Bard
a fortress and village in the Italian province of Turin, on the left bank of the Dora Baltea, about 23 miles S. E. of Aosta. When the French crossed the St. Bernard, in 1800, the fortress of Bard, manned by 400 Austrians, maintained for 10 days a resistance to their further advance into Italy. Ultimately Napoleon contrived to elude the vigilance of the garrison, and passed by a mountain-track during the night. Bard was taken a short time after by the French, and razed, but, in 1825, it was restored.