Siege of Pizzighettone

Part of the War of the Polish Succession

An Italian military map depicting Pizzighettone and Gera, 1733

Date	11 November – 9 December 1733
Location	near Pizzighettone, then in the Duchy of Milan, present-day Italy
Result	Franco-Sardinian victory

Belligerents

Kingdom of France

Kingdom of Sardinia

Habsburg Monarchy

War of the Polish Succession

Kehl Pizzighettone Danzig Bitonto Trarbach Philippsburg San Pietro Gaeta Capua Guastalla Clausen

The Siege of Pizzighettone was the first major military engagement of the northern Italian campaigns of the War of the Polish Succession. Troops from France and the Kingdom of Sardinia began blockading the Habsburg Milanese fortress at Pizzighettone on 11 November 1733, commencing siege operations on 15 November. On 30 November the commander of the Austrian garrison negotiated a capitulation in which he promised to withdraw toward Mantua on 9 December if no relief arrived. As no reinforcements appeared by that time, the fortress' garrison withdrew with full honors on 9 December.

References

Military campaigns of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Volume 19 (German)

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