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Battle of Wetzlar (1796)

Part of War of the First Coalition

Date	15 June 1796
Location	Wetzlar, Germany
Result	Austrian victory

Belligerents

Republican France

Habsburg Austria

Commanders and leaders

General Jourdan

Archduke Charles

Units involved

Army of Sambre-et-Meuse

Army of the Lower Rhine

Strength

48,000

64,000

Casualties and losses

Wetzlar: 500, 7 guns
Uckerath: 3,000

Wetzlar: 400
Uckerath: 600

v t e Rhine campaign of 1796
Altenkirchen Maudach Wetzlar 1st Kehl Rastatt Ettlingen Neresheim Theiningen Amberg Friedberg (Bavaria) Würzburg Limburg 2nd Kehl Biberach Emmendingen Schliengen Hüningen 3rd Kehl

v t e War of the First Coalition (List)
Porrentruy Quiévrain Marquain Verdun Thionville Valmy Lille Mainz Jemappes Sardinia Méribel Martinique Guadeloupe Den Helder Siegburg Altenkirchen Wetzlar Kircheib 1st Kehl Malsch Neresheim Amberg Newfoundland Würzburg Limburg 2nd Kehl Biberach Ireland Fishguard Neuwied Diersheim Flanders campaign Chouannerie Mediterranean campaign War in the Vendée War of the Pyrenees Italian campaigns East Indies Theatre Rhine campaign of 1793–94 Atlantic campaign Rhine campaign of 1795 Rhine campaign of 1796 Italian campaign of 1796-1797 Anglo-Spanish War

War of the First Coalition (List)

The Battle of Wetzlar (15 June 1796) saw a Habsburg Austrian army led by Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen launch an attack on a Republican French army under Jean-Baptiste Jourdan in its defenses on the Lahn River. The War of the First Coalition action ended in an Austrian victory when most of the French army began retreating to the west bank of the Rhine River. On the 19th the combat of Uckerath was fought as the Austrians pursued the French left wing. Wetzlar is located in the state of Hesse in Germany a distance of 66 kilometres (41 mi) north of Frankfurt.

In the Rhine Campaign of 1796, Jourdan's Army of Sambre-et-Meuse won a foothold on the east bank of the Rhine after defeating its opponents at Altenkirchen on 4 June. This was part of a plan to lure Archduke Charles to the north so that the Army of Rhin-et-Moselle under Jean Victor Marie Moreau could breach the Rhine defenses in the south. The strategy worked as designed. When Charles came north with heavy forces to drive back Jourdan, Moreau successfully mounted an assault crossing of the Rhine at Kehl near Strasbourg.

References

Dodge, Theodore Ayrault (2011). Warfare in the Age of Napoleon: The Revolutionary Wars Against the First Coalition in Northern Europe and the Italian Campaign, 1789-1797. USA: Leonaur Ltd. ISBN 978-0-85706-598-8.
Phipps, Ramsay Weston (2011). The Armies of the First French Republic: Volume II The Armées du Moselle, du Rhin, de Sambre-et-Meuse, de Rhin-et-Moselle. USA: Pickle Partners Publishing. ISBN 978-1-908692-25-2.
Rickard, J. (2009). "Battle of Wetzlar, 15-16 June 1796". historyofwar.org. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
Rickard, J. (2009). "Combat of Uckerath, 19 June 1796". historyofwar.org. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.

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