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| | Maida, Battle of - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Maida, Battle of |
 | | In the Napoleonic Wars, defeat of about 6,500 French under Marshal Jean Reynier by a 5,000-strong British force under General Sir John Stuart, on 3 July 1806, near Maida in the toe of Italy, about 20 km/12 mi west of Catanzaro. |
 | | The battle took place in one of the backwaters of the Napoleonic Wars, while a British force was in Italy supporting the dispossessed royal families of Spain and Sicily and attempting to break the French military control of the Kingdom of Sicily. |
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