At this juncture, Garibaldi was relentlessly pursuing the retreating Austrian forces with a formidable contingent that had increased from 3,000 to around 12,000 volunteers and reinforced by Piedmontese troops of the brigade Voghera.

[3] Having successfully breached the initial Austrian lines of defense, the Italian forces soon found themselves entrapped, surrounded from three directions, and subjected to relentless and withering enemy fire.

As the Italian forces discovered themselves entrapped within this intricate web, Von Urban executed a meticulously coordinated maneuver, ordering an attack in pincers by his right and left flanks.

[3] Confronted by this relentless onslaught and entrapped within the tactical scheme, the Italian forces were compelled to retreat in a disorderly rout, retracing their steps in a desperate effort to regain their initial positions.

[6] After this defeat, Garibaldi and his Hunters of the Alps were diverged to an unimportant theater of the war, effectively removing the force of 12.000 men from joining the decisive Battle of Solferino.