battle, Revolutionary and Napoleonic

Capture of Bergamo

Name: Capture of Bergamo
Location: Bergamo, Italy

Capture of Bergamo was a battle fought in 1799 at Bergamo, in what is now Italy. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Bergamo. It was part of Q122890272. The recorded result: Russian victory.

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Fought1799

WhereBergamo, Italy45.695N, 9.670E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeRussian victory

BelligerentsRussian EmpireagainstFrench First Republic

Casualties and lossesUnknownandUp to 130 men captured; 1 standard captured; 19 cannons captured

Part ofQ122890272

Record

Date	1799 (year precision)
Place	Bergamo, Italy 45.695N, 9.670E
Kind	Battle, Revolutionary and Napoleonic
Casualties and losses	Unknown	Up to 130 men captured; 1 standard captured; 19 cannons captured
Commanders	Pyotr Bagration Adrian Karpovich Denisov	Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer

Placed at Bergamo; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Siege of Bergame 1437, same recorded site
Battle of Ponte San Pietro 1315, 6.9 km W
Battle of Pons Aureoli AD 268, 16 km SW
Battle of Vaprio d'Adda 1324, 17 km SW
Battle of Cortenuova 1237, 20 km SE

In the same war

After: Battle of Devil's Bridge 25 September 1799

Elsewhere in 1799

Capture of Bergamo is one of 2,009 engagements of the 18th century in the atlas and one of 942 in present-day Italy.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q131126869, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Capture of Bergamo, revision 1370608353, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.