What the records say
- When
- 5 May 1800
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 47.99° N, 9.11° E
- Description
- 1800 battle
Battle of Messkirch
Battle between France and Austria
The Battle of Messkirch saw a Republican French army led by Jean Victor Marie Moreau attack a Habsburg Austrian army commanded by Paul Kray. At the start of the 1800 campaign in Germany, Moreau's 108,000-strong field army faced Kray's 120,000-man army on opposite sides of the Rhine River.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Napoleon Bonaparte beginnt einen weiteren Italienfeldzug”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “4 et 5 mai : victoire française à la bataille de Moesskirch”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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