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Battle of Wissembourg

Date	26 – 27 December 1793
Location	Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, France
Result	French victory

Belligerents

France

Austria

Prussia
Electorate of Bavaria
Hesse-Kassel

Commanders

Lazare Hoche
Charles Pichegru

Dagobert von Wurmser
Ernst von Rüchel

Strength

35,000^[1]

38,000

Casualties and losses

Not known

Not known, 21 guns

War of the First Coalition

Verdun – Valmy – Jemappes – 1st Mainz – Neerwinden – Famars – 1st Arlon - Hondshoote – 1st Wissembourg – Wattignies – Kaiserslautern - Toulon - 2nd Wissembourg - 2nd Arlon - Villers-en-Cauchies – Tourcoing – Tournay – 3rd Arlon - Ushant – Fleurus – Vosges – 1st Dego – Luxembourg – Genoa – Groix – Quiberon - Hyères – 2nd Mainz – Loano - Montenotte – Millesimo – 2nd Dego – Mondovì – Fombio – Lodi – Borghetto – Lonato – Castiglione – Neresheim – Amberg – Würzburg – Rovereto – 1st Bassano – 2nd Bassano – Calliano – Caldiero – Arcole – Expédition d'Irlande – Kehl – Rivoli – Mantua – Fishguard – Neuwied - Camperdown

War in the Vendée – War of the Pyrenees – Flanders Campaign - Anglo–Spanish War

The Battle of Wissembourg on 26 to 27 December 1793 saw an army of the First French Republic under General Lazare Hoche defeat a joint Austro-Prussian force led by General Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser. The action occurred during the War of the First Coalition phase of the French Revolutionary Wars.

1 Background
2 Battle
3 References
- 3.1 Books
- 3.2 Footnotes

Background

During the First Battle of Wissembourg on 13 October 1793, the Lines of Weissenburg, defended by the French Army of the Rhine, were stormed by an Austrian-Allied army under Austrian General Wurmser.^[2]^[3] A month later, Fort-Louis on the Rhine was forced to surrender to the allies.^[4] The French government responded to the crisis by sending reinforcements from the Army of the Moselle.

Battle

The allies were in their turn dispossessed by Hoche on 26 December and forced to retreat behind the Rhine.^[5]^[6]^[7]

It was a French victory and enabled French forces to take over the whole of Alsace. It also led to a definitive break between the Austrians and the Prussians, who both blamed each other for the defeat. The battle's name is engraved on the north pillar of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

References

Books

Smith, Digby. The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill, 1998. ISBN 1-85367-276-9

Footnotes

^ Smith, p 65-66
^ Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition Weissenburg
^ Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl, John Boyd (Translated by Frederic Shoberl). The History of the French Revolution, Carey and Hart, 1844. p. 335
^ Smith, p 61
^ Friedrich Christoph Schlosser, David Davison (Translated by David Davison). History of the Eighteenth Century and of the Nineteenth Till the Overthrow of the French Empire: With Particular Reference to Mental Cultivation and Progress, Chapman and Hall, 1845. p. 540
^ Lazare Hoche
^ Note: Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition claim that Charles Pichegru was in command of the assaulting French sources.

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