On May 29, 1848, near two villages called Curtatone and Montanara, a few miles from the fortified city of Mantua, an astonishing struggle took place. Field-Marshal of the Empire of Austria Count Johann Joseph Radetzky took his Austrian Army Corps, nearly 35,000 strong on a manoeuvre to surround and destroy the Tuscan-Neapolitan lines facing Mantua ( Read more... )