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Updated: May 15, 2025
On April 23rd Francis Joseph, without it was said the knowledge of his responsible ministers, sent an ultimatum to Turin, requiring an answer within three days: at the expiration of that time the Austrians would cross the frontier. The allies utilised the delay to complete their preparations; and before the three days had ended the advance of the Franco-Sardinian army had begun.
On that vast battlefield the combatants had numbered three hundred thousand men one hundred sixty thousand Austrians and one hundred forty thousand French and Sardinians of all these, after that sanguinary struggle, twenty-five thousand were left dead or wounded. After a few days' rest the Franco-Sardinian army crossed the Mincio and besieged Peschiera.
On the morning of the 24th the Franco-Sardinian army began their march at dawn, and shortly afterward, to their great amazement, encountered the Austrians, who they imagined had crossed the Mincio the night before. The struggle was terrible; in fact, the line covered by the fighting extended a distance of five leagues.
A series of hills, dominated by Solferino and San Martino, formed the positions the Franco-Sardinian army had to assail. The French contested Solferino with the Austrians, and, after a hotly disputed battle of more than twelve hours, succeeded in occupying it.
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