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Operations in Valtellina (1866)
| Operations in Valtellina | |||||||
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| Part of Third Italian War of Independence | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Italy |
 Austria | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Enrico Guicciardi Pietro Pedranzini |
Ulysses von Albertini Alexander von Metz | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| Italian Volunteer Corps | 8th Division | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 1,200 | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | Unknown killed, 65 prisoners | ||||||
The Operations in Valtellina was a battle of the Third Italian War of Independence and consisted in the penetration of Austrian units of the 8th Division of General Franz Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld operating in Trentino against the Italian Volunteer Corps of Giuseppe Garibaldi and in the subsequent Italian counterattack of the Mobile National Guard commanded by Colonel Enrico Guicciardi.[1]
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