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((Infobox military conflict
| conflict          = Second Battle of Dego
| partof            = the [[Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars|Italian campaigns]] in the [[War of the First Coalition]]
| campaign          = 
| image             = File:Dego 1796.jpg
| caption           = The second battle of Dego
| date              = 14–15 April 1796
| place             = [[Dego, Liguria|Dego]], present-day [[Italy]]
| coordinates       = ((coord|44.4500|N|8.3167|E|source:wikidata))
| result            = French victory
| combatant1        = ((flagicon|French First Republic)) [[French First Republic|French Republic]]
| combatant2        = ((flagicon|Habsburg Monarchy)) [[Habsburg monarchy]]<br>((flagicon|Kingdom of Sardinia|1785)) [[Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861)|Kingdom of Sardinia]]
| commander1        = ((plainlist|
*((flagicon|French First Republic)) [[Napoleon|Napoleon Bonaparte]]
*((flagicon|French First Republic))[[Jean Lannes]]
*((flagicon|French First Republic)) [[André Masséna]]
))
| commander2        = ((plainlist|
*((flagicon|Habsburg Monarchy)) [[Eugène-Guillaume Argenteau|Eugène Argenteau]]
*((flagicon|Habsburg Monarchy)) [[Josef Philipp Vukassovich|Josef Vukassovich]]
))
| strength1         = 14 April: 12,000<ref>Smith, p 112. All strengths are from Smith.</ref><br>15 April: 15,000
| strength2         = 14 April: 5,700<br>15 April: 3,500
| casualties1       = 14 April: 1,500 casualties<ref>Smith, p 112. All losses are from Smith.</ref><br>15 April: 938 casualties
| casualties2       = 14 April: 3,000 casualties<br>15 April: 1,757 casualties
| map_type          = Italy North#Europe
| map_relief        = 1
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((Campaignbox Montenotte Campaign))
((Campaignbox First Coalition))
((Campaignbox French Revolutionary Wars in Italy))

The '''Second Battle of Dego''' was fought on 14  and 15 April 1796 during the [[French Revolutionary Wars]] between French forces and Austro-Sardinian forces. The battle was fought near [[Dego, Liguria|Dego]], a hamlet in northwestern [[Italy]], and ended in a French victory.

==Background==
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After successfully defeating the Austrian right wing at the [[Battle of Montenotte]], [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] continued with his plan to separate the Austrian army of General [[Johann Peter Beaulieu|Johann Beaulieu]] from the army of the [[Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia]] led by General [[Michelangelo Alessandro Colli-Marchi|Michelangelo Colli]]. By taking the defences at Dego, the French would control the only road by which the two armies could link with each other. The town's defences comprised both a castle on a bluff and earthworks on rising ground, and were held by a small mixed force, consisting of units of both the Austrian and Piedmont-Sardinian armies.

==Forces==
[[Army of Italy (France)|Army of Italy]]: [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] (15,000)<ref>Smith, p 112. Order of Battle from Smith.</ref>
* Attached to army command:
** Cavalry Division: [[Henri Christian Michel de Stengel|Henri Stengel]]
*** Regiments: 5th [[Dragoons]], 22nd Horse [[Chasseurs]]
* Corps: [[André Masséna]]
** Division: [[Amedee Emmanuel Francois Laharpe|Amédée Laharpe]]
*** Brigadiers: Jean Pijon, Jean Ménard, [[Jean-Baptiste Cervoni|Jean Cervoni]]
*** Demi-brigades: 1st Light, 14th, 21st, 69th, 70th and 99th Line
** Division: Jean Meynier
*** Brigadiers: [[Elzéar Auguste Cousin de Dommartin|Elzéard Dommartin]], [[Barthélemy Catherine Joubert|Barthélemy Joubert]] (not present)
*** Demi-brigades: 45th, 46th, 84th and 100th Line
Austrian Forces
* Part of Right Wing: [[Eugène-Guillaume Argenteau|Eugène Argenteau]] (5,700)
** Austrian Regiments, 1 bn each: Stain IR # 50, Pellegrini IR # 49, Schröder IR # 26, [[Jozsef Alvinczi|Alvinczi]] # 19, Terzi IR # 16, Nádasdy IR # 39, [[Grand Masters of the Teutonic Knights|Deutschmeister]] IR # 4
** Austrian Regiments: Preiss IR # 24 (3 bns), [[Archduke Anton Victor of Austria|Archduke Anton]] IR # 52 (2 bns)
** Sardinian Regiments: La Marina IR (2 bns), Montferrat IR (1 bn)
* Brigade: [[Josef Philipp Vukassovich|Josef Vukassovich]] (3,500)
** Regiments: Carlstadt Grenz IR (2 bns), Alvinczi IR # 19, Nádasdy IR # 39, Preiss IR # 24 (all 1 bn)

;Key
* Line = Line Infantry
* Light = Light Infantry
* IR = Infantry Regiment
* bn = infantry battalion

==Battle==
[[Image:Montenotte Campaign 14 April 1796.JPG|right|thumb]]
On 14 April, [[André Masséna]], leading [[Amedee Emmanuel Francois Laharpe|Amédée Laharpe]]'s [[Division (military)|division]] and one brigade of [[Jean-Baptiste Meynier]]'s division attacked the town. The French overran the defences, losing about 1,500 killed and wounded. The Austrians suffered 3,000 casualties, including a large number of prisoners.<ref name="Smith, p 112">Smith, p 112</ref> Argenteau's survivors fled northeast to the town of [[Acqui Terme]]. Bonaparte ordered Meynier to hold Dego, while he took Laharpe's division west to fight Colli's Sardinians.<ref>Fiebeger, p 6</ref>

However, the French troops in Dego then gave themselves over to looting, and during the night they were mostly scattered in the nearby houses. At dawn on 15 April, under cover of fog, the defences were counter-attacked by an Austrian force under Colonel [[Josef Philipp Vukassovich|Josef Vukassovich]]. Beaulieu planned for Vukassovich to reinforce Argenteau the day before, but his orders were poorly written and his subordinate showed up at Dego a day too late. Nevertheless, taken by surprise, the French were rapidly driven out of Dego and back to their starting point of the day before. Allegedly, the surprise attack caught Masséna in bed with a woman and he escaped in his nightshirt.<ref name="Chandler, ''Campaigns'', p 73">Chandler, ''Campaigns'', p 73</ref>

Masséna took some time to take control of the situation again. He recalled Laharpe and organised a counter-attack, which was supported by other reinforcements brought up by Bonaparte. Vukassovich's force was heavily outnumbered, and was unable to defend for long before it was driven out, leaving Dego definitively in French hands.

==Results==

The second day's action cost the Austrians a further 670 killed and wounded, plus 1,087 captured. The Preiss Infantry Regiment # 24 took particularly heavy losses. The French lost 621 killed and wounded, and 317 captured.<ref name="Smith, p 112"/> The second day surprise made Bonaparte anxious that Beaulieu might intervene from the east, so the French general reorganized his forces and sent out strong patrols on 16 April. But Argenteau's mauling at Montenotte and Dego shook Beaulieu's nerve and he stayed near Acqui. Satisfied that Beaulieu was out of the picture, Bonaparte turned on Colli with his main strength on 17 April.<ref name="Chandler, ''Campaigns'', p 73"/> On 21 April, The French beat Colli at the [[Battle of Mondovì]] and soon afterward the Sardinian government sued for peace.

==Footnotes==
<references/>

==References==
*Boycott-Brown, M. ''The Road to Rivoli'', London, Cassell, 2001
*[[David G. Chandler|Chandler, David]]. ''The Campaigns of Napoleon.'' New York: Macmillan, 1966.
*Chandler, David ''Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars''. Wordsworth editions, 1999.
*Fiebeger, G. J. ''The Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte of 1796-1797''. West Point, NY: US Military Academy Printing Office, 1911. Reprinted in ''Bonaparte in Italy'' [[Operational Studies Group]] wargame study folder.
*Schels, J. B. 'Die Gefechte in den Apenninen, bei Voltri, Montenotte, Millessimo, Cossaria und Dego, im April 1796.' Oesterreichische Militärische Zeitschrift, Bd. 2 (1822): 123-217
*[[Digby Smith|Smith, Digby]]. ''The Napoleonic Wars Data Book.'' London: Greenhill, 1998. ((ISBN|1-85367-276-9))

==External links==
*[http://napoleonistyka.atspace.com/italian_campaign.htm Bonaparte's blitzkrieg in Italy 1796, Dego and Lodi]

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