The Battle of Anghiari was suck you a battle fought on June 29, 1440, between Milan and the Italian League led by Republic of Florence in the course of the Wars in Lombardy. June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. ... For alternative meanings, see number 1440. ... Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese: Milán (listen)) is the main city of northern Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. ... Florence (Italian, Firenze) is a city in the center of Tuscany, in central Italy, on the Arno River, with a population of around 400,000, plus a suburban population in excess of 200,000. ... The wars in Lombardy between Venice and Milan, lasted from 1425 to the signing of the Treaty of Lodi in 1454. ...

The League's army concentrating in Anghiari, a small centre of Tuscany, comprised: 4000 Papal troops, under Cardinal Lodovico Trevisan; a Florentine contingent of the same size, and a company of 300 men-at-arms (knights) from Venice, led by Micheletto Attendolo. Other men joined for the occasion from the Anghiari itself. Tuscany (Italian: ) is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. ... Map of the Papal States. ... Venice, (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venexia) is the capital of the region of Veneto and the province of the same name in Italy. ...

The famous condottiero Niccolò led for Milanese sovereign Filippo Maria Visconti a numerically superior force, which reached the area where the League had camped in the night of June 28. Some 2,000 men from the nearby Sansepolcro itself joined his troops. Confiding in his superior manpower, and on some certain surprise effect, Piccinino attacked in the afternoon of the following day. However, Micheletto from his camp noticed the dust lifted by the Milanese on the Sansepolcro-Anghiari road, and the surprise went lost. Condottieri (singular condottiere) were mercenary leaders employed by Italian city-states from the late Middle Ages until the mid-sixteenth century. ... Filippo Maria Visconti Filippo Maria Visconti, (1392–1447), who became nominal ruler of Pavia in 1402, succeeded his assassinated brother Gian Maria Visconti as Duke of Milan. ... June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 186 days remaining. ... San Sepolcro, or Borgo Santo Sepolcro, a town and episcopal see of Tuscany, Italy, in the province of Arezzo. ...

Micheletto's knights blocked the Milanese vanguard on the bridge over a channel protecting the League camp. While the latter's army set for battle, Micheletto and the Venetians hold strong at the bridge, until pushed back the arrive of opponent reinforces led by the two captains Francesco Piccinino and Astorre Manfredi. Astorre Manfredi (c. ...

However, the advancing Milanese were in turn attacked from the right by the Papal troops, and obliged to retreat to the bridge. The battle continued for four hours, until a surrounding maneuver cut off a third of the Milanese on the League side of the channel.

The battle ended at high night with a victory for the League army.

External links

• Official website of Anghiari