a game.
	www.njcu.edu /athletics/MBASKETBALL/MBBrel022304.html (715 words)

	Castiglione : 5 August 1796 - Action Report
		The second battle of Castiglione (Solferino) was fought on 5 August 1796, between the forces of Bonaparte with 24,000 infantry and 2,400 cavalry and Wurmser with 14,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry.
		Wurmser holding a strong position was trying to stop the French from advancing to Mantua and buy time to replenish their exhausted supplies.
		Bonaparte could now see that the battle was going well and he ordered Augereau and Masséna to commit all of their troops to the attack.
	www.napoleonicminiatureswargame.com /castiglione0805.html (1010 words)

	The Mantua-Shalersville Fire Department
		The Mantua Village Fire Department was established on May 20, 1901 by Village Council Ordinance.
		Prior to 1901, a civilian Bucket Brigade was used to battle the fires that occurred in Mantua Village, which was known as "Mantua Station" prior to its incorporation in 1898.
		In 1946, the Mantua-Shalersville Fire Association was formed when Mantua Village, Mantua Township, and Shalersville Township entered into a formal contract to share all the cost in operating the joint Fire Department.
	mantuashalersvillefire.com (1084 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia â“ Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
		Although the battle resulted in no clear decision, the Austrians withdrew to their strategic fortresses.
		Napoleon III, shocked by the huge losses and aware of the difficulties of continuing the war, soon afterward met Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria at Villafranca di Verona, where a preliminary peace was arranged.
		By a coincidence, J. Henry Dunant, the Swiss philanthropist, was present at the battle, which he described in Un Souvenir de Solférino.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:solferin (131 words)

	Hauptman Tristan Wagner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The battle was fought mostly with heavy cannon and arquebusiers, not pikes.
		It was a bloody battle stemmed with hatred.
		The Battle of Pavia was a victory for the Imperial troops of the Emperor.
	www.st-max.org /Tristan.htm (1466 words)

	Chapter 9
		During a battle, the commander in chief had to know how to concentrate without being distracted by the perils to which he was constantly exposed.
		Massena occupied Verona and Augereau Legnano; Serrurier was blockading Mantua.
		I arrived in Mantua on the morning of the 16th, with four regiments, while Provera’s advance guard was already attacking Saint George, defended by the demi-brigade of brave General Miollis.
	www.napoleonicsociety.com /english/Life_Nap_Chap9.htm (1739 words)

	Piccaetto Historicon 98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		But according to the Bard of Battles, these light horse ‘played as a children’s game of tag’ across the rise, first one occupying it, then the other, neither side holding the gentle slope for very long.
		The Bard of Battles records "as witnessed they the glint of steel ahead from morion and arquebus, behind solid walls, with fire and death around them, so did they recant of their hearts, and find naught within".
		Within eleven days of the battle, Venice signed a treaty with Spain, agreeing to support her on land and sea.
	www.piquet.org /BattleReports/11.htm (5602 words)

	Napoleonic Medals ii.
		The Battle of Montenotte began the separation of the two enemy armies which was completed by the Battle of Dego.
		Another medal commemorated the capture of Mantua, a subject already dealt with earlier, but this one celebrates Vergil, because that famous Latin poet was from Mantua.
		The Battle of the Pyramids, fought at Embabah near Cairo (21 July), defeated the Mamelukes and sent Murad Bey fleeing to upper Egypt and Abrahim Bey toward Syria.
	fortiter.napoleonicmedals.org /medals/history/egypt.htm (2335 words)

	3.5 The French Revolution
		He defeated Austria in the Battle of Arkola and Rivoli.
		Napoleon conquered Malta and Alexandria and defeated the Darvaish race in the Battle of Pyramids.
		The English General, Nelson, defeated Napoleon in the battle of the Nile.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /studyguides/subjects/euro_his/chap3/e0303503.htm (204 words)

	Philip Kearny and the Battle of Solferino
		June 24, 1999 marks the 140th anniversary of the Battle of Solferino—the most decisive battle of the Italian Campaign in the Franco-Austrian War which would unify Italy, set the stage for modern warfare, and result in the formation of the International Red Cross.
		In the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino, a total of 40,000 French, Austrian, Italian casualties littered the countryside.
		From the horrors of this battle the International Red Cross would be born, founded in 1864 by Swiss businessman (Jean) Henri Dunant, eyewitness to the slaughter.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/6732/files/kearny_solferino.html (753 words)

	Chronology of Napoleon's Life
		Battle of Montenotte, 12th April; Millesimo, 13th April; Dego, 14th and 15th April; Mondovi, 21st April; Armistice of Cherasco with Sardinians, 28th April; Battle of Lodi, 9th May; Austrians beaten out of Lombardy and Mantua besieged.
		Nov--Third attempt of Austrians to relieve Mantua; battles of Caldiero, 11th November, and Arcola, 15th, 16th, and 17th November; Alvinzi driven off.
		Battle of Saalfeld, 10th October; battles of Jena and of Auerstadt, 14th October; Berlin occupied, 25th October.
	www.napoleonic-literature.com /Chronology.html (2135 words)

	The Battle of Fornovo 1495
		It was here that he proclaimed his peaceful intentions to the rest of Italy, it is true that he had left the Florentine government intact, and stated that his plan was to reclaim his rightful position in Naples to use it as a base for his crusade against the Turk.
		In January 1495 the French invaded Naples, there were a couple of sieges and massacres, a pitched battle in February easily won by the French, and on 22 February Charles VIII entered Naples.
		The League engaged a veteran Condotorrieri, Francesco Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua to gather an army and expel the French from Italy.
	motor1.physics.wayne.edu /~cinabro/other/fornovo.html (2264 words)

	HMS Victory Sailing Ship Model
		The Battle of Trafalgar was the final and decisive blow in a long campaign by Britain to thwart a major threat of invasion by France.
		Every one of the thirty-three British ships returned from the battle, out of the forty enemy vessels during the battle, nineteen were taken as prizes, of which only four were saved.
		The largest single artifact that remains from the Battle of Trafalgar is HMS Victory's Fore Topsail, which measures 54 feet high by 54 feet wide at the top and 80 feet wide at its base, the sail covers an area of around 3,620 square feet.
	www.totalnavy.com /hmsvictory.htm (295 words)

	SparkNotes: Italian Renaissance (1330-1550): Women in the Renaissance
		In 1490 she was married to Francesco Gonzaga, the duke of Mantua, and the pair shared a happy and loving relationship.
		Isabella exerted a great amount of influence over the Mantua court, and it was due in great part to her presence that Mantua became known as a major center of wit, elegance, and artistic genius.
		After her husband, the duke, was captured in battle, she ruled Mantua herself.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/european/renaissance1/section9.rhtml (1154 words)

	Cuba's Freedom Fighter, Antonio Maceo 1845- 1896
		In the battle of Indiana, key village to the entrance of the Valley of Guantanamo, Antonio Maceo led the pitiless fight.
		On March 15th he led his men after the battle of Neptune, which resulted in losses to his men, to the nearby municipality of Artemisa where a hospital was established to take care of the wounded.
		After the battle he read a directive to the assembled men to the effect that any soldier who saw an officer turn his back in battle was authorized to shoot the coward.
	www.christusrex.org /www2/fcf/antonio.maceo.ff.html (14604 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		By October 1503 Leonardo had secured the most prestigious public commission of his artistic career, the mural of the Battle of Anghiari in the Sala del Gran Consiglio (Great Council Hall) of the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence, where Michelangelo was to paint a pendant fresco of the Battle of Cascina.
		On view is a significant group of drawings by Leonardo for the Battle of Anghiari, including the famous monumental copy after the main episode of the Fight for the Standard that was reworked by Peter Paul Rubens (cat.
		The large-scale studies for the Battle of Anghiari, Leda and the Swan, Hercules, and Neptune and Seahorses on view in this gallery demonstrate the grandeur of expression of Leonardo's mature figural vocabulary.
	www.metmuseum.org /special/Leonardo_Master_Draftsman/tour_gallery5.htm (336 words)

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