Battle near Oberhausen
| date | June 27, 1800 |
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| place | Oberhausen |
| output | French victory |
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Ostrach - Feldkirch - Stockach I - Verona - Magnano - Cassano d'Adda - Frauenfeld - Winterthur - Zurich I - Trebbia - Mantua - Novi - Vlieter - Bergen - Zurich II - Muotatal - Egmont - Genola - Wiesloch - Genoa - Stockach II - Engen - Meßkirch - Biberach II - Montebello - Marengo - Höchstädt - Oberhausen - Hohenlinden - Walserfeld - Pozzolo - Copenhagen - Algeciras I - Algeciras II
The battle near Oberhausen took place on June 27, 1800 between French troops under General Jean Victor Moreau and Austrian troops against the backdrop of the Second Coalition War . The Austrians had crossed the Danube on June 26th , had taken positions south and north of Neuburg an der Donau and occupied the hill between Oberhausen and Unterhausen . On June 27, 1800, the French attacked the position successfully. Among the dead were the Bavarian battalion commander Peter Reichsgraf von Zedtwitz , the French colonel of the 46th Infantry Half-Brigade Pierre Forty and the commander of the French grenadiers Latour . Today a memorial commemorates the battle, the land of which belongs to the French state to this day.
Web links
- Oberhausen - a piece of France on Bavarian soil
- http://www.oberhausen-donau.de/Tourismus/Sehenswerte/Latour-Denkmal
Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '8.9 " N , 11 ° 6' 12.9" E