 Battle of Ponte Novu

The Battle of Ponte Novu took place on May 8 and 9 1769 between royal French forces under the Comte de Vaux, a seasoned professional soldier with an expert on mountain warfare on his staff, and the native Corsicans under Carlo Salicetti.It was the battle that effectively ended the fourteen-year-old Corsican Republic and opened the way to annexation by France the following year.