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

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Morazzone (Italian Rising).

Fought 1848 between 1,500 Garibaldian volunteers, under Garibaldi, and 5,000 Austrians, under General d’Aspré[d’Aspré]. After a resistance lasting eleven hours, Garibaldi, hopelessly out-numbered, withdrew[withdrew] his force from the town, and executed a masterly retreat to Arona.