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impetuosity, but were checked by the enemv's in
tantry and artillery, which defended the village
General de Luzy Immediately took measures for an
attack While he sent two columns to turn Medoe
the right and left, he advanced on the front him
self, preceded by his artillery, which kent up
fire on the village. This attack, executed with
great vigor, was entirely successful; at seven
O'Clock the enemy retired from Medoe, leaving two
pieces of cannon and good number of prisoners in
our hands.
Vinoy's division, which followed Luzy's, marched
from Medoe in the direction of an isolated house
called Casanova which stands in the plain on the
road to Mantua, about two kilometres from Guidiz-
zolo. The enemy was in considerable force on that
side, and a desperate conflict took place. while
Luzy's division was marching toward Ceresara on
the one hand, and toward Robecco on the other.
AT this moment the enemy attempted to turn the
left OF VinOvs division in the interval left between
the I'd and 4th corps; they came up to within two
hundred metres of the front of troops, but were
there stopped by the fire of forty two pieces of ar
tillery, directed by General SOleille The enemy's
cannon then came and took part in the struggle,
and Kept on for a great part of the day. although
with manifest interority.
Failly's division came up in its turn, and General
Mel, reserving the second brigade of that division
directed the first between Casanova and Robecco
towards the hamlet of Baeta to connect General de
Luzy with General Vinoy. General Mel intention
was to march toward Guidizzolo as as the
Duke de Magenta should have taken Cavriana, and
he hoped by that means to cut off the enemy from
the road to Volta and Goito; but to execute that
plan 1t was necessary for the troops of Marshal
Canrooeris corps to replace at Robecco those of
General de Lucy.
The Sd corps starting from Mezzana at two in
the morning, had passed the Chiese at Viseno and
arrived about seven O'Clock at Caste Goffredo,
small town surrounded by walls, and still occupied
by the enemy's cavalry. While General Jannin
was turning the position to the south, General
Regnaut attacked it in front, sappers to burst
open the gates and entered the town, driving the
enemy's cavalry before him.
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division, having arrived abreast of Medole put its
lett in conjunction with General de Luzv, on the
side OF Ceresara, and its right faced Castel Gof
fredo, to watch the movements of the detached
corps, whose departure from Mautua had been an
nounced.
That apprehension paralyzed, during the greater
part OF the day, the corps d'drmee under Marshal
Canrobert; who did not think it prudent, in the
hrst instance to lend the 4th corps the support de-
manded by General Neil. Nevertheless, about
three o'clock in the afternoon, being reassured as
to his right, and having of himself Judged General
NelPs position, Marshal Canrobert sent Regnaults
DIVISION toward RobeccO, and ordered General
Trochu to carry his first brigade between Casanova
and Baeta, to the point on which the most fOrmid-
able attacks of the enemy were being directed.
The reintorcements of fresh troops permitted Gen.
Neil to send, in the direction of Gudzzolo part of
Lucy and De Failly's divisions. The column ad-
vanced up to the first houses of the village but find
ing before it superior forces established in good
position, was obliged to stop.
tack with Bataie's brigade of his division He
marched on the enemy in close battaliOns en- ecIa-
qhte' the right wing in advance, with as much or
der and calmness as in field of mannuvres He
TOOK from the enemy company of infantry and
two pieces of cannon, and he had arrived half way
from Casanova to GuidizzolO when the storm broke
forth which pnt an end to this terrible confict-a
conflict which the cooperation of the Sd and 4th
corps was threatening to render fatal to the
enemy.
In the midst of the incidents of this combat of
twelve hours duration, the cavalry was of power
tul assistance in checking the efforts of the enemy
on the side OF Casanova. On several occasions
PartonneauXs and DeSvauXs divisions charged the
Austrian infantry and broke its squares But it
was our new artillery which produced the most ter
rible effects the Austrans. Its balls went to dis
tances which their guns Of the largest cabre could
not respond to, and strewed the plain with dead
The 4th corps took from the enemy ! COLOR 7
pieces of cannon and 900 prisoners
On its part, the Pedmontese armv placed on our
extreme left had also had rude and splendid DAVIS
work. 1t advancing in four divisions in The
direction of Peschiera from Pozzolengo and Ma
donna della ScOperta, when, at about seven in the
morning, its advanced guard encountered the enc
my 5 advanced posts between San MARITIME and PoZ-
ZOengO. The combat comm enced, but strong Ans
trlan reinlorcemtnts hurried up and drove the
PiedmOntese further bacl; than San Martino even
threatening 20 cut off their line of retreat A bri-
gade OF Mollards division Il en- arrived in all haste
on the scene of combat, and assaulted the heights
on which the enemy had established themselves
Twice it attained the summit and possessed itself of
several pieces of cannon; but twice also it had to
yield to numbers aid to abandon its conquest
The enemy was gaining ground, in spite of some
brilliant charges of the Kings cavalry when Cue
chiari's division debouching in the field of battle
by the road OF Rvoltella, came to support General
Mollard. The Sardinian troops rushed forward a
third time with impetuostv under murderous
hire; the church and all the works raised on the
right were carried, and eight pieces of cannon were
taken. But the enemy again succeeded in olsen
gaging the cannon and in retaking the posi-
tions.
ari, which had been formed in columns of attack
| to the left of the Luango road, marched against
| the Church of st. MartnO, regained the lost
ground and carried the heights for the fourth time
| without holding them, however; for, overwhelmed
by volleys of grape, and facing an enemy who was
constantly receiving reinfOrcementS and ncessant-
~ returning to the charge, it could not hold out
till the arrival of succnr from Gen Moard's %
brigade, and the Piedmontese, being quite ex-
hausted, retreated in good order along the Rivol-
tella road.
1t wa' then the Asto brigade OF Fanti's division,
which bad at first gone toward Solferino to form
junction with Marshal Baraguav d'Hilliera, was
sent by the King to support Generals Mollard and
Cucchlara in the attack on San Martino That body
was checked for awhile by the storm; but about
five o'clock in the evening this brigade and the Pig
nerol one, supported by a numerous artillery
marched on the enemy under terrible fire and
reached the heights. They took possession of them
foot by foot, and managed to hold them by desper-
ate lighting The enemy began to give way, and
the Piedmontese artillery, gaining the ridge soon
crowned it with "A pieces OF cannon, which the Aus
trians vainlv endeavored to capture two brilliant
charges of the Kings cavalry dispersed them; vol
leys OF grape threw their ranks into confusion and
the Sandman troops finally remained masters of
the formidable positions which the enemy had de-
Tended for whole day with such obstinacy
On the other side, the Durando division had been
engaged with the AustIans ever since five and one
half in the morning. At that hour its advanced
| guard had met the enem at Madonna della SEQ
| perta, and the Sandman troops had held their
| ground until noon against the efforts of an enemy
superior in number, who at last compelled them to
fall back; but being then reinforced by the Savoy
brigade, they resumed the offensive, and repusing
the Austrians in their turn, made themselves mas
ters of the Madonna della ScOperta After this
first success, General della Mormora sent the Du-
randO division against San Martino where it did
not arrive in time to assist in taking that position
for it encountered on the road an Austrian column
with which it had to dispute the passage; and when
this obstacle was overcome, the village of San Mar
tinO was already i'll the power of the Pedmontese
General della Marmora had directed, on the other
hand, the Piedmont brigade of Fanti's division
upon PoZZoengo. This brigade carried the enc.
my's positions in front of the village with great
vigor and, having made itself master of Pozzolen-
go after a warm attack, Tepused the Austrians
and pursued them to a certain distance causing
them severe losses
Those of the Sandman army WERE unfortunately
very cOnSluefaDle anu 40 not amount to lesS than
49 officers killed and l67 wounded, 642 sub-ofcers
and privates killed. 3 400 wounded and l,258 sol
diers missing, making a total 5,525 absent at roll
call. Five pieces of cannon remained in the hands
of the Kings armies as trophies of this sangunary
victory, which it had gained over an enemy supe-
rior in number, and whose force appeared to have
been not less than twelve brigades
The loss of the French army amounted to II 900
rank and file, killed or wounded and 72O officers
hors de combat. of whom $50 were killed. Among
the wounded are generals de Ladmiraut, Forev,
Auger, Dieu and DOuay. Seven colonies and six
Observation-Disclosures have been killed
As to the losses of the Austrian armv they cam
not be yet calculated but they must have been
very considerable, from the number of killed and
wounded which were left on the field of battle
which extended not less than twelve miles in length
They left in our hands thirty pieces of cannon a
great number of ammunition wagons, four coors,
and 5000 prisoners.
The resistance which the enemy opposed to the
allied troops for sixteen hours be explained by
the superiority in numbers which they possessed,
and the almost impregnable positions which they
occupied.
For the first time, also, the Austrian troops fought
under the eyes of their sovereign and the presence
of the two Emperors and of the King of Piedmont.
in rendering the struggles more desperate, made
also more decisive
The Emperor Napoleon never for moment ceas-
ed to direct the operations, visiting every point
where his troops had to make the greatest efforts
and to triumph over the most serious difficulties
in the ranks of the staff and of the escort who at
tended his Majesty.
At nine O'Clock in the evening the noise of the
cannon which preeipitaed the retreat of the enemy
was still heard i'll the distance, and the French
troops lighted their bivOuac fires on the field of