Battle Of The Mincio River (1814)
In the War of the Sixth Coalition, the Battle of the Mincio River was fought on February 8, 1814 and resulted in an inconclusive engagement between the French under Eugène de Beauharnais and the Austrians under Field Marshal Heinrich von Bellegarde. The battle was not as decisive as Eugène hoped, and in the end it had little significant impact upon the major campaign being waged in France.
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