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Battle of Castelfidardo | |||||||
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Part of the Expedition of the Thousand Italian Unification | |||||||
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Enrico Cialdini |
Louis de Lamoricière Georges de Pimodan † Myles Keogh | ||||||
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4,880 mobilized[1] | 6,550 mobilized[1] | ||||||
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The Battle of Castelfidardo took place on 18 September 1860 at Castelfidardo, a small town in the Marche region of Italy. It was fought between the Royal Sardinian Army – acting as the driving force in the war for Italian unification, against the Papal States.[2]