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History and traditions

​​​​​The Military School of Milan is dedicated to General Pietro Teulié who has founded it.

Cultured and courageous, Teulié joined up the National Guard in 1797, when the French troops entered Milan.

In 1800 he was already General and in 1801 he was appointed Minister of the Cisalpina Republic War.

The General loved his soldiers and he looked after the troops’ wellness and in particular the problems of those who risked to be in poverty conditions with their family when there were not able to fight anymore. So for his initiative the veterans and the invalids with their families found an accommodation in two houses of the San Luca Monastery. He then fought to found a military college for the soldiers’ children where they could have a cultural education.

In 1802 the first rules of the military orphanage for the first Cadets, in an area of the San Luca Monastery, was drawn up.

In 1803 clearest rules established the Cadets’ number for each company to 47. In 1807 the educational level of the Institute was improved and the orphanage changed its name into “Royal College of Military Orphans”. In those years personalities such as Silvio Pellico and Ugo Foscolo (dear friend of Teulié) attended the School.

In 1814 the Austrians retook the control of Milan and the College was named “Imperial Military College of San Luca”; Silvio Pellico (from Piedmont) was forced to leave the Institute.

In 1839, in view of an homogenization of the military formation inside the Asburgo Empire, the Emperor Ferdinando I changed its name into “Imperial Royal Cadets College”, following the example of the Schools in Austria. That institution remained until the “Five Days of Milan” (18th – 22nd March 1848) when the building became an Artillery and Engineer School, by order of the temporary government.

When the Austrian came back, the School was not reopened because of the complicity between the Milan students and the rebels of 1848: so the School became a Military Hospital.

In 1859, after the King Vittorio Emanuele II and the Emperor Napoleon III entered Milan triumphantly, the Military College in Milan was reopened.

In 1869 the College was closed again for balance reasons, after economic problems of the unified Italy.

The Institute was reopened in 1874, after the law of 1873 that established a new Army organization. Even if it has become one of the best Institutes in the Reign of Italy for the quality of studies and equipment, the School was closed again in 1895.

In about 20 years it was attended by cadets that would become famous such as General Cadorna, the Senator Caviglia, General De Bono and the Engineer Forlanini (inventor of the helicopter and the hydrofoil).

The Military College remained closed for forty years until 1934 when Mussolini decided to reopened it as “Military School of Milan”.

Because of the tragic war events on 8th September 1943, the activity of the School was interrupted. It was decided to reopen the School for its prestige, tradition and strong preparation for the future, the main principles that encourage the teenagers today to sign up.

So in 1996 the Chief of General Staff of the Army, General Bonifazio Incisa di Camerana, reopened the School with the intention to make it again as an attractant pole for northern Italy.

In 1996 the School was inaugurated firstly as a detachment of the “Nunziatella” Military School of Naples; then, in 1998, it became independent as “Second Military School of the Army” and since 27th June 2000 as “Teulié” Military School”.

Past and present has given the “Teulié” Military School great prestige and in 2002 it received the Honorary Citizenship of the city of Milan.

In 2008 the President of the Republic has decorated the Institute Flag with a Bronze Medal to the Army Valour “…as admirable educational institute, custodian of traditions and example of modern military pedagogy…”.

​In 2009 the School won the “Isimbardi” prestigious award of the Province of Milan.