Piedmontese soldier, born in Sagliano, Piedmont, NW Italy. He joined the Corps of Miners, and during the War of the Spanish Succession he saved Turin from French siege by blowing up the tunnel which gave access to the city. He died in the process.
Pietro Micca (March 6, 1677 - August 30, 1706) was an Italian soldier who became a national hero for his sacrifice in the defence of Turin (1706) against the French troops.
Biography
Micca was born at Sagliano (Piedmont).
During the siege, a party of the besiegers had succeeded in penetrating by surprise into the tunnels of the fortress on the night of August 29-30, and would undoubtedly have captured it had not Micca, a soldier in the engineers, fired a mine, with the result that he and the attackers were blown into the air and the rest of the force then driven back with heavy losses.
A Museum in Turin, devoted to the battle, is entitled to Pietro Micca.
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