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The Battle of Würzburg was fought on September 3, 1796. It resulted in the victory of Austria under Archduke Charles against a French army led by Jourdan.
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[edit] BattleThe French army advanced against what they thought to be an isolated Austrian division under Anton Sztáray. Jourdan's plan was to attack Sztáray with the divisions of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte and Jean Championnet, leaving the divisions of Jacques Bonnaud and Paul Grenier in reserve. However, the early morning mist enabled Archduke Charles to bring up the division of Friedrich Hotze as a reinforcement to Sztáray, effectively undoing what Jourdan thought to be a great numerical superiority for the French. Jourdan's imagined superiority diminished even more when the division of Anton Elsnitz to the north kept the much larger force under François Lefebvre out of the battle. Meanwhile, Austrian engineers were laying pontoon bridges over the Main in order to let the remainder of the Austrian army cross the river. The French attacked the Austrian position without success until the Austrian divisions of Pál Kray and Wilhelm Wartensleben arrived and drove the French off the field. [edit] ResultThe French suffered 2,000 killed and wounded, plus 1,000 men and 7 guns captured. The Austrians lost 1,200 killed and wounded, with 300 captured. Charles pursued the beaten French, turning Jourdan's south flank and keeping between him and a second French army in southern Germany under Jean Moreau. In less than a week, Charles forced the French to lift the sieges of Mannheim and Mainz.[3] [edit] References
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