Battle of Biberach (1796)
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The Battle of Biberach was fought on 2 October 1796 between a French Republican army led by Jean Victor Marie Moreau and a Habsburg Austrian army led by Maximilian Anton Karl, Count Baillet de Latour.
Photo shows Biberach and the nearby rolling hills.
Archduke Charles
Jean Victor Moreau
Count Latour
Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
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Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, 1st Marquis of Gouvion-Saint-Cyr was a French military leader of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was a made a Marshal of the Empire in 1812 by E
Battle of Biberach (1796)
…Austrian soldiers. In the south, the Army of the Rhine and Moselle also marched east with its left wing led by Louis Desaix, its center commanded by Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, and its right wing under Pierre Marie Barthélemy Ferino. In the Battle of Neresheim on 11 August 1796, Archduke Charles lashed out at Moreau's army…
Portrait of Marshal Saint-Cyr by Horace Vernet, 1821
Laurent Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, captain in the 1st Battalion of Chasseurs of Paris in 1792, by Georges Rouget, 1835
Portrait by Jean-Urbain Guérin, 1801
Portrait by Charles-Aimé Forestier