Montebello Casteggio, a village of Northern Italy, 14 miles S. by W. of Pavia, where the Austrians were defeated by a French army under General Lannes (afterwards Duke of Montebello), after a desperate conflict, 9th June 1800. In May 1859 the Austrians were again defeated here by the united French and Piedmontese army.
Montebello Casteggio
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 284
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