Cassano, a town of Southern Italy, 34 miles N. of Cosenza. Pop. 7407.—CASSANO, on the Adda, 16 miles ENE. of Milan by rail, was the scene of two sanguinary battles—a defeat in 1705 of the Imperialists under Prince Eugene, by the French under Vendôme; and a defeat in 1799 of the French themselves under Moreau, by the Russians and Austrians under Suwaroff. Pop. 3554.
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