Marengo (department)
The department of Marengo was old a French Département whose chief town was Alexandria in Italy.
The name of this department perpetuated the memory of the Bataille Marengo (June 14th 1800).
The department, like five others, was created the September 11th 1802 following the annexation of the Piedmont during the First Empire. It is made of parts of the departments of Tanaro and Sesia created a few years before.
Its surface was of 348,261 hectares and its population of 318 447 individuals (1810). It was divided into three communal districts. It was included/understood in the military twenty-eighth division, the sixteenth troop of the legion of honor, the twenty-ninth conservation of the forests, the diocese of Casal, the senatorery of Turin, and arose at the Court of Appeal of Genoa. This department had three deputies to elect with the legislative Body.
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