Combat of Bobbio

Combat of Bobbio
	Part of the Italian campaigns during the war of the Second Coalition
	; Bobbio – view from Monte Penice
Date	21 June 1799
Location	Bobbio, Northern Italy
Result	Russo-Austrian victory
Belligerents
Russia; Austria	France; • Liguria;
Commanders and leaders
Mikhail Veletsky	Jean La Poype
Strength
700; • 1 battalion; • 50 Cossacks; • 80 dragoons;	3,000–3,500 militia; • 2,000; • 1,500;
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Heavy, incl. 100+ captured

The combat of Bobbio occurred on 21 June [O.S. 10 June] 1799 near Bobbio town in the course of the war of the Second Coalition. In the combat Russian regular battalion from the Jung-Baden regiment and Austrian dragoons from the Karaczay regiment (the commanders of the regiments themselves did not participate in action), together with the Russian Cossacks, fought and won under the command of the Russian Major General Mikhail Mikhailovich Veletsky against the mixed Franco-Ligurian militia of the French General Jean François Cornu de La Poype.