Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A 1859, ya shiga cikin bala'in Magenta
, inda sojojin Austriya suka ci nasara da sojojin Franco-Sardinian. A 1860, ya zama kwamandan rundunar, kuma an tura shi a 1866 zuwa Bohemia. A shekara ta 1867, an daukaka shi zuwa Janar na Sojan doki, ya kasance a ofishin har zuwa 1878.