Battle of Ponte Novu
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title:
Battle of Ponte Novu
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The Battle of Ponte Novu took place on May 8 and 9, 1769, between royal French forces under the Comte de Vaux, a seasoned professional soldier with an expert on mountain warfare on his staff, and the native Corsicans under Carlo Salicetti. It was the battle that effectively ended the fourteen-year-old Corsican Republic and opened the way to annexation by France the following year. The Corsican commander-in-chief, Pasquale Paoli, was trying to raise troops in the vicinity but was not present in p
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1769 battle
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ponte_Novu
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2006-07-19T01:54:18Z
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2024-09-11T21:24:12Z
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