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Five Days of Milan
1848 conflict during the First Italian War of Independence / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the 1848 insurrection. For the film about it, see The Five Days.
The Five Days of Milan (Italian: Cinque giornate di Milano [ˈtʃiŋkwe dʒorˈnaːte di miˈlaːno]) was an insurrection and a major event in the Revolutionary Year of 1848 that started the First Italian War of Independence. On 18 March, a rebellion arose in the city of Milan which in five days of street fighting drove Marshal Radetzky and his Austrian soldiers from the city.
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Five Days of Milan | |||||||
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Part of the First Italian War of Independence | |||||||
![]() The Five Days of Milan by Carlo Bossoli | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Carlo Cattaneo Gabrio Casati Luciano Manara [2][3][4][5] |
Joseph Radetzky Ludwig von Wohlgemuth [6][7][8][9] | ||||||
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1,700 barricades[10] armed with 600–650 firearms along with stones, bottles, clubs, pikes and swords [10][11] | 12,000 garrison[7][12] | ||||||
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409–424 killed[3][6] including 43 women and children 600+ wounded[6] |
181 killed[13] including 5 officers 235 wounded[6] including 4 officers 150–180 captured[13] |
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Quick Facts Provisional Government of MilanGoverno provvisorio di Milano (in Italian), Capital ...
Provisional Government of Milan Governo provvisorio di Milano (in Italian) | |||||||||
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1848–1848 | |||||||||
Capital | Milan | ||||||||
Common languages | Italian, Lombard | ||||||||
Government | Republic | ||||||||
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Historical era | Revolutions of 1848 | ||||||||
9 June 1815 | |||||||||
18 March 1848 | |||||||||
22 March 1848 | |||||||||
24 June 1859 | |||||||||
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