Battle of Wiesloch (1799)
Location of the city of Wiesloch in the Rhein-Neckar district
| date | December 3, 1799 |
|---|---|
| place | Wiesloch |
| output | Austria defeats France |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
| Troop strength | |
| 5,000 | 17,000 |
| losses | |
|
around 500 dead (10%) |
around 1,500 dead (8.82%) |
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 Wiesloch (also known as the meeting near Wiesloch or the battle near Wiesloch ) took place during the Second Coalition War on December 3, 1799.
The background was the struggle for the Philippsburg fortress, which was besieged by the French and stormed several times . The relief army under the Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray von Nagy-Mihaly had received reinforcements, so that they now had around 15,000 men. On December first he succeeded in breaking through the opponent's positions and relieving Philippsburg for the fourth time.
On December 2nd, the French were pushed back further. They tried to keep Wiesloch on December 3rd . When the enemy attacked them for the first time, they were driven out of the place but were able to take it again. In a second assault the imperial could finally take the place. The French refrained from stronger resistance because they saw their goal of covering the right wing of their main army as they retreated. The French army withdrew from the areas on the right bank of the Rhine and this ended their siege of the Philippsburg fortress.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Hüffer : The war of the year 1799 and the second coalition. Vol. 1, Gotha 1904, p. 238.
- ↑ Reinhold Günther: The campaign of the Lecourbe division in the Swiss high mountains 1799. Frauenfeld, 1896 p. 28
- ↑ Carl von Clausewitz : Left works on war and warfare. Vol. 2 Berlin, 1858 p. 243
literature
- Stephen Pope: The Cassell Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars . Cassell, London 1999, ISBN 0-304-35229-2
- Adolf Schinzl: Sztáray, Anton Graf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 293-295.
Web links
- Wiesloch , Clash of Steel page