Combat of Gavi (1799)

Combat of Gavi
Part of the Italian campaigns during the war of the Second Coalition
Gavi – panorama
Date 17 August 1799 Location Gavi, Piedmont, Northern Italy Result Russian victory[a]
Belligerents
Russian Empire	French Republic
Commanders and leaders
Andrei Rosenberg Maxim Rehbinder
Casualties and losses
5 killed, 17 wounded[1]	Heavy, incl. 130 captured[1]

The combat of Gavi was fought to no avail on the morning of 17 August (O.S. 6 Aug.) 1799 during the Second Coalition war, in pursuit of the defeated French army after the battle of Novi. The combat included Rosenberg's Russian vanguard, under Rehbinder's command.^[1][2]

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