Battle of Bosco Marengo

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Battle of Bosco Marengo
Part of the Wars in Lombardy and the Milanese War of Succession
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Bartolomeo Colleoni in armor [1]
DateOctober 11, 1447 [2]
Location
Result Ambrosian victory [1] [3] [4]
Belligerents
Flag of the Golden Ambrosian Republic.svg Golden Ambrosian Republic Blason Charles II d'Angouleme (1522-1545).svg Duchy of Orléans
Commanders and leaders
Bartolomeo Colleoni
Astorre II Manfredi
[1] [5] [6] [7]
Renaud du Dresnay (P)
[1] [3] [5] [8]
Strength
3,700 troops [6] 3,000 troops [5] [9]
Casualties and losses
500 killed [10] [6] [11] 1,500 killed [10] [8] [11]
only half could retreat back to France [9]
300 captured [10] [11]

The Battle of Bosco Marengo (aka Battle of Frascata) [3] was fought in the autumn of 1447.

The Duke of Orleans, Charles I, son of Valentina Visconti, laid claim to the Duchy of Milan [10] and dispatched an army from the Dauphiné and Lyonais under Renaud du Dresnay into Lombardy. [5] The Golden Ambrosian Republic responded and dispatched a total of 3,700 troops under Colleoni to Alessandria. [6] At Bosco Marengo, battle was joined and the French suffered a complete defeat [12] with their general Renaud du Dresnay being captured and later ransomed for 14,000 'couronnes'. [13]

Sources

  1. 1 2 3 4 Beck, Jakob Christoph (1742). Neu-vermehrtes Historisch- und Geographisches Allgemeines Lexicon. Basel.
  2. Simonde de Sismondi, Jean-Charles-Léonard (1831). Histoire des Français: Vol.13. Paris.
  3. 1 2 3 Moreri, Louis (1759). Le grand dictionnaire historique, ou Le mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane: Vol.3 (PDF). Paris.
  4. Samaran, Charles (1919). Dépêches des ambassadeurs milanais en France sous Louis XI et François Sforza: Vol.2. Paris.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. 1 2 3 4 Ersch, Johann Samuel (1834). Allgemeine Encyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste. Leipzig.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Corio, Bernardino (1646). L'historia di Milano. Padua.
  7. Leo, Heinrich (1829). Geschichte von Italien: Vol.III. Hamburg.
  8. 1 2 Protonotari, Francisco (1923). Nuova antologia: Vol.308-309. Rome.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. 1 2 Société d'histoire générale et d'histoire diplomatique (1888). Revue d'histoire diplomatique: Vol.2. Paris.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. 1 2 3 4 Rogers, Clifford (2010). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology: Vol.1. Oxford University Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  11. 1 2 3 Pieri, Piero (1971). Il Rinascimento e la crisi militare italiana. Turin.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  12. Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (1856). Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften: Vol.20. Vienna.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. Courcelles, Jean B. (1829). Histoire généalogique et héraldique des pairs de France: Vol.10. Paris.

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