Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Magenta (Franco-Austrian War).

Fought June 4, 1859, between the 2nd French Corps d'Armée, under Macmahon, and the main Austrian army, under Marshal Giulay, about 100,000 strong. Macmahon attacked the Austrian position, and, after hard fighting, drove them out of Magenta, and totally defeated them with a loss of about 6,000 killed and wounded. The French lost 4,400.