Battle of San Fermo

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Battle of San Fermo
Part of the Second Italian War of Independence
Date27 May 1859
Location
San Fermo, near Como, Lombardy
Result Sardinian victory
Belligerents
Sardinia Austrian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Carlo De Cristoforis †
Angelo Trezzini		 Karl von Urban
Strength
3,000 6,400
Casualties and losses
14 killed
60 wounded		 68 killed
264 wounded

The Battle of San Fermo, which took place the 27 May 1859 at a pass near Como in the northern part of Lombardy, was an engagement of the Second Italian War of Independence in which the Italian volunteers of Giuseppe Garibaldi's Hunters of the Alps defeated an Austrian force, forcing the Austrians to abandon Como.

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