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The Battle of Würzburg
Part of the French Revolutionary Wars
Date 3 September 1796 Location Würzburg, present-day Germany Result Austrian victory
Belligerents
France	Austria
Commanders
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan	Archduke Charles

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.

[edit] The battle

The French army advanced against what they thought to be an isolated Austrian division under Sztaray. Jourdan's plan was to attack Sztaray with the divisions of Bernadotte and Championnet, with the divisions of Bonnard and Grenier in reserve. The early morning mist however enabled the Archduke Charles to bring up the division Hotze as a reinforcement to Sztaray, effectively undoing what Jourdan thought to be a great numerical superiority for the French.

Even more so as the division of Elsnitz was north of the battlefield tying up the much larger force under Lefebvre, which eventually didn't enter the battle and 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 Kray and Wartensleben arrived and drove the French of the field.

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