Battle of Giornico
| Battle of Giornico | |||||||
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| Part of Transalpine campaigns | |||||||
Luzerner Schilling miniature | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Duchy of Milan | Old Swiss Confederacy | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Thousands | c.600 (from Uri, the Leventina valley, Zurich, Schwyz and Lucerne) | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1,400 | Unknown (possibly 0) | ||||||
In the Battle of Giornico, also known as the battle of large rocks (Italian: Battaglia di Giornico, dei Sassi Grossi; German: Schlacht bei Giornico) (28 December 1478), about 600 Swiss troops ambushed from above and defeated a larger force of the Duchy of Milan, confined in a narrow icy valley, by rolling large boulders down the hillside against the Milanese.