 By 1747, the war was coming to an end, but the French were still interested in acquiring more influence in Italy, and so dispatched an army under the command of general Louis Charles Armand Fouquet to capture Colle dell'Assietta from the Sardinians.The French army organised into thirty-two battalions, encountered fortified Sardinian positions at the Susa Valley, and launched wave after wave of fruitless assaults on their fortifications.The French divided their forces into four columns and launched several assaults personally led by Fouquet but they were all repulsed with heavy casualties inflicted.