Related content

• Action of 14 February 1795
• Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808)
• Anton von Elsnitz
• Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen
• Army of Rhin-et-Moselle
• Army of Sambre-et-Meuse
• Battle of Amberg
• Battle of Arlon (1793)
• Battle of Arlon (1794)
• Battle of Avesnes-le-Sec
• Battle of Bassano
• Battle of Beaumont (1794)
• Battle of Biberach (1796)
• Battle of Borghetto
• Battle of Boulou
• Battle of Caldiero (1796)
• Battle of Calliano
• Battle of Camperdown
• Battle of Castiglione
• Battle of Ceva
• Battle of Emmendingen
• Battle of Ettlingen
• Battle of Faenza
• Battle of Famars
• Battle of Fishguard
• Battle of Fleurus (1794)
• Battle of Fombio
• Battle of Friedberg
• Battle of Groix
• Battle of Hondshoote (1793)
• Battle of Jemappes
• Battle of Kaiserslautern
• Battle of Loano
• Battle of Lodi
• Battle of Lonato
• Battle of Mainz
• Battle of Martinique (1794)
• Battle of Millesimo
• Battle of Mondovì
• Battle of Montenotte
• Battle of Mouscron
• Battle of Méribel
• Battle of Neerwinden (1793)
• Battle of Neresheim
• Battle of Neuwied (1797)
• Battle of Peyrestortes
• Battle of Raismes (1793)
• Battle of Rivoli
• Battle of Rovereto
• Battle of San-Lorenzo de la Muga
• Battle of Saorgio
• Battle of Schliengen
• Battle of the Baztan Valley
• Battle of the Black Mountain
• Battle of the Bridge of Arcole
• Battle of the Vosges
• Battle of Tourcoing
• Battle of Tournay
• Battle of Truillas
• Battle of Valmy
• Battle of Verdun (1792)
• Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies
• Battle of Voltri
• Battle of Wattignies
• Battle of Würzburg
• Black Forest
• Brigadier General
• Capture of Fort-Dauphin (1794)
• Capture of San Pietro and Sant'Antioco
• Charles Eugene, Prince of Lambesc
• Digby Smith
• Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1771–1833)
• Düsseldorf
• Electorate of Bavaria
• Expédition d'Irlande
• Feldmarschall
• Feldmarschallleutnant
• Feldzeugmeister
• Festung Ehrenbreitstein
• First Battle of Dego
• First Battle of Wissembourg (1793)
• First French Republic
• Flanders Campaign
• France
• Frankfurt
• Franz von Werneck
• François Joseph Lefebvre
• Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
• French Revolutionary Wars
• Friedrich Freiherr von Hotze
• General-major
• Germany
• Glorious First of June
• Grenadier
• Gunther E. Rothenberg
• Habsburg Austria
• Habsburg Monarchy
• Holy Roman Empire
• Huningen
• Invasion of France (1795)
• Invasion of Guadeloupe (1794)
• Jean Victor Marie Moreau
• Jean Étienne Championnet
• Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
• Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
• Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein
• Johann Kollowrat
• Johann Sigismund Riesch
• Johann von Hiller
• Joseph von Schellenberg
• Karl Joseph Hadik von Futak
• Kehl
• Konrad Valentin von Kaim
• Lahn River
• Limburg an der Lahn
• Ludwig von Vogelsang
• Main (river)
• Mainz
• Maximilian Anton Karl, Count Baillet de Latour
• Michael von Kienmayer

Battle of Würzburg

The Battle of Würzburg was fought on 3 September 1796 between an army of Habsburg Austria led by Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen and an army of the First French Republic led by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan. The French attacked the archduke's forces, but they were resisted until the arrival of reinforcements decided the engagement in favor of the Austrians. The French retreated west toward the Rhine River. The action occurred during the War of the First Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars. Würzburg is 95 kilometres (59 mi) southeast of Frankfurt.

The summer of 1796 saw the two French armies of Jourdan and Jean Victor Marie Moreau advance into southern Germany. They were opposed by Archduke Charles who supervised two weaker Austrian armies commanded by Wilhelm von Wartensleben and Maximilian Anton Karl, Count Baillet de Latour. At the Battle of Amberg on 24 August, Charles managed to concentrate superior numbers against Jourdan, forcing him to withdraw. At Würzburg, Jourdan attempted a counterattack in a bid to halt his retreat. After his defeat, Charles forced Jourdan's army back to the Rhine. With his colleague in retreat, Moreau was isolated and compelled to abandon southern Germany.