Five Days of Milan

BelligerentsMilanese insurgentsAustriaCommanders and leadersCarlo Cattaneo
Gabrio Casati
Luciano Manara
Joseph Radetzky
Ludwig von Wohlgemuth
Strength 1,700 barricades
armed with 600–650 firearms along with stones, bottles, clubs, pikes and swords 12,000 garrisonCasualties and losses 409–424 killed
including 43 women and children
600+ wounded 181 killed
including 5 officers
235 wounded
including 4 officers
150–180 captured

The Five Days of Milan (Italian: Cinque giornate di Milano) was an insurrection and a major event in the Revolutionary Year of 1848 that started the First Italian War of Independence. On 18 March, a rebellion arose in the city of Milan which in five days of street fighting drove Marshal Radetzky and his Austrian soldiers from the city.