Milan's Five Days: Citizens Drive Austrian Army Out
Milanese citizens erected barricades and fought Austrian troops street by street for five grueling days, forcing Marshal Radetzky to withdraw his garrison of 20,000 soldiers from the city. The "Cinque Giornate" became the most celebrated episode of Italy's radical year and inspired uprisings across the peninsula. Radetzky regrouped and recaptured Milan five months later.
March 18, 1848
178 years ago
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