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3 unusual facts about Tagliamento


Jean-Marie Dorsenne

With the Army of Italy at the crossing of the Tagliamento (16 March 1797), Dorsenne's heroic conduct was noticed by commander-in-chief, general Napoleon Bonaparte, who promoted him to the rank of chef de bataillon (battalion commander).

Nicolas Bernard Guiot de Lacour

On 11 November 1805, the Austrians fought a successful rear guard action at Valvasone on the Tagliamento River in which the 23rd and 30th Dragoons were present.

Svetozar Boroević

After that Boroević regrouped at the Tagliamento river, then fell back to Velden, where he sent a telegram to the Emperor offering to march on Vienna to fight the anti-Habsburg revolution in the imperial capital.


Count Manfred Beckett Czernin

After the war Count Czernin was accused of arranging the execution of 43 Italian fascist servicemen of the Legione Tagliamento during the night of 27/28 April 1945 (Rovetta massacre).

Neoclassical architecture in Milan

The entablature depicts allegories of the main rivers of the region, the Po, Ticino, Adige and Tagliamento, sculpted by Pompeo Marchesi.

Pellegrino II of Aquileia

He continued his war against Treviso, laying siege to Pordenone, but was defeated in 1201 by the League at Tagliamento.

Simon Boswell

In 1982 he produced and arranged the album "Via Tagliamento 1965-1970" for the popular Italian singer and songwriter Renato Zero.


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