Battle of Biberach (1796)
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. The French army paused in its retreat toward the Rhine River to maul the pursuing Austrians. The action occurred during the War of the First Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars.
Photo shows Biberach and the nearby rolling hills.
Archduke Charles
Jean Victor Moreau
Count Latour
Jean Victor Marie Moreau was a French general who helped Napoleon Bonaparte rise to power, but later became his chief military and political rival and was banished to the United States. He is among the foremost French generals in military history.
Portrait by François Gérard, c. 1797
Moreau at the Battle of Hohenlinden
Eugénie Moreau (1781—1821)
Portrait of Jean Victor Marie Moreau