What the records say
- When
- 5 Jul 1796
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 48.85° N, 8.20° E
- Description
- 1796 battle of the War of the First Coalition
Battle of Rastatt (1796)
Battle of the War of the First Coalition
The Battle of Rastatt saw part of a Republican French army under Jean Victor Marie Moreau clash with elements of the Habsburg army under Maximilian Anton Karl, Count Baillet de Latour which were defending the line of the Murg River. Leading a wing of Moreau's army, Louis Desaix attacked the Austrians and drove them back to the Alb River in the War of the First Coalition action.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “битва при Раштатте”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page