The Piedmont army, after some delays and…
March 1848 CE
The Piedmont army, after some delays and stalling, crosses into Lombardy on March 24, while the Austrian commander, the eighty-two-year-old Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky, decides to retreat into the "Quadrilatero", a group of four fortresses (Peschiera, Mantova, Legnago and Verona) halfway between Milan and Venice.