Defeat at the Battle of Magenta saw the Austrian withdraw across eastern Lombardy leaving the capital city of Milan to the French and Piedmont-Sardinian forces. Emperor Franz Joseph I dismissed Count Guylai, the defeated Austrian commander, and took personal command of his armies. (By John Osborne)
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The Annual Register or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1859 (London: F. & J. Rivington, 1860), 246.
The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1860 (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1860), 390.
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