What the records say
- When
- 15 Jun 1796
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 50.57° N, 8.50° E
- Description
- 1796 battle of the War of the First Coalition
Battle of Wetzlar
Battle of the War of the First Coalition
The Battle of Wetzlar saw a Habsburg Austrian army led by Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen launch an attack on a Republican French army under Jean-Baptiste Jourdan in its defenses on the Lahn River. The War of the First Coalition action ended in an Austrian victory when most of the French army began retreating to the west bank of the Rhine River.
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- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In der Schlacht bei Wetzlar wird die französische Sambre-Maas-Armee unter Jourdan von den Österreichern unter Erzherzog Karl von Österreich geschlagen”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page