Battle of Piacenza

Battle of Piacenza (1746)
	Part of the War of the Austrian Succession
	; The battle at Piacenza in 1746; painting by Karl von Blaas (Museum: Belvedere)
Date	16 June 1746
Location	Piacenza, Italy
Result	Austrian victory
Belligerents
Spain; France	Austria
Commanders and leaders
Comte de Gages; Marquis de Maillebois	Prince Josef Wenzel; Marquis of Botta d'Adorno; Count Maximilian Ulysses Browne
Strength
25,000 Spanish,; 15,000 French	45,000
Casualties and losses
13,000 dead, wounded and captured	3,400 dead or wounded

The Battle of Piacenza was fought between a Franco-Spanish army and the Austrian army near Piacenza, in Northern Italy on June 16, 1746. It formed part of later operations in the War of the Austrian Succession. The result was a victory for the Austrian forces, led by Prince Josef Wenzel.

^ According to Reed Browning: "Few would have suspected it that day, but in fact the question of domination in Lombardy had now been effectively answered for the next half century". Browning, Reed: The War of the Austrian Succession. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995. ISBN 0312125615, p. 276.
^ According to Jeremy Black, the battle of Piacenza "ended Bourbon hopes of overrunning northern Italy and set the territorial pattern of the peninsula until the French Revolutionary Wars". Black, Jeremy: European Warfare, 1660–1815. London: Taylor & Francis, 1994. ISBN 185728173X, p. 127.
^ ^a ^b Browning, p. 274
^ ^a ^b Browning, p. 276