BATTLE OF SANTA LUCIA - BATTAGLIA DI SANTA LUCIA: 6th MAY 1848 - Maps

 As far as I know there is no precise map of the Battle of Santa Lucia, fought just in front of the walls of Verona on 6th May 1848 by Imperial Austrian troops and the Piedmontese  Army.

I tried to paint the map, with the name of the Austrian unit deployed in defense of the town. It was a defensive circle of aroud 6 km, with some avant-poste to check the advancing coloumns.

The Battle was split in two different fightings: one for the conquest of the Village of Croce Bianca and another fighting - more intense - to conquer the Village of Santa Lucia.

For the moment, I decided to reproduce the entire map of the defense around Verona, while I will be preparing other maps indicating the Piedmontese attacking columns and the very Village of Santa Lucia and the famous defence of the graveyard.

The deployment of the Austrian Troops around the town of Verona

(Copyright Michele L. SAVASTA FIORE)

The arrival of the Piedmontese troops on the battlefield and the Austrian redplyement

(Copyright Michele L. SAVASTA FIORE)

LEGENDA:

1) The 10th Jaegerbattalion going back towards the Village of Santa Lucia

2) The III Battalion of the 45th Austrian Regiment (Erzherzog Sigismond) converging on Santa Lucia

3) The D'Anthon Grenadier Battalion converging on Santa Lucia

4) The Piedmontese line of attack with the Brigades Aosta and Guardie

4bis) The original line of attack of the Piedmontese Troops

To achieve a better vision of the part where the battle actually took place, I focused on a limited part of the map above

So the part of the battlefield in between the villages of Santa Lucia and Trombetta: