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Battle of Varese

1859 battle of the Second Italian War of Independence

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Source revisionSep 21, 2026
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The Battle of Varese was fought on 26 May 1859 at Varese (Lombardy). It was an engagement of the Second Italian War of Independence, fought between the Italian volunteers formation of the Hunters of the Alps, led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, against Austrian troops led by Karl von Urban. The Austrian defeat allowed the movement of the Hunters towards Como, and obliged the Austrians to keep troops on the northern part of the front.

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“Battle of Varese” enters the record as 1859 battle of the Second Italian War of Independence. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Battle, Varese and battle can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Battle of Varese” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.