Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Hondo yechipiri yeDego
rakarwiwa musi wa14 na15 April 1796. Musi wa13 kuma2:00 masikati, André Masséna akaongorora nzvimbo dzeAustria nePiedmontese idzo dzakanga dzakasimbiswa uye dzakatsigirwa nezvidimbu gumi nezvisere zvepfuti. Zuva rakatevera pa 11:00 AM, Masséna akatanga kufambisa divi raJean-Baptiste Meynier mberi mumakoramu maviri kuti arwise vadziviriri ve3.000. Kurudyi, Jean Jacques La Salcette akanga ane mauto 1.800 kusanganisira 17th Light Infantry Demi-Brigade. Pakati, Masséna akatora kuzvidzora pachake kwevarume 2,600 ve14th uye 32nd Line Infantry. Kuruboshwe, Amédée Emmanuel Francois Laharpe akatora divi rake kumahombekombe ekumadokero kweBormida di Spigno ndokusunungura zvombo zvitanhatu kutsigira kurwisa. Apo La Salcette's flanking column yakatanga kutyisidzira maAustria kuruboshwe rworuboshwe pamusoro pe3: 00 PM, Masséna akafambisa varume vake mberi kuti varwise Dego kubva kumaodzanyemba. Laharpe akaumba divi rake mumakoramu matatu ndokutuma varume vake kuyambuka rwizi kuchamhembe kweDego kunorwisa divi rokurudyi reAustro-Piedmontese. Causse akatungamirira mauto maviri e51st Line Infantry kurudyi, Jean-Baptiste Cervoni akatungamirira rimwe boka re75th Line Infantry pakati apo rimwe boka re75th rakatungamira kuruboshwe. Henri Christian Michel de Stengel akafukidza rutivi rworuboshwe nemapoka maviri evapfuuri vamabhiza. Kurwisa kwechiFrench kusina tsitsi kwakamanikidza vadziviriri kudzokera shure. Apo mutungamiriri wehondo yeAustria Eugene-Guillaume Argenteau akasvika achinonoka namabataiyoni maviri okuwedzera, vaFrench vakangomudzinga. Pamwe chete, vaFrench vakatora pfuti 16, mavara mana, uye vasungwa vanosvika 1.500.