Saturday, August 9, 2025

1744 MADONNA DELL'OLMO: THE FIRST EVER (DEFINITIVE) MAP OF THE BATTLE

 With a lot of efforts, comparing different maps and sources, trying not to get confused I realized a dream I had since a lot as Piedmontese: the final and definitive map of the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo on 30th September 1744, in front of besieged town of Cuneo.

I present here my work that requestes - sincerly - a lot of efforts to accomplish.



I prepare also in bigger version so taht you can read the numbers.


here under the legenda of the numbers, Piedmontese/Austrian and French/Spanish






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and here the complete map

I think for the genesis of the map and how I reached this result, I will prepare a different post.
Just to know as main sources 
- "La Campagna Militare del 1744 nelle Alpi Occidentali e l'Assedio di Cuneo - Author Bartolomeo Giuliano. Biblioteca della Società per gli Studi Storici Archeologici ed Artistici della Provincia di Cuneo". This book with a lot of maps I found on ebay and immediatly bought. (1967)

- Attraverso le Alpi of Vittorio Turletti - Paravia - Year 1897 (bought on ebay)
- El Ejército Espanol tras la Guerra de Succesiòn (II) de Guerreros y Batallas of J. Notario Lòpez
- The Sardinian Piedmontese Army in the War of the Austrian Succession 1740 - 1748 of David A. Wilson by Helion & Company.

and others like this found on internet ... but I will explain in a next post.




2 comments:

  1. Great work! I will compare with what I have and adjust my OOB to conform to your research. This battle has seen action on my table a number of times.

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  2. Thanks! I am happy to be of some help. Please consider I have to adjust the OOB (and hence the map) due to new info I found on an old book (for exsmple the grenadiers companies detached were in total 39, 24 on the left wing and the rest dispersed in between and so the reserve. I think this week I will be able to do it. I've gotten also a lot of info on the siege of Cuneo (OOB and attacks and maps) and I've got the idea to get deeper in the studies with that part as well. Finally, I will publish a post here with the first Spansh in paper at 1:7 ratio

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