e/Siege of Pizzighettone

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has glosseng: The Siege of Pizzighettone was the first major military engagement of the northern Italian campaigns of the War of the Polish Succession. Troops from France and the Kingdom of Sardinia began blockading the Habsburg Milanese fortress at Pizzighettone on November 11, 1733, commencing siege operations on November 15. On November 30 the commander of the Austrian garrison negotiated a capitulation in which he promised to withdraw toward Mantua on December 9 if no relief arrived. As no reinforcements appeared by that time, the fortress' garrison withdrew with full honors on December 9.
lexicalizationeng: Siege of Pizzighettone
instance of(noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
beleaguering, siege, besieging, military blockade

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