The Bridge at Lodi
Battle of Lodi
10 May 1796
Lodi, present-day Italy
First French Empire
VS
Habsburg Monarchy
Commanders:
France:
Napoleon Bonaparte
Austria:
Johann Beaulieu
Karl Sebottendorf
The Battle of Lodi was fought on 10 May 1796 between French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte and an Austrian rear guard led by Karl Philipp Sebottendorf at Lodi, Lombardy. The rear guard was defeated, but the main body of Johann Peter Beaulieu’s Austrian Army had time to retreat.
