Battle of Diersheim
| date | 20th bis 21st April 1797 |
|---|---|
| place | Diersheim , Germany |
| output | Victory of France |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
| Troop strength | |
| 48,500 | 24,000 |
| losses | |
|
3,000 |
2,900 |
First Coalition War (1792–1797)
Verdun - Thionville - Valmy - Lille - Mainz (1792) - Jemappes - Namur - Neerektiven - Mainz (1793) - Famars - Valenciennes (1793) - Arlon (1793) - Hondschoote - Meribel - Avesnes-le-Sec - Pirmasens - Toulon - Fontenay-le-Comte - Cholet - Lucon - Trouillas - Menin - Wattignies - Biesingen - Kaiserslautern (1793) - First Battle of Weissenburg (1793) - Second Battle of Weissenburg (1793) - Boulou - Tourcoing - Tournay - 13th Prairial - Fleurus - Vosges - Aldenhoven - San-Lorenzo de la Muga - Genoa - Hyeres - Handschuhsheim - Mainz (1795) - Loano - Montenotte - Millesimo - Dego - Mondovi - Lodi - Borghetto - Castiglione - Mantua - Siegburg - Altenkirchen - Wetzlar - Kircheib - Kehl - Kalteiche - Malsch - Neresheim - Deining - Amberg - Würzburg - Rovereto - Bassano - Limburg - Biberach I - Emmendingen - Schliengen - Arcole - Fall von Kehl - Rivoli (1797) - St. Vincent - Diersheim - Santa Cruz - Neuwied - Camperduin
The Battle of Diersheim took place from April 20 to 21, 1797 near Diersheim in what is now Baden-Württemberg . There were 48,500 men from France under Jean-Victor Moreau and 24,000 men from Austria under Anton Sztáray von Nagy-Mihaly . Both sides lost about 3,000 soldiers in the battle and Austria also lost 13 cannons . The Austrian General Wilhelm von Immens was killed during the battle and Anton Sztáray was seriously injured. The Battle of Diersheim was actually unnecessary and a waste of life, as Napoleon Bonaparte had signed the Treaty of Leoben three days earlier, which brought about a ceasefire between Austria and France. Despite this problem, Moreau's reputation improved with his hard-won victory.
literature
- Smith, Digby : The Napoleonic Wars Data Book . Greenhill, London 1998, ISBN 1-85367-276-9 .
- Friedrich Kößler: The Rhine and border village Diersheim . Typewriter manuscript 1938.
- Friedrich Kößler: Diersheim . Schnoog, Diersheim 1994. ISBN 3-9803985-1-X ; Extended second edition of Das Rhein- und Grenzdorf Diersheim with additions by Lieselotte Simon, Kurt Bleß and Helga Grampp-Weiß
- Gerhard Waag: Small Diersheimer History Book . Typewriter manuscript prepared on the occasion of the Waag family meeting on April 22nd and 23rd, 1989
- Nikolaus Honold & Kurt Schütt: Chronicle of the city of Rheinau . sL 1988
Individual evidence
- J. Rickard: Battle of Diersheim, April 20-21, 1797 . historyofwar.org. 2009. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
- Smith, Digby : A Biographical Dictionary of all Austrian Generals during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars 1792-1815: Sztáray de Nagy-Mihály et Sztára, Anton Graf . The Napoleon Series. 2008. Retrieved August 20, 2014.