Siege of Messina (1848)

Siege of Messina
Part of Sicilian revolution of 1848
Messina, 1848: clashes between the Bourbon royalists and the insurgents
Date September 1848 Location Messina, Sicily Result Neapolitan victory: The Bourbons of Naples regain control of Messina
Belligerents
Army of the Two Sicilies	Kingdom of Sicily
Commanders and leaders
Carlo Filangieri
Strength
25.000	6.000

The siege of Messina during the Sicilian Revolution of 1848 was the final moment in a series of events that, from January to September of that year, pitted the forces of the Sicilian insurgents and those of the Bourbon army against each other in Messina, which, after a series of defeats, recaptured the city at the end of a heavy bombardment. Rather than a siege in the classical sense of the term, it can be described as a very long military operational cycle, with an uninterrupted succession of clashes of varying magnitude and scope.