Battle of Amberg

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Battle of Amberg
Part of the French Revolutionary War
Date 24 August 1796 Location Amberg, Bavaria Result Austrian victory
Belligerents
First French Republic	Habsburg Austria
Commanders
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan	Archduke Charles Wilhelm von Wartensleben
Strength
34,000	40,000
Casualties and losses
2,000	400

The Battle of Amberg resulted in an Austrian victory under Archduke Charles of Austria against the French under General Jourdan.

Archduke Charles waited until the French generals had penetrated far from their base of operations, left 30,000 men under General Latour to watch Moreau, and hurried north with 27,000 to find Jourdan still pressing Wartensleben near Amberg. Charles struck the French right flank while Wartensleben attacked frontally. The French Army of Sambre-et-Meuse was overcome by weight of numbers and Jourdan retired. Charles went on to defeat both of the French armies in southern Germany and took the last French held stronghold on the east of the Rhine in the first weeks of 1797.

[edit] References

• Pope, Stephen. The Cassell Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars, Cassell (1999)

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