Battle of Villabuona

Battle of Villabuona
	Part of Thirty Years' War and of the War of the Mantuan Succession
Date	29 May 1630
Location	Villabona, Comune di Goito, Lombardy, Italy45°15′19″N 10°42′26″E / 45.25528°N 10.70722°E
Result	Imperial victory
Belligerents
Holy Roman Empire	Republic of Venice; Kingdom of France
Commanders and leaders
Matthias Gallas	Duc de Candale; Zaccaria Sagredo ; Ludovico Vimercati; Chevalier de la Valette (POW)
Strength
10,000 troops	17,500 troops
Casualties and losses
400 killed and wounded	4,000 killed, 500 captured

The Battle of Villabuona (sometimes spelled "Villabona") was fought on 29 May 1630 in the frazione of Villabona (a locality in the comune of Goito) in southern Lombardy during the Mantuan war of succession between an allied Franco-Venetian army led by the Venetian provveditore Zaccaria Sagredo and the French commander Duc de Candale on one side and the Imperial army of Mathias Gallas on the other. The more numerous Franco-Venetians and their Mantuan allies hoped to end the Imperial siege of Mantua but were comprehensively defeated by Gallas' smaller force, numbering perhaps 10,000 men. The defeat was tactically and strategically significant for the allies and "rendered the outcome of the siege of Mantua a foregone conclusion", leading to the collapse of the city's defenses and its infamous sack later that year.^[1]

^ Hammer, P.J., ed. (2017). Warfare in Early Modern Europe 1450-1660. London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781351873765.

[1] Hammer, P.J., ed. (2017). Warfare in Early Modern Europe 1450-1660. London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781351873765.

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