Battle of Diersheim (1797)
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| Battle of Diersheim (1797) | |||||||
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| Part of War of the First Coalition | |||||||
 General Duhesme at the Battle of Diersheim, by Charles Thévenin | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 French First Republic |
 Habsburg monarchy | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Jean Moreau |
Count Anton Sztáray | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| Army of the Rhine and Moselle | Army of the Upper Rhine | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 48,500-52,000[1] | 24,000-34,000[1] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 3,000[1] |
2,700 killed or wounded 2,000 captured 13 guns[1] | ||||||
The Battle of Diersheim (20–21 April 1797) saw a
Preliminaries of Leoben with Austria a few days earlier, calling for a truce. However, Moreau's reputation was enhanced by his hard-won victory which occurred during the War of the First Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars. Diersheim is one of a number of villages that make up the municipality of Rheinau. Diersheim lies one kilometer southwest of the Rhine River and about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) northeast of Kehl
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References
- Rickard, J. (2009). "Battle of Diersheim, 20-21 April 1797". historyofwar.org. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
- ISBN 1-85367-276-9.
- Smith, Digby; Kudrna, Leopold (2008). "A Biographical Dictionary of all Austrian Generals during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars 1792-1815: Sztáray de Nagy-Mihály et Sztára, Anton Graf". The Napoleon Series. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
- Bodart, Gaston (1908). Militär-historisches Kriegs-Lexikon (1618-1905). Wien und Leipzig, C. W. Stern.
48°39′N 7°53′E / 48.650°N 7.883°E
- ^ a b c d Bodart 1908, p. 322.