Battle of Castiglione (1706)
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The Battle of Castiglione took place near Castiglione delle Stiviere in Lombardy, Italy on 9 September 1706 during the War of the Spanish Succession. A French army of 12,000 attacked a Hessian corps o
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Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, Allied commander at Castiglione
Convention of Milan
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The Convention of Milan, signed on 13 March 1707 during the War of the Spanish Succession, was an agreement between France and Austria which ended the fighting in Northern Italy. The French were allow
Battle of Castiglione (1706)
…victories elsewhere meant that by the end of 1706, French troops in Lombardy were isolated and their surrender only a matter of time. This led to the Convention of Milan in March 1707, which allowed them free passage to France in return for withdrawing from their remaining garrisons and effectively ended the war in…
Prince de Vaudémont, the last Spanish Governor of Milan who negotiated the Convention