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Victory had gone to the Franco-Spanish army, …

Years: 1744 - 1744
October

Victory had gone to the Franco-Spanish army, but it had become apparent on the evening of September 30 that Charles Emmanuel's brilliantly conceived plan had fulfilled most of its objectives.

Although the Bourbon outposts around Cuneo are intact, the siege works have been destroyed, the garrison re-supplied and reinforced, and Conti's communications have been cut.

Further problems follow when it begins to rain on the first of October; the trenches flood and roads are wiped out.

It is decided at a council of war on October 11 that with winter approaching and the Franco-Spanish Army even further from their goal, the army should retreat before the winter snows close the passes behind them.

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