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

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Palestro (Unification of Italy).

Fought May 30, 1859, between the Sardinians, under General Cialdini, and the Austrians, under General Stadion. The Austrians attacked the Sardinians while they were crossing the Sesia, but were repulsed, and Cialdini effected the passage successfully and drove the Austrians out of Palestro with considerable loss.