Battle of Lambach (1805)

Battle at Lambach

Part of: Third Coalition War

date	October 31, 1805
place	Lambach , Upper Austria
output	French victory

Parties to the conflict
France Bavaria	Russia Austria
Commander
Louis-Nicolas Davout	Pyotr Bagration Emanuel Freiherr Schustekh
Troop strength
	3,700 men
losses
	Russia: 148 men Austria: 400 men

The battle at Lambach was a skirmish of the Third Coalition War , in which on October 31, 1805 the rearguard of the retreating troops of the Austro - Russian coalition , commanded by Pyotr Bagration , was wiped out by French troops under Marshal Davout near Lambach .

prehistory

The battle at Lambach took place immediately after the surrender of the Austrian troops in Ulm , from where the route to Vienna was open to the Grande Armée . The French and Bavarian troops followed the retreating Austrian units under Kienmayer , who had united with Russian troops at Braunau, into the Austrian Danube region and fought several rearguard battles.

Course of the battle

The Austrian rearguard under Major General Schustekh wanted to involve the Grande Armée in Gaspoltshofen in order to enable the Austrian troops to retreat across the Traun near Lambach in an orderly manner. Although the rearguard was constantly thrown back, it managed to delay the advance of the Grande Armée long enough. After a fierce battle for the bridge over the Traun, the Austrian troops managed to set it on fire. The French then crossed the Traun in ships below Lambach and thus forced the rearguard waiting in Lambach to retreat to Kremsmünster .

consequences

The Austrians did not succeed in stopping the advancing troops of the Grande Armée.

literature

• Günther Probszt : The battle near Lambach 1805 . In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter , vol. 18, issue 1/2, Jan – Jun 1964, online (PDF; 271 kB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at