On 18 March 1848, the Milanese rebelled against Austrian rule, during the so-called Five Days "(Italian: Le Cinque Giornate"). The Austrians were forced to withdraw from Milan whilst the insurgents sought military aid from The Kingdom of Sardinia. Austrians forces led by Field Marshall Joseph Radetzky regathered and defeated Sardinian forces at the first Battle of Custoza and again, at the Battle of Novara. Albrecht Adam painted a series of commissioned paintings that depicted the events including a rather flattering canvass showing Radetsky on a white horse ("id est" Napoleon) with his general staff before the fall of Milan.