battle, Revolutionary and Napoleonic

First Battle of Marengo

Name: First Battle of Marengo
Location: Q748210, Italy

First Battle of Marengo was a battle fought in 1799 at Q748210, in what is now Italy. The recorded result: Allied victory. Recorded strength: 5,000–8,000 against 11,000–16,500.

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Fought1799

WhereQ748210, Italy44.883N, 8.683E

OutcomeAllied victory

BelligerentsFrench Republic Piedmontese Republic; Helvetic RepublicagainstRussian Empire; Habsburg monarchy

Casualties and losses500 to 1,500and150 to 720

Record

Date	1799 (year precision)
Place	Q748210, Italy 44.883N, 8.683E
Kind	Battle, Revolutionary and Napoleonic
Territorial change	Suvorov's Austro-Russian forces occupy the Piedmontese Republic
Strength	5,000–8,000	11,000–16,500
Casualties and losses	500 to 1,500	150 to 720
Commanders	Jean Victor Marie Moreau Claude-Victor Perrin Gaspard Amédée Gardanne Louis Léonard Antoine de Colli-Ricci	Alexander Suvorov Pyotr Bagration Franz Joseph, Marquis de Lusignan Konrad Valentin von Kaim Anton Ferdinand Mittrowsky

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Marengo 1800, same recorded site
Second Battle of Marengo 1799, same recorded site
Siege of Alessandria 1174, 6.0 km NW
Siege of Alessandria (1657) 1657, 6.0 km NW
Battle of Alessandria 1391, 6.4 km NW

Elsewhere in 1799

First Battle of Marengo 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 Q55611682, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article First Battle of Marengo, revision 1382460072, 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.