What the records say
- When
- 14 Oct 1805
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 48.45° N, 10.09° E
- Description
- 1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
Battle of Elchingen
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
The Battle of Elchingen, fought on 14 October 1805, saw French forces under Michel Ney rout an Austrian corps led by Johann Sigismund Riesch. This defeat led to a large part of the Austrian army being invested in the fortress of Ulm by the army of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte of France while other formations fled to the east.
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- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In der Schlacht von Elchingen siegen die Franzosen unter Michel Ney über das österreichische Heer unter Karl Mack von Leiberich”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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