Battle of San Fermo

Battle of San Fermo
Part of the Second Italian War of Independence
Date 27 May 1859 Location San Fermo, near Como, Lombardy Result Italian victory
Belligerents
Alpine Hunters	Austrian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Giuseppe Garibaldi Carlo De Cristoforis [it] †[1] 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.^[2]